Travel tips for attending President-elect Trump’s inauguration as experts weigh in

President Joe Biden’s inauguration successful Jan. 2021 whitethorn person been scaled backmost owed to COVID-19, but Washington, D.C., is present preparing to invited a tremendous influx of visitors for the monumental lawsuit this twelvemonth for President-elect Donald Trump. 

Elliott Ferguson, II, Destination DC president and CEO, told Fox News Digital, "The nationalist hasn’t been capable to enactment successful the inauguration since 2017, truthful we expect important interest."

Typically, first-term presidents person larger inaugurations, according to Destination DC’s data partners.

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Kristin Petersen, a travel adviser at Travelmation successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, told Fox News that she encourages clients to debar the unreserved hr when flying into the Washington, D.C., area.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and Dulles International Airport (IAD) successful Virginia are the airports nearest to the nation’s capital.

The Washington, D.C., question manufacture is gearing up for crowds up of Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump connected Jan. 20, 2025, which volition bring Americans to the nation's superior successful solemnisation of democracy. The lawsuit for President Biden, shown above, was scaled backmost owed to COVID. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"Your commute during unreserved hr volition beryllium jam-packed and slow," said Petersen. 

So "I urge flying in the mediate of the week because most radical are coming and going from the metropolis connected the weekends."

Petersen said she anticipates that hotel rates volition proceed to emergence and rooms capable up.

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"The perfect determination is simply a edifice wrong walking region of Capitol Hill," she said. 

"A batch of the metropolis volition unopen down and galore locations volition beryllium gated, truthful it's highly hard to determination astir the city." 

Donald Trump was inaugurated arsenic 45th president of the United States connected Jan. 20, 2017. His inauguration arsenic 47th main enforcement volition instrumentality spot connected Jan. 20, 2025.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Petersen said she advises visitors to see staying astatine destinations that are located extracurricular the territory connected metro stops if edifice costs successful the country are extracurricular people's budgets.

Travelers should cheque the weather anterior to their trip, ensuring due apparel are packed.

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"We person had a snowy commencement to 2025 and the temperatures person been below normal …Travelers should expect freezing temperatures and the imaginable for snow," she said.

President-elect Donald Trump is shown taking the oath of bureau successful Washington, D.C. connected Jan. 20, 2017.  (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"You tin ever region layers if temperatures increase," said Petersen.

Heavy coats, insulated walking shoes, gloves, hats and adjacent hand-warmers are adjuvant to pack.

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The inauguration takes spot connected Jan. 20 connected the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. 

Flags are placed connected the National Mall, with the U.S. Capitol down them, conscionable up of the past statesmanlike inauguration successful Jan. 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The parade volition statesman astatine astir 2:30 p.m. connected Inauguration Day, lasting 60 to 90 minutes, according to Destination DC’s website.

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The nationalist viewing areas for the parade commencement astatine 3rd Street, extending to Pennsylvania Avenue adjacent the Canadian Embassy.