4/27/2021

Inventory of stations with escalators over 45' 13.71m vertical rise.

Station name Vertical rise Length
Number of escalators Feet Meters Feet Meters
Wheaton
3 115' 5" 35.17m 230' 9 5/16" 70.34m
Bethesda
3 107' 6 1/2" 32.77 215' 1" 65.55m
Woodley Zoo Park
3 103' 2 1/2" 31.45m 206' 5" 62.91m
Medical Center
3 100' 11 7/8" 30.78m 201' 11 3/4" 61.56m
Rosslyn
4 97' 9 1/4" 29.80m 195' 6 1/2" 59.60m
Dupont Circle
North 3 94’ 5 3/4" 28.79m 188' 11 1/2" 57.59m
South 3 84’ 9 1/4" 25.83m 169' 6 1/2" 51.67m
Tenleytown
3 81' 3 1/2" 24.77m 162' 7" 49.55m
Friendship Heights
3 65' 10 3/4" 20.08m 131' 9 1/2" 40.17m
Pentagon *
3 59' 3/4" 18.00m 118' 1 1/2" 36.00m
Cleveland Park
3 58' 9 3/8" 17.91m 117' 6 3/4" 35.83m
Dulles Airport ††
2 57' 8 1/4" 17.58m 115' 4 1/2" 34.16m
Van Ness
3 56' 6 1/8" 17.22m 113' 1/4" 34.44m
Court House **
3 48' 6 1/4" 14.78m 97' 1/2" 29.57m

List was updated in April of 2021 to include the escalators in the Dulles Airport station.

Length is side c of a trangle base on 30° at angle A.

All stations in subway are in bedrock except Court House and Pentagon.

† Entrance opened in 1977 with 2, upgraded to 3 in 2012.

†† Elevated station.

** Station in cut and cover, Pentagon Concourse to mezzanine escalators were closed in the late 1990s.

*** Deepest station in cut and cover