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[quote=Anonymous]This is not going to be the best year to visit Mount Vernon: https://www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit See Closures at the bottom.

For Washington Monument tickets, I think it's 30 days in advance (but verify). On the day you're trying to get tickets make sure you already have a recreation.gov account and are logged in and sitting on the choose dates page a few minutes before 10:00 a.m. I had the second hand showing on my phone and refreshed my computer browser over and over right before 10:00 a.m. Tickets go extremely fast. If you don't get one, you can try again after 15 (I think?) minutes to get some that others let expire in their cart. If you don't succeed at that, the release some tickets the day before, also at 10:00. Getting group tickets is sometimes easier, so that's in your favor. Or failing all of that, you can stand in the line early in the morning for same-day tickets, but you have to be there like an hour or more early, I've heard. You can get only 6 tickets per person, so you may need more than one person to stand there, depending on how large your group is.

Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office museum is near the Portrait Gallery and Fords Theater. It's pretty small, you can just walk in and ask them for a tour on weekends or look around yourself. It's cool because they didn't know what the building was when it was going to be torn down in the 1990s (? if not then, then around then, way after the War) and they found her stuff in the attic and decided to restore it instead. It's not open during the week, unless you have 10 people and want to make a reservation: https://clarabartonmuseum.org/[/quote]

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