The Sycamore Island Club is located on Sycamore Island, an island in the Potomac River, south of the American Legion Bridge (the beltway bridge connecting Virginia's Fairfax County and Maryland's Montgomery County) and north of Chain Bridge (the northernmost bridge connecting Virginia's Arlington County to Washington, DC). It is in the general vicinity of the town of Glen Echo. The island is accessible only from the Maryland side of the river by parking at either the parking lot on MacArthur Boulevard or the parking lot on the Clara Barton Parkway. From either parking lot, a footpath can be found leading down to the river and to Sycamore Island.

Sycamore Island is accessible to members only. The club offers swimming, fishing, canoeing, picnics, events, games and more. Information about joining is available at http://www.sycamoreisland.org/

Water quality standards as well as the methods used to determine pass or fail status vary widely across jurisdictions and monitoring programs. We encourage users to explore the sample data in addition to checking the swim guide status. These data can be viewed through the Chesapeake Monitoring Collaborative Data Explorer, https://cmc.vims.edu/#/home

The description above was copied from or heavily based on Swim Guide, with permission.

More Information

• Swim Guide - Weather and water quality for Sycamore Island and 8,000 other beaches.