Worth the trip around Washington, DC
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
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Washington's monuments are the point, 34 within 25 km, the Washington Monument 0.6 km from the center, the Lincoln Memorial at 1.4 km, the Jefferson Memorial at 1.5 km. Less obvious: the ring of forts, Fort Stevens Park at 7.7 km, Fort Foote (1863) on the Potomac at 14.2 km, Fort Marcy and Fort de Russy as archaeological sites, and Peirce Mill, a watermill from 1829 in Rock Creek Park at 5.2 km.
Great Falls at 21.9 km is the one waterfall people know; Scott's Run Falls and Stubblefield Falls at 16 km are the quieter pair. The US Capitol East Gatehouse and West Gatehouse stand 0.4 km from the center, and Jones Point Lighthouse at 11.6 km and Fort Washington Light are the two lights. The Mall alone fills a good few tiles.
Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Washington, DC.
Few places to many
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
