plan to spend some time along the Tidal Basin, an approximately 107-acre pond encircled by a 2.1-mile loop trail. Constructed to use the strong tides of the Potomac River to clear silt from the ...

Peak bloom occurs when 70% of the blossoms of the Yoshino cherry trees, the most common type along the Tidal Basin, are open.

Traffic’s bad enough on a good day in D.C., so all of the enormous concrete caps, and the stone cladding, being brought up the Potomac River by barge and transported to the Tidal Basin.