Williamsburg vs. Monticello?

soccerguy315
Sat, 06 May 2006 23:46:11 +0000

The trip to Williamsburg from DC should be no more than 3 hours, assuming no bad traffic. I can usually make it one way (to/from Reston, I95 to 123 to Fairfax Co Pkway) in around 2:15, maybe slightly longer. It usually takes my parents about 2:45 without traffic. The longest my trip has been was returning to school the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and other than that, I believe it was 4.5 hours once (and I’ve made a fair number of trips in my 2 years at W&M). The trip is consistently at 3 hours or under. As you probably know (if you’re from the DC area), I95 will backup going south in the afternoon. Southbound is always backed up [to past where the HOV lanes come back in) when I come home on Friday afternoons after 4.

When I came back to school on April 24th (at like 8:35ish), there were extra unmarked police cars right before the exit to get on 295 around Richmond, and an there was one either on 295 or I64, I forget, so keep your eyes out for those =)

as others have said, make sure you get tickets to what you want to see in Williamsburg ahead of time (and Monticello too). If you’ll be there on the weekend, I can tell you that the weekends are pretty crowded already (I run through colonial williamsburg all the time, this morning I ran on back roads without people instead). I highly recommend a ghost tour.

If you are indeed doing what my-3-sons thinks you might be, then I would agree with that poster.