Route One Fun

Fun Along the Route 1 Corridor

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Best Kids’ Birthday Parties Near Route 1 Corridor

Looking for the best place to host your child’s birthday party near the Route 1 corridor this year? Route One Fun’s got you covered with our new Birthday Parties Guide! Check out this list of 17 (and counting) local places to host that awesome birthday party for your toddler, preschooler and older kids!

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Season’s Greenings Train Display at US Botanic Garden

The Season’s Greenings Train Display at the US Botanic Garden is still happening – but hurry! Now until Sunday, January 5, 2020, take the kids to check out this FREE model train show with pint-sized locomotives traveling up, down, around and through amazing plant-based recreations of iconic botanical gardens!

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ICE! with “The Mean One” at Gaylord National Resort

Thinking up things to do with the kids over winter break? Check out ICE! at Gaylord National Resort: an amazing 9-degree winter wonderland full of larger-than-life sculptures of Grinch and his crew! While there, have a blast sliding down 2 story tall tubing hills at Reindeer Rush Tubing, twirl like Johnny Weir at indoor ice skating in Winter Square and more!

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Local Ways to Give Back this Holiday Season

Searching for ways to give back this holiday season? We’ve got two great local drives for you along Route 1! Creative Saints Loft (just above Chez Dior) is running a toiletries drive benefiting homeless youth and Vigilante Coffee is accepting donations of canned and dry goods (at their Roastery) which will be donated to a local food bank.

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Winter Festival of Lights: Watkins Regional Park

Looking to bring a little twinkle to your holidays? Watkins Regional Park’s Winter Festival of Lights is a great, affordable and local drive-through event! Kids, adults, families – everyone loves the dazzling displays featuring more than 2.5 million lights throughout the park!

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Free Family Theatre at DC’s National Theatre

Hopping on the Metro with the kids and heading in to explore DC is one of the great benefits to living along the Route 1 Corridor. We recently did just so on a quest to check out “Saturday Morning at the National,” a live theatre series of free and interactive family programs at the National Theatre. Another great, indoor fun option for Route 1 Kids – with The Nutcracker coming up on Saturday, December 14th and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas on Saturday, December 21st.