Alta Vista-Trolley's End

If you think of Bethesda as a suburban paradise, you have to thank the neighborhood that started it all. Alta Vista, built around the late 1800s, is widely considered to be Bethesda’s first “real neighborhood.” It was initially one of the subdivisions of the Maplewood neighborhood and intended to be the terminus of a trolley line that started in Tenleytown. The trolley eventually extended out to Rockville and closed in 1935, but the neighborhood has remained.