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McLean: I-495 - MM 44.5 - SB
Tucked between the Potomac River and the Capital Beltway, McLean is a place whose character is shaped by wooded Fairfax County terrain and close ties to Washington. The community extends across rolling suburban ground northeast of Tysons, where Interstate 495 forms one of the region’s principal transport links. Rather than a traditional downtown, McLean is defined by residential neighborhoods, office districts and major arterial roads. Its Langley area is home to CIA headquarters, occupied since 1961, while nearby Tysons has grown into one of Northern Virginia’s leading business and retail centers. The Potomac’s wooded shoreline and Great Falls Park provide a contrasting edge to this intensely connected part of the capital region.
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Few communities in Virginia have identities as closely tied to the growth of the federal capital as McLean. Set beside the Potomac River in Fairfax County, this unincorporated community occupies a wooded stretch of Northern Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. Its name recalls John Roll McLean, the newspaper publisher and railroad investor whose development interests helped shape the area. Langley, within McLean, is known internationally as the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, while the George Washington Memorial Parkway follows the Potomac nearby. Place McLean within Northern Virginia’s wider setting by browsing webcams nearby.
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