page_title: George Washington Memorial Parkway
section_title: Previously proposed connection
hierarchical_section_title: George Washington Memorial Parkway / History / Previously proposed connection
caption_attribution_description: English: George Washington Memorial Parkway near Rosslyn, Virginia, in the United States. The Potomac River is at the right. The Three Sisters, rocky islets in the Potomac River, can also be seen.
context_page_description: The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, is a 25-mile-long parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Service. It is located almost entirely within Virginia, except for a short portion of the parkway northwest of the Arlington Memorial Bridge that passes over Columbia Island within the District of Columbia.
  The parkway is separated into two sections joined by Washington Street in Alexandria. A third section, which is the Clara Barton Parkway, runs on the opposite side of the Potomac River in the District of Columbia and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. A fourth section was originally proposed for Fort Washington, Maryland, but never built. The parkway has been designated an All-American Road.
  Virginia's official state designation for the parkway is State Route 90005.
context_section_description: The Clara Barton Parkway is administratively part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. It was signed and designated as the George Washington Memorial Parkway until 1989, when it was renamed to overcome motorist confusion with the main segment in Virginia.
  The parkways on the two sides of the river were originally supposed to be joined by a bridge at the Great Falls of the Potomac River. However, opposition from preservationists led to the cancellation of that bridge.  Instead, traffic between the two parkways uses the American Legion Bridge downstream. The Virginia side of the Potomac River at Great Falls is managed by the Superintendent of the parkway as a national park site, known as Great Falls Park.  Some elements of the proposed final parkway configuration—such as the concrete bridge that would have carried northbound traffic at the Glen Echo turn-around—were built but have never been used.
caption: Northern section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Arlington, Virginia
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