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The National Landing BID launched a public-awareness campaign Tuesday about Route 1, the highway that cuts Crystal City off from Pentagon City in Arlington. The campaign is called “People Before Cars” and includes a familiar urbanist wish list: More bike lanes, wider sidewalks, and, perhaps most important, narrower lanes and slower driving speeds. Such desires […]

The Eunice Williams Covered Bridge marks the site where the life of a young mother was abruptly cut short, just hours after the Deerfield Massacre. Nowadays, legend holds that Mrs. Williams never left the place she died. The Eunice Williams Covered Bridge stretches over the Green River. Bethany Bourgault It was still dark on the morning of February 29, 1704, when 300 warriors from the French Army and their allies from the Abenaki and Mohawk tribes crept into Deerfield. The French and British were fighting Queen Anne’s War for control of the continent. The little New England town barely knew what...

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The lockdowns last March nearly spelled doom for Joe Squared, a pizzeria and music venue in Baltimore’s arts district. The popular eatery already had some outstanding debts from a recent expansion; all of a sudden it had to curtail its hours and shut its dining room. General Manager Okan Arabacioğlu recalls frantically trying to make the numbers work with owner Joe Edwardsen, but they decided they couldn’t sacrifice the quality of the coal-fired pizza or the living wage they paid employees. “So at that point,” Arabacioğlu says, “we were like, let’s wrap it up.” Joe’s closed its doors for the...

The New River Gorge has long been a hub for outdoor adventure in the Mountain State. Its 72,000 acres, now protected as a national park and preserve, center on a 1,000-foot-deep gorge that runs for 53 miles and is home to world-class whitewater rafting, some of the best rock climbing on the eastern seaboard, and purpose-built singletrack designed for mountain biking. “You don’t find this kind of adventure diversity in other national parks,” says Lizzie Watts, the park’s superintendent. Ready to check out this gem for yourself? Here’s our guide to making the most of your time in and around...