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Share Take your new pandemic bike for a historic ride on the Virginia Capital Trail. Photograph courtesy of Virginia Department of Transportation 26 miles, out and back This 10-foot-wide, 13-mile paved trail in Southern Maryland passes through wetlands and the Mattawoman Creek stream valley, so you may spot bald eagles, turtles, deer, and other wildlife. Covered Bridges Ride 39.8-mile loop This ride in the countryside of Maryland’s Frederick County features a slew of water crossings—including on three covered wooden bridges. For directions, download the Heritage Bicycle Tours brochure,...

Share Carfax, a 2019 Great Places to Work winner, has a work-hard/play-hard culture that includes allowing dogs in the office. Photograph by Dan Chung. Has your company treated employees well during the Covid-19 pandemic? Think your company could be one of Washington’s best places to work? Washingtonian publishes its Great Places to Work feature every other year; the next list is scheduled to be published in our October 2021 issue. The Great Places to Work contest is open to any company or nonprofit as long as it has an office in the greater Washington area. There is no cost to participat...

Nationals Ballpark last season. Photo by Evy Mages After a 2020 season during which Major League Baseball games were played in fan-less stadiums, it’s great that about 10,000 spectators (25 percent of the park’s capacity) are now allowed into Nationals Park for each home game—with the hope that capacity may increase as conditions allow. Reopening to fans, of course, took a lot of planning and the implementation of new safety protocols. Before the season started, the Nats announced all the changes fans would see—not just having to wear masks and sit in socially distanced pods, but also...

Share The Bluebell Trail at Bull Run Regional Park is peaking this week. Photo by Marjorie O'Brien. The cherry blossoms have largely faded, but that doesn’t mean your Instagram feed won’t still be sprinkled over the coming days with people posing themselves, their kids, and their pets against a backdrop of flowers. Enter the bluebell. If you haven’t had enough of a spring-flower fix, consider a trip to Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, where the Bluebell Trail should be peaking within the week. The 1.5-mile loop trail is surrounded almost its entire length by a carpet of the deli...

Photo courtesy of Rudee Tours Here’s a type of pod to get excited about: January and February are traditionally the best months to see migrating whales off the shore of Virginia Beach. And some whale-watching boats this winter have been spotting the giant creatures almost every day they go out. “We can’t guarantee wildlife and what they will do, but I can tell you that over the past four weeks, we have had close to 100 percent, if not 100 percent, sightings of whales,” says Michael Mizell, the boat coordinator at the Virginia Aquarium, which will run two-and-a-half-hour whale-watchin...