Gaylord

Gaylord National, the new landmark in DC Greater Metropolitan Area. It is on the Maryland shore of Potomac, in the PG County near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Alexandria is on the other side.

It is a huge construction, a resort and convention center with an enormous atrium that is a whole world on its own: tropical gardens, fancy boutiques, elegant restaurants, everything closed by a huge glass and metal structure, window and ceiling, and by the elevators, escalators and terraces leading to the upper floors of various hotels, ballrooms and conference halls. All very Americana.




To get there, I took a water taxi from Alexandria: it crossed the river in twenty minutes.

I saw two years ago the Gaylord from Texas, in Dallas/Fort Worth are: it was incomparably larger; they had there inside the atrium a river and a railroad! But Texas lives on another sizes.

• The Atrium Viewed from the Ballrooms Terrace
• The Atrium
• Photo of the Day - June 4, 2008
• Crossing Potomac from Alexandria to Gaylord
• Winter Wonderland in Gaylord
  

(Washington, District of Columbia)