Originally Posted by
IaninDC
In general, DC is a quasi-ghost town over Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day weekends.
DC's a ghost town over Memorial Day... oh yeah except for those 900,000 guys on motorcycles....
http://www.rollingthundermotorcyclerally.com/
If you're an actual resident going to away-from-the-Mall neighborhoods, it can be quiet, but any tourist and half the people who didn't go out of town will be on the Mall on any of those holidays (on Labor Day the half of the residents who didn't go out of town and don't go to the Mall will be at my neighborhood Target, buying whatever got missed on their Back to School lists). The rest of DC may be tumblin' tumbleweeds but the Mall will be hopping.