No problem. Advance tickets are sold online and can be picked up at the Will Call window in the Washington Monument Lodge, but there's a $1.50 service charge for each ticket.

In honor of the 130-year-old monument's post-earthquake restoration, here are some things you may or may not know about the symbolic structure.

After an earthquake in 2011, the monument closed down for nearly three years due to repairs. Then, it reopened for a year and a half before it was closed again so the NPS could modernize its elevator.

The Washington Monument is reopening Thursday, after three years of renovations to modernize its elevator and construct a new security screening facility. The monument was built to honor George ...

In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian is treating visitors to exhibits celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. After dark an image of the rocket is projected on the Washington Monument.

Eight years after it was rattled by an earthquake and three years after it was closed for elevator and other repairs, the beleaguered Washington Monument will reopen Sept. 19, the National Park ...

In our nation's capital one monument stands above them all: a 555-foot-tall marble obelisk that ended up the perfect expression of what our first president was, and still is, in the minds of the ...

Standing 555 feet tall, the Washington Monument is one of Washington, D.C.'s most visible landmarks, the highest point in the city. The monument was completed in 1884.