After cataloguing the photos from my April 2025 bridge walking in Washington, DC,¹ I revisited the photos from my prior trips to the city and was surprised to find this wasn’t the first time I had walked a bridge across the Potomac River.

In May 2012, weeks after I had launched my bridge-walking career in London and days before I launched this blog, I was in Washington, DC, visiting my uncle. Based on my photos, I believe we rode the Metro and got off at the Crystal City stop. From there, we walked the Mount Vernon Trail passing over National Avenue/Smith Blvd by bridge and passing under the Long Bridge, Charles R. Fenwick Bridge, Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, 14th Street Bridge, and George Mason Memorial Bridge. We finished our bridge exploring by walking across the Potomac River on the George Mason Memorial Bridge.

1. Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge, Frederick Douglass Bridge, Anacostia River Canals, and C&O Canal ↩︎