D.C. road and Metro closures for inauguration weekend 2025
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President-elect Trump will be sworn in Monday, and many D.C. roads and Metro stations are closing in the days leading up to the inauguration.
Why it matters: There will be 327 traffic closures for the event from Saturday through Tuesday, plus Metro changes — meaning you should plan your trips accordingly.
🚗 Roads
Most of the roads surrounding George Washington University, the White House, the National Mall and the memorials, Chinatown, and the Capitol will be either closed or restricted to local traffic only.
- It's a huge list — 126 roads will be closed completely, and 95 open to local traffic only. There will be 106 roads closed to parking. See all the closures here.
Plus: Several roads around the National Cathedral and the Naval Observatory will be either closed to traffic or restricted to local traffic only on Tuesday.
- There will be several highway exit closures on 1-395/I-695 from Sunday through Tuesday, too.
🚇 Metro
The following Metrorail stations will be closed from Sunday at 8pm until Tuesday at 5am: Archives, Federal Triangle, Mt Vernon Square, McPherson Square, and Smithsonian.
- On Monday only: The Pentagon station will be closed.
- Some of the entrances at the Metro Center, Farragut West, Gallery Place-Chinatown, Union Station and Judiciary Square stations will be closed across Sunday and Monday.
Metro will open at 4am on Monday and run until midnight. There will be enhanced service between 6am and 8pm.
- Yellow Line service will be extended to Greenbelt.
🚌 Bus
The following Metrobus routes will undergo detours from Saturday until Tuesday:
- 3F, 3Y, 7A, 10A, 11Y, 16A, 16C, 16E, 16Y, 22A, 38B, 31, 32, 33, 36, 42, 43, 52, 54, 59, 64, 70, 74, 79, 80, 96, D4, D6, D8, G8, L2, N6, P6, S2, S9, X2, X8, X9.