The 18-mile Mount Vernon Trail is one of the Washington, D.C. Metro area's most popular trails. Just across the Potomac River from D.C. in Virginia, the trail links Theodore Roosevelt Island Park with George Washington's Estate in Mount Vernon.
Gilead, area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the YarmÅ«k River and in the southwest by what were known in ancient times as the âplains of Moabâ; to the east there is no definite boundary.
It was bounded on the north by Bashan, and on the south by Moab and Ammon ( Genesis 31:21 ; Deuteronomy 3:12-17 ). Half Gilead was possessed by Sihon, and the other half, separated from it by the river Jabbok, by Og, king of Bashan.