Annual Away Games Ranked

[RandomGuy]

I'm all in on the Louisville trip.

An ideal trip for me is brews and battlefields. Louisville has brews (lots of breweries downtown), Kentucky has battlefields (Perryville is an hour away). But the good news doesn't stop there. This trip will have birthplaces (Lincoln), bourbon (Duh), and Babers!

There's always this tragedy to mourn...

 

[Townie72]

You can get out in it pretty quick from suburbia MD / VA to WV fun stuff.

You got that right.

Appalachia starts at the northern edge of Montgomery County, MD. There's not a lot of difference between Hagerstown, MD, Cumberland, MD and Morgantown, WV.

Go South out of DC into Southern MD and Charles County (aka "Chuck" County) and its hard to imagine you are that close to DC. Go west into Virginia and by the time you get to Manassas you'll see a lot of cultural clues (NASCAR, Bass Fishin', Country Music and a occasional Confederate flag)

 

[Ozcuse]

For me, the Maryland game was by far at the top of my list for away games.

I locked in the Hotel at the University of Maryland College Park months ago for that game. Pretty nice place and only 0.6 miles from the stadium. Should be a nice walk to the tailgate!

I'm thinking about organizing a trip to Camden Yards the night before. Rangers play the Orioles at 7pm. Tickets should be dirt cheap.

 

[OttoMets]

But the beauty is you can stay somewhere else in the Metro. My son lives literally on U Street so I will be there. An interesting street: Gentrified but still has an edge. Quite a few bums but they generally don't bother anyone. The creepiest McDonald's Restaurant ever (don't judge--I was thirsty and got an iced tea to go). Customers having conversations with themselves and a very disinterested staff made getting an iced tea a 10 min wait after ordering.

Food is way better in Manhattan than DC. DC is expensive everywhere (save for McDonald's, etc...) but doesn't have many other low/moderate cost mom and pop options like NYC can offer.

The McDonald's about 10 blocks over on Georgia Avenue near Howard is slightly creepier, and equally slow. No late-night sidewalk walkup window, though.

Have you guys tried out Oohs and Aahs or The Greek Spot yet when you visit your son? Both solid mom-and-pop sorts of places on U. Though I agree about your comparison in general.

 

[Eric15]

And College Park is a middle class housing area and not a "dump", All those streets off of US 1 are smaller, well-maintained houses built in the 1940's and 1950's.

But if you travel to the Maryland game and want to take in the sites, you're not going to want to wander around a residential College Park neighborhood, you would want some type of quaint college town vibe with bars, restaurants, parks, etc. Most college towns have that, but College Park doesn't.

 

[TexanMark]

The McDonald's about 10 blocks over on Georgia Avenue near Howard is slightly creepier, and equally slow. No late-night sidewalk walkup window, though.

Have you guys tried out Oohs and Aahs or The Greek Spot yet when you visit your son? Both solid mom-and-pop sorts of places on U. Though I agree about your comparison in general.

I know he hits the Greek place (he said one of the good cheap places in DC) I'll ask him about Oohs and Aahs.

 

[TexanMark]

But if you travel to the Maryland game and want to take in the sites, you're not going to want to wander around a residential College Park neighborhood, you would want to type of quaint college town vibe with bars, restaurants, parks, etc. Most college towns have that, but College Park doesn't.

Agreed nothing says quaint like strolling down US1 in Maryland

 

[dollarbill44]

Have you been to Morgantown, WVA?
New Brunswick, NJ?

There can be more than one dumpy college town. The fact that Morgantown and New Brunswick are dumps doesn't make College Park any nicer.

 

[Townie72]

There can be more than one dumpy college town. The fact that Morgantown and New Brunswick are dumps doesn't make College Park any nicer.

College park isn't a dump. It's just part of the suburban-urban sprawl of the DC Metro area. It's in PG County.

Is it uninteresting Town? Absolutely. If the original poster had said that, I wouldn't have argued.

Is it commercial? Yup. Especially US #1 which is like Rockville Pike or Erie Blvd.

But it's not as depressing and crime-ridden as New Brunswick or as dreary and dirty as Morgantown.

 

[HOFCeluck]

I lived in Charlottesville for a year and I frequently heard it referred to as the Syracuse of Albemarle County.

 

[CuseLegacy]

TexanMark If someone has told you that Liberty/Lynchburg is cooler, temperature wise, they're lying. It's usually the same temperature there as it is where I am in NC.

 

[TexanMark]

TexanMark If someone has told you that Liberty/Lynchburg is cooler, temperature wise, they're lying. It's usually the same temperature there as it is where I am in NC.

I just looked at temp data and it was a couple degrees cooler than some other nearby places like the DC area August 31st. I didn't compare to NC though.

 

[CuseLegacy]

I just looked at temp data and it was a couple degrees cooler than some other nearby places like the DC area August 31st. I didn't compare to NC though.

I can see where it would be a few degrees cooler than DC...all that hot air up there.