Glenmont

Glenmont has many gentle hills, streams, and parks. Glenmont's 13,500 residents come from all parts of the world.

History

The village of Glenmont (sometimes spelled Glenmount) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contained a few houses and small farms lining the Washington-Brookville Turnpike, as Georgia Avenue was then called. The area had a post office since at least 1900.
Glenmont's first school opened in 1926. Located on current-day Georgia Avenue, the school served students from Glenmont, Aspen Hill, Layhill, and Wheaton.
The area remained largely undeveloped until after World War II, when suburbanization began with the construction of subdivisions in Glenmont. Commercial and residential development began transforming the rural area known as Glenmont in 1949 with two major developments, Glenmont Village, and Glenmont Forest.
In 1947 the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission built the 189-foot (58-m) tall Glenmont Water Tower, which is a multi‐columned elevated water tank with a 500,000-gallon (1,900,000-L) capacity.

By Metrorail

Glenmont is served by WMATA and is the last station on the Red Line. is along Georgia Ave, in the middle on the town.

By car

The major streets running through Glenmont are Georgia Avenue, Randolph Road, Layhill Road. The area where they converge is the center of Glenmont.

By bus

Metrobus and Ride-on-Bus operate service around Glenmont and to other areas of Montgomery County.

• John F. Kennedy High School Cavaliers Football

  phone: +1 (240) 740-0100
  address: 1901 Randolph Road

• Westover

  address: 247 Mowbray Road
  A private home that was built in 1810. The house was built with one-foot-thick brick walls with ox blood-based mortar. It has remnants of slave quarters and an icehouse, Occupants drank water from a spring that was located where the Robin Hood Swim Club's pool is now. The water was filtered through a sand-filled channel called a race, pumped to the house with a hydraulic ram, and stored in a 40-foot-tall wood tower. A Queen Anne-style addition was built around 1890.

Parks and gardens

• Brookside Gardens

  phone: +1 301 962-1448
  address: 1800 Glenallan Avenue
  Beautiful and expansive botanic gardens. Visit the butterfly pavilion in the summer months—otherwise just take the opportunity for a romantic stroll.

• Glenfield Park

  address: 12800 Layhill Road
  With tennis courts, a soccer pitch, a children's playground, and a picnic shelter, Glenfield Park is a great place to spend a nice day.

• Layhill Village Park

  address: 1920 Queensguard Road
  10-acre recreational park that has softball fields, tennis courts, a soccer pitch, a children's playground, and picnic areas.

• Matthew Henson Trail

  address: Trail head is near 14198 Alderton Road
  Matthew Henson Trail is an 8-foot-wide (2.5-m) hard-surface hiking/biking trail. The trail starts in Glenmont and continues 4.5 miles (7 km) to the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail near Aspen Hill. The trail includes a 0.6-mile (1-km) wooden boardwalk through environmentally sensitive areas.

• Northwest Branch and Rachel Carson Greenway TrailHike through Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park along the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail Corridor's hard-surface and natural-surface trails. The trail begins in Glenmont and continues to Hyattsville, where it connects to the Anacostia River Trail. It begins with a 10-mile natural-surface trail, and it continues as a 2.7-mile hard-surface trail after the Beltway. The trail follows the Northwest Branch river edge, providing a feeling of walking through wilderness. The trail is planned to be extended further in the future. Bicycling is allowed only on the hard-surface trail; hiking is allowed everywhere.

• Saddlebrook Park

  phone: +1 301 962-1448
  address: 12751 Layhill Road
  15-acre park featuring a soccer pitch, basketball courts, and a children's playground.

• Wheaton/Glenmont Outdoor Pool

  phone: +1 (301) 929-5460
  address: 12621 Dalewood Drive
  Outdoor pool complex with a 6-lane, 50-m main pool; an 8-lane, 25-m swim course with one-meter and half-meter diving boards; a shallow-water leisure pool with fountains, sprays, and children's slides; an activity pool with 2 flume slides and crosswalks; a tot pool for infants; a snack bar; and a bathhouse.

• Wheaton Regional Park

  address: 1400 Glenallan Ave
  Established in 1958, this is a 538-acre regional park with a playground, picnic areas, miniature train rides, carousel rides, stocked lake for fishing, botanical gardens, nature center, hiking trails, riding stables, campground, ice skating (year-round), tennis courts, covered fields, and a dog park.

Events

• Annual Songkran Festival at Wat Thai Buddhist Temple

  phone: +1 301-871-8660
  address: 13440 Layhill Road
  Celebrate Thai New Year's Day with Thai food, Thai cultural shows, and Thai crafts.

• Azucar Restaurant Bar and Grill

  phone: +1 (301) 438-3293
  address: 14418 Layhill Road
  Lively neighborhood restaurant serving food from all over Latin America.

• Don Pollo

  phone: +1 (301) 933-9515
  address: 12345 Georgia Avenue
  Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken and traditional entrees.

• Irene's Pupusería

  phone: +1 301 933-2118
  address: 12391 Georgia Ave
  A nice place to take the family for a meal, with walls of big comfy diner-style booths. This restaurant is the local hub for the Honduran community, so there are a bunch of dishes on the menu, like the baliadas (a sort of Honduran burrito) that you won't find at the other Salvadoran restaurants. Beyond the great pupusas and baliadas, the terribly unhealthy fried plantains with creme are incredible, as are the atoles, a creamy hot chocolate-style dessert drink (non alcoholic, and without chocolate) made from corn meal with all the spices you'd expect of a pumpkin pie.

• Patisserie Manuel

  phone: +1 (301) 460-1045
  address: 2281 Bel Pre Road
  French-style pastries, espresso, fresh breads, homemade ice cream, and light breakfast foods.

• Pollo Brasero

  phone: +1 (301) 438-2800
  address: 14336 Layhill Road
  Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken and traditional entrees.

• sweetFrog

  phone: +1 (301) 933-3019
  address: 11923 Georgia Avenue
  Create your own soft-serve frozen yogurt treat with numerous flavors and toppings from which to choose.

• Stained Glass Pub

  phone: +1 (301) 933-4444
  address: 12510 Layhill Road
  Comfortable neighborhood bar and restaurant with sports on television, weekly karaoke and trivia, pub food, and many beers on tap.

Glenmont does not have any hotels. Silver Spring is just south on Georgia Ave and the Metrorail Red Line, and has plenty of nice hotels.

• Wheaton
• Silver Spring
• Washington D.C.