Travel do's and don'ts for DC cherry blossom season amid peak blooms: 'Pack your patience'

The cherry blossom trees successful Washington, D.C., officially reached highest bloom connected Saturday, with travelers and tourists from acold and wide flocking to the nation’s superior for a close-up view.

Mike Litterst, spokesperson for the National Park Service and its National Mall and Memorial Parks, told Fox News Digital that 70% of the trees astir the tidal basin are successful blossom. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)

Just however agelong the trees enactment successful bloom, said Litterst, is precise overmuch babelike connected the weather.

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"We've got immoderate truly lukewarm temperatures close now," said Litterst. 

It was successful the "80s today, [will beryllium successful the] 70s the adjacent 2 days, rain, possibly a thunderstorm coming," helium added. "All of that is simply a look for a shorter highest bloom, due to the fact that the warmer temperatures volition velocity the leaves, replacing the blossoms."

Cherry blossom trees successful Washington, D.C., scope highest bloom arsenic travelers from each implicit the globe flock to the nation's capital. Above, a country connected Saturday, March 29, 2025.  (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital )

Each twelvemonth the metropolis hosts the National Cherry Blossom Festival, celebrating the blossoming of the trees that were talented from Japan to this state successful 1912.

The blossoms mostly past for 4 weeks.

Litterst said it's ever a large clip of twelvemonth erstwhile the D.C. blossoms deed their highest bloom time.

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About 1.5 cardinal radical question to D.C. during the festival each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

"This year, especially, it coincides with the Blossom Kite Festival connected the Washington Monument grounds, and it's the location crippled for the Washington Nationals, truthful it has brought a batch of radical to downtown D.C. today," said Litterst connected Saturday.

Mike Litterst with the National Park Service said it's ever a large clip of twelvemonth erstwhile D.C.'s cherry blossoms deed highest bloom. (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital)

Litterst said that NPS does the champion it tin to hole — but determination are besides a fewer things travelers tin support successful mind.

"We ever promote people, don't thrust — instrumentality [the] Metro erstwhile you can. Most of the roads and the infrastructure present were designed backmost successful the 1930s and 1940s, and there's h2o connected each sides."

He advised, "You ever privation to battalion your patience, nary substance however you're coming down here, due to the fact that it is going to instrumentality you longer to get from constituent A to constituent B than you're thinking."

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Fox News Digital besides spoke with visitors this play who traveled to Washington to drawback the highest blooms. 

A radical of 3 friends said they were each visiting from Pennsylvania.

"The trees are beautiful, but it's busy," said 1 woman. 

A radical of 3 friends said they were each visiting from Pennsylvania. "The trees are beautiful, but it's busy," 1 of them said.   (Joshua Comins/Fox News Digital)

Another pistillate said the blossoms are "gorgeous."

"There's a batch of people. We were not expecting that many," said the husband.

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His woman added that radical came "to instrumentality a batch of pictures, due to the fact that everybody's crowding you and cipher lets you adjacent get a representation in. But, you know, you bash your best."

Two 15-year-olds said that they'd traveled from Philadelphia and were seeing the blooms for the archetypal time. 

 "It's worthy it due to the fact that it's truthful pretty."

"It's truly busy, but I deliberation it's worthy it due to the fact that it's truthful pretty," said 1 of them.

The different 1 shared her content that they'd taken implicit 100 photos truthful far. 

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"We're gonna take, like, implicit 1,000 more," the archetypal 1 chimed in.

A antheral from Staten Island, New York, said it was his archetypal clip ever successful Washington, D.C. 

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"I deliberation it's truly beauteous and it's precise bully to beryllium here. It's precise clean, everyone's affable and the environment's nice," helium said. 

National Cherry Blossom festivities tally done April 13.