THE 2025 DC TWEED RIDE DETAILS ARE BELOW!
The 2025 DC Tweed Ride takes place this Sunday with a point-to-point route unlike any we’ve had in past years. Our route is just under ten miles! It will include breathtakingly beautiful fall foliage in Rock Creek Park, take us over the park via the William Howard Taft Bridge for more wonderful views, wind through a wee bit of the Kalorama and Dupont neighborhoods, before delivering us onto the oh so charming and historic streets of Georgetown.
Our meet-up is at 11AM at The Great Lawn at Reeds Park in Washington DC. Ride Begins at 12PM.
Reeds Park is just over a mile from the Takoma Metro Station. (Google Route Link.) There’s a Whole Foods Market at Walter Reed just by the lawn (Great for pre-ride treats, coffee, garage parking & bathrooms)
Our route will end in Georgetown on the Grounds of Grace Episcopal Church for lounging with live jazz performance by Hot Club de Sampoodle and dancing with Fidgety Feet as the sun sets.
For folks coming in from out of town, we suggest parking in the garage by the AMC Movie Theater in Georgetown and riding over to Dupont Circle to take the Red Line to the Takoma Metro Station (one mile from our start.) You'll be by your car at the end of the ride and won't exhaust yourself in the morning with cycling uphill to the starting point.
Note: We changed our draft route due to the closed bike trail area on the National Zoo grounds. We’ll come out of Rock Creek Park on the most beautifully scenic climb ever in the history of the DC Tweed Ride! It’ll be amazing and worth every pedal stroke.
Our final 2025 DC Tweed Ride Route is below:
About D&Q
Dandies & Quaintrelles seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere in 2009 with the launch of the first Tweed Ride set in the nation’s capital.
Over the years, the group's formal structure and official intentions have remained shrouded in mystery. The group leads bespoked cyclists through the streets twice a year.
Spring inspires a leisurely smile-filled parade of cyclists clad in Seersucker, breezy linens, and the like.
Every fall brings a day of a tweed-filled dreamscape of vintage bikes, tilted caps, fancy hosiery, and such.
