Help with directions to RFK Stadium, Washington DC
 

Hi there,

While in DC I am planning to take in a DC United soccer game at RFK Stadium. I understand that I can take the metro to the Stadium-Armory stop at 19th and East Capitol St. Then follow East Capitol St. to the stadium.

Can Forum members help and let me know how far it is to walk from the metro to the stadium. Also is it a safe area to walk with my 11 year old son.

Thanks

It is about a 1/4 mile from the Metro stop. You can see the stadium from at the top of the Metro entrance. Just follow the people, you can't miss it.

And the neighborhood between the Stadium and the Metro is quite safe.

The Metro stop is 300 yards from the stadium. Not only will there be your fellow fans to keep things safe as you walk to the stadium, expect several police to keep things safe in the RFK vicinity. In the daytime, the immediate neighborhood is quite safe. After dark, as a forty-five year resident of the Washington area, I would call the RFK neighborhood relatively safe. However, at RFK, you are within a half-mile striking distance of the crime-plagued Benning Road area (one of it's intersections is nicknamed 21st and Vietnam) and over the Anacostia River from RFK are some of the most crime-infested neighborhoods in the city of Washington. When you are visiting Washington, you aren't stolling through Crab Apple Cover, Maine, that's for sure!

Crab Apple Cove, Maine, actually had a pretty high crime rate when you consider "Murder, She Wrote" was based there. <g>