Huntington Metro Station

The first stop on the Yellow line, this Huntington station is a little outdated. Just be aware that service does tend to get interrupted quite often due to rail work, affecting the Huntington pick-​up. Parking is available daily at $ 4.85 for all-​day, but on weekends, it is free (gates are up!). I suggest in parking at the lower level garage, as it is easier to get in to the station. The escalators are a little scary, though, as they are quite high! The staff here are friendly (for the most part, such as Mr. B.B. Young (!)) and try to help you out with any questions/​assistance.
+free parking on weekends!
+first stop on the Yellow line (for Alexandria folks)
+ask for Mr. B.B. Young

Huntington is my «home» station and I have been using it for about three years now. My apartment has a shuttle that… well… shuttles me to and fro every weekday.
It’s a Metro station, what else can you say about it? You show up, you sit down in your seat and if the train is working (which is a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ shot with Metro) you go from A to B. There’s ample parking, it’s easily accessible from either Huntington Avenue (the side I use) or North Kings Highway and it’s (relatively) clean.
I don’t see a lot of sketchy characters and, unlike a lot of the Metro stations in the core, I’ve found the staff to be surprisingly friendly and helpful – at least when I interacted with them. I’ve never caught the station manager asleep in the booth, unlike some other stations I’ve visited.
There is a small one-​person bathroom and you don’t even need to beg a metro employee to use it, though you do have be through the fare-​gates to use it, so in effect you’re paying to use it.
Did I mention it has a FUNICULAR?

Not crowded. It’s the last stop on the Yellow line. Has park and ride garage. Trains every seven minutes or so.

The staff need to clean the stair wells, they smell like pee. I mean, at least throw some soap on the floor and scrub it with a broom. It’s not that hard folks!
Also, the escalators are constantly broken. If only they would fix them properly the first time!

I’m a Huntington metro fan. The upper side it my preference though. It is easier to get in and out of. I have parked there a few times and really like it. I have actually had to ask the staff a question a couple of times and they were very friendly. The lower lot is so contested with cars, shuttles and busses who don’t know what is going on. Upper all the way.

I use this subway station for my daily commute to work.
I do have two issues regarding this Metro outlet.
I am getting tired of persons trying to hand me flyers, surveyors trying to persuade me to take surveys, voters league volunteers asking me if I am registered to vote, and Express hustlers trying to thrust a tabloid-​sized left wing newspaper into my hand, as I approach/​depart this station.
Also, as noted by more than a few Unilocal reviewers, the outhouse stench in the parking garages is offensive.

This is my home station, ½ mile away from me. It tends to be clean most of the time. There is plenty of parking available and parking is $ 4.25 all day. Not a bad deal. It’s the start of the yellow line. So far the in the past 7 months i have been taking this line, i haven’t ran into any major delays. Always on time and ready to go.

Listen, I’m a educated woman with a few degrees under her belt but every single time I’ve parked here I’ve wandered around looking for my car on the return trip. Never have I EVER consistently lost my car in the same parking garage multiple days in a row. Until coming to Huntington that is.
The first time put me in a state of panic because I was literally on the complete opposite side of the station where I parked. I ended up wandering around in 90 degree weather in the piss soaked garage for probably 30+ minutes. I actually thought I was stuck forever and would never get out. I had no water, no food, my cellphone was dead and I had a full bladder. It was a crisis situation indeed. I thought I was going to have to just wait until nightfall and hope to see them towing my car before I would be rescued. I saw graffiti on the walls and figured it was just the remnants of fallen brothers and sisters who never made it to their cars on time.
Unlike most garages the area isn’t even labeled in a way that would help you find your car later. There are no landmarks. I saw a man wandering just like me. Only he was prepared with a case of cigarettes. We just nodded to each other and kept pushing forward. I don’t know what happened to that guy. I never saw him after that day.
I suggest leaving a trail of breadcrumbs or getting some type of GPS locator to ensure that you find your car when its time to go home. At least have a friend on speed dial to rescue you if you are lost. In fact, don’t drive here at all.
Also, the entire place smells like urine and I’m sure that is directly related to the fact that people have pissed in fear of being stuck at Huntington Metro for the rest of their lives. I think whenever there is a Missing Person Alert for Alexandria we should first check Huntington to make sure they aren’t dead or passed out somehwere in the pissy stairwells.
Other than parking its your typical WMATA station.

What do you do when your waiting on the bus to go home? Write a review with your mobile app! Huntington Metro Station is A-​okay in my book. I rather be stuck her waiting for the bus in comparison to other Metro Stations.
I rarely see any sketchy people lingering around. Never been solicited for money here either.
The staton is pretty clean too and the bus area is well lit at night. My only complaint is that the Metro Station isn’t completely inclosed so during the winter my buns were freezing! But I love Huntington and the Yellow Line… All my favorite spots are off of this line.
Oh yes, and the constant fare increases… I could live without. I would also prefer a solid fare for each ride rather than pay by the distance. Welp!
WMATA, if you’re reading this, call me! I have a few suggestions.

This one of the station I use to go every day to Fort Belvoir to my job.
I remember when this station open for the first time. With the upper have of the station when people first ride on the new elevator to the upper level. Where the vine grow by the track on the rocky wall. They had spring water flowing down the walls. There sprig under the station. But when time the water started to have a oder in the spring. They had to stop the spring from flowing.
But the lower level has not shop or stores near the bus station. Some morning I wood love to have a cup of coffee or a soda. Service great. Track work sucks. Restroom room avoid at all cost. Even the over cost restroom they put in that was a big mistake. And it’s still not clean.

I stumbled across this page and the reviews are a riot. Naturally trains will sit for a few extra minutes at the end of the line — this is the case at the end of virtually every line in the Metro system from Vienna to Shady Grove to Huntington. Same with difficulty locating where you parked, dirt and grime, confusion, delays… it’s public transportation. Few of these reviews — save a handful — cite anything unique to the Huntington station.

I like this station. This is my one of my «home» stations.
The station fellow for the morning Mr B. was awesome — he retired a few years ago and I do miss his welcoming voice. Since then I am not sure who is the guy in charge of the station’s North King’s Highway exit.
I always ride in on the Connector or get dropped off. On the North King’s Highway exit there is a strip mall with a few decent places to eat, a bodega, a 7-​eleven and a Post Office.
This is also the station where you can catch buses to George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
I am a fan for sure!

Always find parking. Very clean platform and station.

Okay it’s a Metro Station, it gets you from point A to point B, it’s fairly clean, but the smell of urine and trash lingers in the stairwells. My only problem with this station is that there are too many garages. I walked around for a while looking for my car only to find out there was a third garage. Thankfully the Metro guard gave me a free pass to walk through the station without paying a fee to get to the other garage. I can tell you one thing garages are well lit but the signage for the three garages are not labeled well.
Be sure to remember which garage you parked or you might have to walk around until the Metro guard gets back to his station after an hour or two.

I don’t know what the deal is with the bad reviews. It’s a metro station, not a Hilton.
I have been parking here for a few months now and have never felt unsafe, even coming home past 9pm. Also, I believe they got the memo about the unclean stairwells because when I’ve ever climbed the stairs, it smells like soap and there are soapy puddles on the ground. The escalators are sometimes out of service, yes. It has been rare, in my experience. And goodness knows how you D.C. people like to charge like rabid buffaloes up and down them anyway. So who cares if they’re just stairs for the day?
Sometimes it really is a pain in the butt in the non-​peak hours to get a reliable train. I go to and from work during non-​peak hours and even on weekdays there is sometimes a huge gap in train service (I have waited over 20 minutes for a train on a handful of weekday occasions. Weekends are a different story.). A girl needs to get to work!
All in all, I am sure glad that the station is there and have yet to not find a parking spot. I got lost on my first day in the parking garage like the previous poster… but you get used to it.

My wife and I were visiting DC for the Cherry bloom and completely lost. We parked on the third level of the big new garage and took the elevator to the 5^th floor as the signs directed. Following the early morning commuters we quickly found the entrance and gates. I asked the station master to help us buy passes and he was very helpful. No problemo, in fact, for hicks from the sticks, it was almost FUN.
After our day walkin and gawkin downtown we returned tired and weary to Huntington and couldn’t find our car! Wrong elevator, wrong garage, Twilight Zone… who knows? We had negected to notice any «landmarks» that morning and now were afraid we were trapped in a bad Seinfeld episode, wandering the garage…
Returning to the station gate I tried to explain our predicament to the lady in the cage. She rather haughtily said we needed to take a «walk through» pass and go to the other end on the platform. When I tried to explain exactly which garage we had entered that morning she said, «Listen, I don’t repeat myself often. There’s the pass, go to the other end.’ So, against our better judgement, we did.
Once there we knew it was wrong and after talking with this station master we had to go outside, walk back up the access road to the right garage, then climb the stairs to the third level and wander around until we found our car. Wife was not happy.
The next day we paid closer attention to our walk from the garage to the station (elevator to top of garage, cross metal walk to stairs, down one level, walk through dark garage, turn right into station gates) on returning we found our vehicle with only one little misstep.
Tip for newbies: bring some breadcrumbs (or a piece of chalk) and be sure to remember your return trip to the car!

Coolest bathroom ever automatic everything! Only annoying part is that there are bus stations on two sides

One of the worst metro stations! I’d give zero stars if I could.
Huntington is the start/​end of the Yellow Line. Because of this, trains frequently sit for 10+ minutes and often don’t let riders board until just before departure. Just awful during the summer heat since it’s an open-​air station and there is absolutely no platform air conditioning. Also because it’s the end of the line, MANY commuters park here or take a bus in then ride into the city. Metro does nothing to accommodate for the high volume of traffic at this station, especially during the afternoon rush. If you aren’t at the very front of the train, expect to wait quite a bit to get out!
I can’t forget to mention, the escalators seem to break down here more than at any other station I’ve been to. The one at the north entrance has been out of service and blocked since 03/​2011, leaving only a set of slippery stairs to climb out.

Oh man. I really feel like I’m Neo in that one Matrix where he’s waiting forever for the train. And when it does come he’s not sure if he can board it.
End of the line, kid.

«All the world’s a stage…» and the more boring your job, the more you may add a dash of drama! Huntington Metro is just outside the beltway and is in the hub of the newly growing mixing-bowl-oh-that’s Alexandria-​as-​well area. And it has two exits AND two «kiss and ride» just to make sure the commuters can kiss their day goodbye.
So I was being «ridden» and decided to go out the King’s Highway exit as I kind of like the sound of that road. WRONG! Sure I came up to the sunlight where the suburbanites were hopping on the happy sunset colored buses. I looked around. No ride. No kiss. I called my kissenride. They were at the Huntington avenue (what?! There are two exits? What the?!) I considered going around on the street but realizing that to do so would involve a ring, a wizard and an un-​bathed Viggo; I decided to seek the Metro dude’s advice.
After noting that the elevator was broken so that a family had to schlep the baby mover down the stairs (brilliant move having a GIANT metro stop and ONE three-​person elevator), I found THE man in shiny neon. I played it dumb and lazy, «so, is there possibly a way that I can get through? Without paying again as I already paid once?» And here’s where the actor got cued.
The Metro guy pivoted and in audition-​worthy over-​acting first-​hour thespian tone said, «Reeelly? Did you now? How fascinating!» And with the twinkle of his ivories, he continued, «Well, I’ll tell you now, here’s what you do.» Striding over to a box on the wall of his brown gatehouse, he took out a sheet of yellow paper and said, «You take this piece of paper and you walk through this gate, then down the escalator, and down to the other end of the platform and then there’ll be more escalators.»
Not missing a beat, I batted back, «and do I go DOWN those escalators?»
«Why yes, yes you do. And when you get to the other gate, you put this sheet of paper in the box, and it’ll allow you to go through.»
Ah, the drama! The lights! The excitement! The smell of repetitious boredom in the afternoon!
I did just as he told me. At the other end of the Metro, under the train bridge, after the trolls, there was my chariot. Giddy yup.