Whether you’re going alone, with family, and friends, or planning to use a road, trail, or sidewalk, we’re committed to helping you explore Arlington with confidence.

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-Experience Rosslyn
-Explore Courthouse
-Columbia Pike
-Public Art in Rosslyn
-Ballston Reinvented

Walk & Maps

Run Rosslyn - 6.18 Miles

Run Courthouse to Memorial Bridge - 6.13 Miles

Run Courthouse to Roosevelt Island - 3.56 Miles

Bon Air Park features a beautiful memorial rose garden that features more than 120 different varieties of roses and is often a chosen location for weddings. The Arlington Rose Foundation serves as partner to advise and to help promote planting. Enjoy the azalea, shade, sun and ornamental tree gardens. Master Gardeners of Arlington maintain sun and shade gardens to use as teaching tools for local gardeners.

This expansive 24-acre park also includes playgrounds, picnic areas with charcoal grills and a path. Before your next park outing, learn whether or not your dog should play in the stream.

Walk Bon Air Park

This beautiful 19-acre site includes a Visitors Center, lush tree canopy, an open meadow, the lovely Hendry House and preserved earthworks of the Civil War fort built in 1863, and many other outstanding features.

The earthwork ruins at this park are the best preserved ruins of the 22 forts that were located in Arlington during the Civil War. The ruins include the bomb proof, the fort well, the North magazine, and 11 of the 22 gun emplacements.

There is a 1/2 mile of trails on this 19 acre site. The trails are of a variety of surfaces including asphalt, mulch, concrete and gravel. Enjoy a stroll on the grounds while observing wildlife, open space and historic features as outlined on interpretive signage throughout the grounds.

Walk Fort C.F Smith - 19 Acre

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-Bluemont Junction Trail
-Trail at Dawson Terrace Park
-Trail at Donaldson Run Park
-Trail at Fort C. F. Smith Park
-Four Mile Run Trail
-Trail at Glencarlyn Park & Long Branch Nature Center
-Trail at Gulf Branch Park & Nature Center
-Trail at Lacey Woods Park
-Trail at Lubber Run Park
-Mt. Vernon Trail
-Trail at Rock Spring Park
-Trail at Thrifton Hills Park
-Trail at Tuckahoe Park
-Washington & Old Dominion Trail
-Trail at Windy Run Park
-Trail at Zachary Taylor Park

Paved, Multi-use Trails:
Keep right and pass on the left.
Give an audible warning before passing.
Pedestrians have the right of way.
E-scooters, e-bikes, scooters, and regular bikes are allowed on the trails.
Control your speed.
Obey traffic rules and signs
When stopping, move off the trail.
Keep dogs on a short leash.
Use lights and reflectors when it’s dark.
Natural Trails:
Always keep dogs on a leash.
No power-driven devices.
Stay on designated paths, no bushwacking.
No bicycles.
Do not pick vegetation.
Do not remove natural objects.
Do not approach wildlife.
Take only pictures, and leave only footprints.

17 Arlington Trails

This 24-acre park features a paved walking trail, the retired Bluemont Junction Caboose, casual-use space and a Bermuda grass rectangular athletic field (permit takes priority).

Walk Bluemont Junction Park

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All Age Free Bike Routes 

The Arlington Loop can take you almost anywhere in Arlington. Get to know this 16 mile connection of trails that is the center piece of the Arlington bike network.

If you have ridden a bike in Arlington, there is a good chance that you have ridden at least part of what is known as the Arlington Loop. The Loop is a 16-mile series of trails traveling through the central and southern areas of Arlington, made up of segments of the Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD), Custis, Mt. Vernon and Four Mile Run trails.



Bike Arlington Loop - 16 Miles

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Arlington has a great low-stress street grid to give you other places to move if the trails are too crowded.

Explore these routes on non-trail, low-stress, and low-volume corridors for your essential travel and exercise. Bonus: This knowledge of the on-street network will help you bike around Arlington anytime!

Outdoor Fitness