Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

• Introduction
• WMATA: The Capitol Metro System
• Arlington National Cemetery
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
• Capitol Building
• Capitol Hill
• FBI
• Holocaust Museum
• Kennedy Center
• Mount Vernon
• Library of Congress
• National Arboretum
• National Archives
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• Old Executive Office Building
• Pentagon
• Smithsonian
• State Department
• Supreme Court
• Vietnam Women's Memorial
• Voice of America
• Washington Monument
• White House

Arlington National Cemetery

Nearly 4 million visitors pay their respects to over 250,000 fallen service men entombed at Arlington each year. Arlington National Cemetery is also an active military cemetery, averaging 20 funerals each day.

Tour Information

The Arlington National Cemetery visitor center and parking facility are open during normal cemetery hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 1 through March 31, and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from April 1 through September 30.  Tours are self-guided, and cemetery and gravesite information may be obtained at the Visitor's Center. Arlington National Cemetery is located on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro System, though paid parking is availble from Memorial Drive.

New Mexicans might want to see:

Graves of Lt. General Arthur MacArthur and General John "Black Jack" Pershing

Lt. General Arthur MacArthur commanded Ft. Selden, New Mexico for four years after serving valiantly in the Union Army during the Civil War (His son, Douglas MacArthur, a commanding General in WWII, was with him at the Fort). He would later become military governor of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, and retire as Lieutenant General.  Arthur MacArthur died in 1912, and is buried in Section 8, grave number 879.

General John "Black Jack" Pershing (pictured at left) was stationed at Ft. Stanton, New Mexico, and later served in the Spanish-American War.  Pershing led troops in pursuit of Pancho Villa, who raided Columbus, NM in 1916. Gen. Pershing would go on to command in WW I. He died in 1948, and is buried in Section 34, grave number 1. 

Grave of John Wesley Powell

Under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell established the first official stream gaging station at Embudo, New Mexico, in December of 1888.  Part of his Irrigation Survey, a large scale attempt to bring a systematic plan to irrigate the West, the Embudo Stream Gaging Station served as the nation's first field training center for hydrologists.  Though the plan was never fully realized, the Embudo Stream Gaging Station is still in operation. 

View the current stream flow conditions of Rio Grande at the Embudo Stream Gaging Station.