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Share Hotel Zena's rooftop pool features a glowing Venus statue at one end. Photo courtesy of Hotel Zena. Logan Circle This Viceroy hotel, hung with art honoring women, has a rooftop pool with chaises and private cabanas—a mural celebrating fertility by local artist Rose Jaffe adorns one cabana. A glowing, six-foot-tall Venus presides at one end of the rooftop. The InterContinental’s rooftop pool looks down upon the Wharf. Photo by Mark DeLong, courtesy of the InterContinental. DC Wharf You’ll get great river views not only from this modern hotel’s guest rooms, but also from the roo...

Share So guests can social-distance, the Homestead is booking half its rooms. Photograph of pool courtesy of Homestead. Resorts can be very big places, with hundreds of travelers from all over—not necessarily ideal in the time of Covid. Yet avoiding people at resorts may be easier than you’d think these days. Properties are not only limiting the number of guests—at Virginia’s  Omni Homestead, they’re booking about half the rooms—but also limiting how many people are allowed at one time into facilities such as fitness centers. At Virginia’s  Wintergreen, pool capacity at pr...

4 Hotels and Resorts Within Driving Distance of DC That Have Opened or Revamped Since Covid Began Quirk of Fate Quirk Charlottesville’s timing could not have been worse: The hotel opened in March 2020. The 80-room hotel, blocks from the town’s lively pedestrian mall, features art and even headboards by local artists, plus a rooftop bar with mountain views.  Distance from DC: 116 miles. Naval Architecture Two Naval Academy graduates are behind 134 Prince, an elegantly refurbished boutique hotel in Annapolis’s historic district. The 1849 building houses five guest suites, with luxe bat...

10 Ideas for Getaways That Get You Out on the Water Around Washington, DC Boats, tubing, lakes, and waterfronts. Adjacent to a federal refuge for bald eagles,  Mason Neck State Park in Lorton offers beautiful vistas and chances to spot not only those majestic birds but al-so swans, turtles, and other wildlife, from a rented canoe or kayak. See dcr.virginia.gov.  Distance from DC: 27 miles. Take a Sunset Sail Woodwind and  Woodwind II in Annapolis are replicas of wooden schooners built in the early 1900s. Relax while cruising across Annapolis Harbor and looking back at the city as the s...

Sandy Point State Park On this mile-long beach near Annapolis, you can gaze out onto the Chesapeake—and smugly watch traffic crawl on the Bay Bridge heading to and from the ocean. See dnr.maryland.gov.  Distance from DC: 40 miles. Flag Ponds Nature Park Prehistoric sharks’ teeth and other fossils await on the beach at Flag Ponds. This Southern Maryland beach is nirvana for fossil hunters, who comb the sand and surf for prehistoric sharks’ teeth. Go to calvertparks.org/fpp.html.  Distance from DC: 53 miles. Gunpowder Falls State Park The park’s Hammer-man Area has a 1,500-foot-long...