Directions from Southern Virginia

Take Route 395, heading north. You’ll pass the Pentagon on your left. As you cross over the Potomac River into Washington, D.C., stay in the two left lanes to get onto 14th Street (Route 1).

You’ll pass the Mall, with the Washington Monument to your left and the U.S. Capitol Building on your far right. The cross streets will be letters of the alphabet, in alphabetical order as you head north. Turn left onto K Street.

At 17th Street, move into the right service lane and at the next block turn right onto Connecticut Avenue.

Take the underpass under Dupont Circle and continue north on Connecticut for several miles. The cross streets will change, as you travel northward, from single letters in alphabetical order, to two-syllable streets in alphabetical order, to three-syllable streets. The third three-syllable cross street is Chesapeake (after Albemarle and Brandywine).

Turn right onto Chesapeake Street. CMC is three blocks in, on your right, past the ballfield. Go just past CMC to turn into the parking lot, which runs around the building in a clockwise direction. You may also park on the street, if the lot is full.