Cache Across the Avenues, DC Edition: New Hampshire Ave.
The CAA (Cache Across the Avenues) DC Edition: This is a series of caches that will take you on a caching tour of all four quadrants of the District of Columbia. One cache will be hidden on each of the 50 State Avenues (actually 48 Avenues + a Street and a Drive). These caches each contain a code word that will lead you to one final cache (to be placed) located in our nation's capitol upon completion of the series. We will be publishing these caches in batches of five.
About this cache: The cache is located on New Hampshire Ave. in the neighborhood of Dupont Circle. From the cache, you can view the stately Perry Belmont House, built in 1907.
Length of Avenue: 4.7 miles
Rank in Size: Tied for 8th (along with Rhode Island Ave.)
Quadrants: NW
Facts about the Avenue:
- It is the western most avenue in L'enfant's original plan.
- New Hampshire Ave. is a non-continuous avenue.
- It begins at F St NW in Foggy Bottom outside the Kennedy Center and continues to 15th Street NW and Florida Avenue NW in Columbia Heights. A second section, parallel to Kansas Avenue, runs from Park Road NW in Columbia Heights to Eastern Avenue NE in Lamond Riggs, where it continues as Maryland State Route 650.
- The southern section is 1.9 miles, and the northern section has 2.8 miles.
- New Hampshire Ave. continues into Maryland with the same name, where it runs for an additional 20+ miles.