Visitors enter on the Constitution Avenue side. The closet Metro stop is the National Archives. Best known of more than one hundred cemeteries in the United States, Arlington's green slopes shelter veterans from every war that has involved the Nation. Over 225,000 servicemen and their family members rest on the 612 acres of Virginia land across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial. About 18 burials are conducted every weekday.
Admission is free.
The Arlington Cemetery Metro stop will take you to the Visitor's Center. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Amphitheater, the Curtis-Lee Mansion and the graves of President John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft are all located in the cemetery. The Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier occurs every half hour during the summer months and every hour during the other months. After many years in the making, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial joined the memorials of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln as chief U.S. tributes to these four great American leaders. The Memorial site in Washington, DC, is located at one of the points designated for such a monument by the 1901 McMillan Plan.