Anyone know much about the area? We had a family vacation planned for Thanksgiving week, but my wife’s sister is knocked up and due right around then and another family member had some health problems and burned a ton of PTO and is backing out, so we’re no longer doing anything. I was looking at the college football calendar and my team is playing at Maryland in mid-October. Thinking about heading out that way for the game and doing some of the DC stuff, but is the campus area worth a shit?
Graduated 05’ Terp here. The actual campus is really nice and you should have a good experience at the game. There are a few restuarants around Route 1, walking distance from campus, that are good sports bar/pubs, Bentleys, Cornerstone, Sante Fe come to mind. I wouldnt stray to far down Route 1 though, the surrounding area gets kind of dicey. If you want to experience more than Just UMD hop on the Metro to DC. The Georegtown area is nice or go see all of the sights at the National Mall. Great brew pubs around there too. I wouldnt go near Baltimore unless you want the authentic Mad Max experience.
^ Which episode? Thunderdome?
Hit up the PG county AMPs for full service with a smile
Get up to speed bro…the Fe closed when I was a Junior in 2010. Re-opened I think 2 or 3 years ago as Terrapin Turf. Lots of stuff to do around College Park, but as mentioned, dont stray too far away from campus…it can get ghetto. DC is a short metro ride away or 5-10 min car ride down route 1. You can hit up Adams Morgan, U Street, Georgetown, Dupont. Cafe Citron and Dirty Martini in Dupont are good spots. Also, I hope your team loses. Stay safe.
College Park, MD is GHEEEETOOOO!!!
PG PLAZA is worse IMO.
Sad that I’ve been to DC many times recently but havent made it back to campus since 2008. This year I saw the bball team play UCONN at MSG and saw the awesome crapfest comeback at Rutgers. I really need to get back down there sometime.