A Walk Around the Tidal Basin

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Washington THE MALL WWII Monument 14TH ST. Reflecting Pool Mem. 17TH ST.

Lincoln Memorial 0 500 JEFFERSON DR. Sylvan FEET eater 15TH ST. Korean War Veterans Memorial D.C. WWI AVE. Memorial Tidal INDEPENDENCE INDEPENDENCE AVE. Basin INDEPENDENCE AVE. Japanese Stone KUTZ MEMORIAL BRIDGE 2 Lantern Holocaust

Martin Luther King Jr. First 3 RAOUL WALLENBERG PL. Museum National Memorial 4 1. Tidal Basin M Plantings A I N Welcome Tent: Site of E

5 A V select events and festival information. 2. Kutz Tidal Basin E C ST. . West Potomac . Welcome R Memorial Bridge: Named in 1954 to honor the man who D Park Tent Bureau of N I S wrote the District’s first zoning law. Japanese Stone Engraving A 3. 1 B

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S Lantern: e lighting of this lantern has ocially opened the E Printing W festival since 1954. 4. First Plantings: Plaques mark the first D ST. cherry trees planted here in 1912. 5. Photo Op: One of the best vantage points to photograph the blossoms. 6. Usuzumi Trees: Paddle is species is the oldest living flowering cherry tree; blossoms Boathouse are propagations from a 1,500-year-old tree in Japan. 6 7. Inlet Bridge: In 1999, beavers became unwanted participants FDR in the festival when they chomped into trees about 100 yards Memorial A walk around before the bridge. 8. Je erson Memorial: e location of this Japanese the Tidal Basin Pagoda memorial created controversy when more than 1,000 cherry trees were removed for its construction in 1937. 1 9 Outlet S M T W T F S 9. Indicator Tree: Indicator Bridge Tree MARCH 12 13 14 15 16 is cherry blooms about a week earlier Washington 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 OHIO DR. . Channel than the others, R D

N I 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 signaling that the S A B P T o peak period is 8 S 31 t A Peak bloom o E m near. Jeerson APRIL prediction a Memorial 395 c 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 R i Inlet v Bridge 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 e r RAILROAD George Mason 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Memorial Cherry Blossom Festival March 20–April 14 395

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