Kenwood Cherry Blossoms 2025 Photo Gallery (Video + Photos)

More and more people discover the cherry blossoms of the Kenwood community in Chevy Chase each year. Much like the spectacular Kenwood Golf & Country Club fireworks in the summer, many local residents are increasingly content to settle for the superior product closer to home, without the long trip to the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Of course, this puts a strain on the Kenwood residents, as the masses stagger through the neighborhood, and lines of cars snake around the community's streets under police supervision. The diabolical Montgomery County Council even stopped by to post one of their new "Lemonade Tax Now" signs, recalling when the Council fined kids $500 for operating a lemonade stand in Bethesda in 2011. They cannot, and they will not, give up this fight!

A special video:

Signatures blossoming for Little Falls Parkway petition

With three days to go before the March 30 Montgomery County Planning Board hearing on the controversial and illegal Little Falls Parkway "road diet," signatures on a petition to reopen all four lanes of the road are nearing 3000 in total. Signs promoting the petition have popped up in virtually every neighborhood near the parkway. 

Crowds descending on the Kenwood neighborhood that borders the parkway to see its famous cherry blossom trees couldn't miss the signs posted near the community's entrance. Many of those visitors found themselves stuck in cherry blossom-related traffic on the downsized parkway. TakeBackLFP.com is the address.

Kenwood cherry blossoms 2022 photo gallery

It's time for my annual photo gallery of the Kenwood cherry blossoms. Despite the unseasonably-cold spring, blustery winds and occasional hard freeze, the trees in this exclusive Chevy Chase community have once again provided a closer-to-home show for many who wish to avoid the long trip down to the Tidal Basin in the District. 

Kenwood Cherry Blossoms 2021 (Photos)

It's increasingly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in the Washington, D.C. area, but you don't have to go down to the Tidal Basin to see cherry blossoms. Kenwood in Chevy Chase has its own spectacular cherry blossom display every spring. Here's a look at this year's peak bloom:

Police restrict access to Kenwood cherry blossoms

Authorities cracked down on cherry blossom crowds violating social distancing rules both at the Tidal Basin and here in Kenwood Sunday. With access to the blossoms in the District already made difficult by two Metro station closures intended to limit access there, large numbers still managed to get there this weekend, and the size of the crowd made it nearly impossible to keep a six-foot distance between people. Police and the National Guard ultimately were called in to block the public from accessing the blossoms at the Tidal Basin.

Kenwood also found itself being overwhelmed Sunday. Montgomery County police eventually closed all vehicular access to the neighborhood, allowing residents only to drive into the community. This was a good call. Large crowds were already a safety and quality of life issue, but this year they can also present a deadly risk from coronavirus.

Kenwood cherry blossoms 2020 photo gallery

The famous Kenwood cherry blossoms don't know America is in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic, and are blooming as in any other year. Here's a look at them as cherry blossom season officially gets underway. Many Kenwood residents were concerned that the combination of stir-crazy quarantined families understandably looking for outdoor activities, and D.C. efforts to discourage crowds at the Tidal Basin cherry blossoms, would overwhelm their neighborhood. That was not the case, at least at the time these photos were taken yesterday.

Kenwood concerned largest crowd ever could descend on cherry blossoms amidst coronavirus outbreak

Public has been discouraged

from visiting larger displays at

Tidal Basin; Metro stations there

will be closed

Some Kenwood residents are expressing alarm on local listservs that the largest crowd ever could descend upon the neighborhood in the coming days for its famous cherry blossoms. What is raising concerns this year is that District officials have discouraged the public from making their usual pilgrimage to the most famous cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin in D.C., due to the coronavirus pandemic. To cap it off, Metro has now announced it will be closing two Metro stations convenient to the Tidal Basin to make it that much harder for crowds to visit.

No Parking signs are already up in Kenwood, and there has been no intervention or public messaging from Montgomery County officials so far to protect the neighborhood from being swamped. The fact that virtually everything is closed, and people are understandably looking for things to do outside of their homes at this point, only adds to the anxiety in Kenwood.

To maintain social distance even among the usual number of visitors to Kenwood's cherry blossoms would require people to either go into the roadways, or far onto residents' lawns. With a highly-contagious virus circulating, "many of the residents of Kenwood are quite worried," one resident wrote on a local listserv.

The "Kenwood" letters have been missing from the signs at the River Road entrance of Kenwood in recent days, likely because the signs are being repainted. But one person I spoke to joked that the name was removed to fool drivers from elsewhere in the region who are hunting for those Kenwood cherry blossoms. Not true, of course, but still humorous.