Your tour begins when you hop on at any of the convenient trolley stops throughout the city. Then sit back and relax as your expert driver and guide takes you on a narrated tour through the city. See and learn about the city's highlights, like the world's tallest obelisk, the Washington Monument, and the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Your tour through Washington, DC allows you to stop and spend more time at sights like the Smithsonian Castle or the U.S. Botanical Gardens, which was established in 1820 and is one of the oldest botanical gardens in North America.
Your Washington, DC trolley tour will also take you through the National Mall, where you can get up close to the Lincoln Memorial and climb all 87 steps to the top. You can also explore the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which was dedicated in 2011.
Your tour also includes a shuttle to the Arlington National Cemetery. Your Arlington National Cemetery tour will take you through the cemetery to several important memorials, including President John F. Kennedy's Grave Site, the U.S. Coast Guard Memorial, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Book this Washington DC tour today to see the capital city at your own pace.
Please Note: There are 25 stops on this route on weekends and 22 stops on weekdays, and it takes approximately 3 hours to complete the route without getting off. The trolley runs every 30 minutes. The route visits 3 stops in the Arlington National Cemetery (indicated by an asterisk *) on weekends only. A shuttle operates between the Lincoln Memorial stop and the Arlington National Cemetery to continue the route through the cemetery. Guests who would prefer not to take the cemetery tour may stay on the trolley, which will proceed to the National Museum of American History stop. The tours are narrated in English. Tours in other languages are available on a foreign language tour app. The languages included in the app are Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese.
The route includes the following stops:
- Washington Welcome Center / Ford's Theatre / Peterson House / Madam Tussauds Wax Museum
- The White House / The White House Visitor Center
- National Archives / U.S. Navy Memorial
- Union Station / Smithsonian Postal Museum
- U.S. Capitol / Supreme Court / Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Air & Space Museum / Museum of the American Indian / U.S. Botanical Gardens
- Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art / Smithsonian Castle
- Holocaust Memorial Museum / Bureau of Engraving & Printing / Washington Monument
- Jefferson Memorial / George Mason Memorial
- FDR Memorial / Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial / Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Korean War Veterans Memorial / World War II Memorial / Transfer for Arlington National Cemetery Shuttle
- Arlington National Cemetery Welcome Center
- President John F. Kennedy Grave Site
- U.S. Coast Guard Memorial
- Pershing Grave Site
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Arlington House
- Iwo Jima Memorial
- Sections 55 and 59*
- Columbarium and Niche Wall*
- 9/11 Memorial*
- National Museum of American History / National Museum of African American History & Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- Newseum / National Gallery of Art
- National Portrait Gallery / African Art Museum / Spy Museum
*Please be advised that these stops operate on weekends only.
