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The Clara Barton Parkway is a highway in Washington, D.C. and neighboring Montgomery County, Maryland. It is administratively part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. It was signed as the George Washington Memorial Parkway until 1989, when it was renamed to avoid motorist confusion.[1] It is named in honor of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.
The parkway's eastern terminus is in the District of Columbia, where the parkway connects with Canal Road and Chain Bridge. Its western terminus is at MacArthur Boulevard in the Potomac area of Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside the Capital Beltway. The parkway provides access to Glen Echo Park and the Clara Barton National Historic Site in Glen Echo, Maryland. The parkway connects to the Capital Beltway via a partial interchange and also via the Cabin John Parkway (administered by the Maryland State Highway Administration). The parkway includes an overhanging bridge near Glen Echo.
Planned connection
The parkways on each side of the Potomac River were originally supposed to be joined by a bridge at the Great Falls. However, opposition from preservationists led to the cancellation of that bridge. Instead, traffic between the two parkways uses the American Legion Bridge of the Capital Beltway. The Virginia side of the river at Great Falls is managed by the superintendent of the parkway as a national park, known as Great Falls Park. Some elements of the proposed final parkway configuration were built but have never been used, such as the concrete bridge that would have carried northbound traffic at the Glen Echo turnaround. It remains in place over the roadway, but its surface is covered by grass and it connects only to a wooded area along MacArthur Boulevard.
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