Six stops from Friendship Heights. Five from Bethesda.
Chevy Chase has no station with its own name, but both of the ones it uses sit on Rockville’s arm of the Red Line. Drive the car up, walk one block to the platform, and ride straight back to Wisconsin Avenue.
One direction, no transfer
- Friendship Heights
- Bethesda
- Medical Center
- Grosvenor–Strathmore
- North Bethesda
- Twinbrook
- Rockville · Karnon
Friendship Heights station is on Wisconsin Avenue at the District line and serves the Chevy Chase neighborhoods; Bethesda station is about a quarter-mile from the Town of Chevy Chase’s northwest corner. Rockville is outbound from both of them, toward Shady Grove, so the trip home is a single seat. By bus, Metrobus M82 runs between Friendship Heights and Rockville station by way of River Road and Falls Road, and Ride On Route 47 links Bethesda station to Rockville station. Chevy Chase has no MARC stop; the nearest are Kensington and Silver Spring, and the same Brunswick Line stops at Rockville.
Drive: Connecticut to Veirs Mill
Connecticut Avenue (MD-185) leaves Chevy Chase Circle and runs six miles north past the Beltway to Wheaton, where Veirs Mill Road (MD-586) heads northwest into East Rockville. About eleven miles, twenty minutes or so without traffic.
Drive: Wisconsin to Hungerford
Or take MD-355 the whole way: Wisconsin Avenue through Bethesda, Rockville Pike through North Bethesda, Hungerford Drive through downtown Rockville, past the station a block from the shop.
Not the Beltway
I-495 to I-270 works from the western edge, but it enters Rockville from the wrong side of the tracks and rarely saves time. The directions button picks the live best route.
A streetcar suburb with century-old streets
“Chevy Chase” is really several places: the Town of Chevy Chase, incorporated in 1918, Chevy Chase Village, Sections Three and Five, Martin’s Additions, North Chevy Chase and an unincorporated census-designated place, all packed together just north of the District line with Rock Creek along the east. The Chevy Chase Land Company laid it out as a streetcar suburb in the 1890s and the building boom came in the 1920s, so a great deal of the housing (the Town alone counts just over a thousand homes) is a century old, on narrow streets designed for a different kind of car.
Driving here is a home-office pattern: recent Census estimates show roughly four in ten workers working from home and four in ten driving alone, with two cars per household and commutes right around the national average. Newer cars need proper computer diagnostics rather than a parts-swap; that is what ASE Master Certified technicians with current scan tools are for, and every job is quoted before it starts, in English, Spanish or French.
Selling a car in Chevy Chase? Bring it up the line once.
A used car being sold, bought or titled needs a Maryland Safety Inspection from a licensed station. Karnon Automotive is one, and repairs plus re-inspection happen under one roof, with the result transmitted to the MVA. The state’s VEIP emissions test is elsewhere: Montgomery County has two full-service stations, Silver Spring at 2121 Industrial Parkway in White Oak, roughly ten road miles from Chevy Chase, and Rockville at 15910 Chieftain Ave in Derwood, a few miles past the shop and about thirteen from Chevy Chase. For the MVA counter, Kemp Mill at 1327 Lamberton Dr in Silver Spring is closest; road tests are at White Oak or Gaithersburg, and the county’s self-service emissions kiosk is at the Gaithersburg branch.