The Mall is about 1 mile long and 1000 feet wide with gravel paths, lawns & water features down the center. The edges are full of Smithsonian buildings for Air & Space (amazing), American History (closed), American Indian (missed), Natural History (boring), etc. etc all w/more than you can see in a lifetime. The north end of the Mall is the Capitol and on the south is the Washington Monument standing 500 feet tall. We got to go on a tour to the top (neat). Behind that are the memorials: the Lincoln Memorial, World War II, Vietnam, Jefferson & such. I was able to find the name of Raymond Moon, a young man from Bluffdale, who died when I was a teen in the Vietnam War.
Somewhere in the maze is the White House, which forms a triangle with the Capitol and the Washington Monument. There is huge security around it & if anyone even looks remotely cross eyed, says ‘Oh shoot’ or forgets to bring their proof of residency they will close all the roads & sidewalks leading to it for an hour while sirens blare & we all swear.
It is definitely not a place you would want to spend a lot of time hanging around at.
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