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Capital Region

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Introduction

The nation’s seat of government. A wealth of museums. Verdant mountains and roaring rivers. Fishing and rafting. This is the Capital Region.

In the midsection of the East Coast sits the U.S. capital, stately Washington D.C. It’s especially beautiful in the spring, during cherry blossom season. The city’s cherry trees were a gift from the Japanese people in 1912.

Surrounding this power-driven city is an abundance of natural glories: the mountains, forests and rivers of Virginia and West Virginia, and the beaches of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. There are quaint fishing villages on the coast, bucolic mountain towns born when the railroads where first built and, here and there, large cities with rich histories. There are surprises around every curve in the road – and the roads are very, very curvy.


Capital Region

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