Minnesota Avenue station
Minnesota Avenue is an island-platformed Washington Metro station in the Central Northeast/Mahaning Heights neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., United States. The station was opened on 20 November 1978, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Minnesota Avenue is the last above-ground station for Vienna-Fairfax-bound Orange Line trains; west of the station, trains connect to the same track as the Blue and Silver Lines, cross over the Anacostia River and curve over RFK Stadium parking lots before descending underground.Location
Minnesota Avenue station is located between Kenilworth Avenue and Minnesota Avenue, at Grant Street, immediately east of the CSX Landover Subdivision rail bed. The station is an east-Washington commuter station with a small parking lot and many Metrobuses serving the east side of the city from here. It is also southwest of the historic western terminus of the Chesapeake Beach Railway.History
The station opened on 20 November 1978. Its opening coincided with the completion of of rail northeast of the Stadium–Armory station and the opening of the Cheverly, Deanwood, Landover, and New Carrollton stations.Station layout
