Best Kept Secret: Watch the D.C. Fireworks Display Without the Crowds

If you like everyone else would really like to watch the D.C. fireworks display, but the thought of dealing with D.C. traffic, tourists and crowds makes you cringe, I may have a solution.

If you head over to Cardoza High School off U Street, there is a large hill where locals gather to not only watch the D.C. display but several others from neighboring towns in Maryland - like the University of Maryland display in College Park.

Police block off the road so people can stand in the street and watch.

The great part - you can take the green line to U Street or drive into the city only a short distance and far enough away from the mall.

Where: 1300 Clifton St., NW

When: Get there before the show,  which starts at 9 p.m.

Here a few other places you can see the fireworks and avoid large crowds as listed in the Washingtonian Magazine.