Places to Explore

• Accokeek

  By fighting off developers in the 1950s, the Accokeek Foundation helped keep the view from Mount Vernon as George Washington would have seen it. Today the once-rural area is being developed into a suburban... (more)

• Bowie

  Bowie started as a few buildings around a railroad junction in 1870, but has grown into the largest municipality in Prince George's County and the home of Bowie State University, a historically black college... (more)

• Clinton

  The origin of the name Clinton is unclear—the town used to be called Surrattsville for Mary Surratt's husband, the postmaster John Surratt.... (more)

• College Park

  As its name implies, College Park is primarily a university town on gently rolling terrain.... (more)

• Largo

  Largo is an entertainment hub of suburban Maryland, boasting both Six Flags America as well as FedEx Field, where DC's popular Redskins play.... (more)

• Laurel

  Three other Maryland counties claim a section of this town (Anne Arundel, Howard, and Montgomery) but most of the suburb is in Prince George's.... (more)

• National Harbor

  The National Harbor sprawls across 300 acres of the previously abandoned banks of the Potomac River across from Old Town Alexandria. Although it is still in development and construction is to be expected... (more)