Planned for wheelchair riders
Silver Line station near the Capital Beltway. Six elevators and long, mall-sized distances outside. The wrong walkway leaves you on the wrong side of the bridges from Tysons Corner Center.
Written for riders who need to reach the right mall entrance.
Station N02
The choice that matters
Raised walkways · or the street-level route to the mall
Same station. Very different time outside for a wheelchair or stroller.
Disability & mobility
Tysons (formerly Tysons Corner) is the Silver Line’s mall station. Trust the elevators, then plan the pedestrian bridges and the street routes as separate routes outside.
Bridge
This is the path the mall maps suggest. Before you leave the platform, check which set of elevators still reaches the bridge. Street-level detours seem short from inside the station, but they are not.
Best for Tysons Corner Center by walkway
Street
Fine if that is where you’re going. Wrong if you expected Tysons station to put you at the mall entrance without another trip outside.
Best when the bridge route is closed
An elevated Silver Line station can be fully “accessible” and still leave you with a long route outside to the mall.
If the Tysons elevators are out, Greensboro or McLean may still get you to a mall or office entrance. Compare the bridges outside, not just the station names. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) elevator-outage shuttle: 202-962-1825 · TTY 202-638-3780.
On the ground
Three steps: the elevator, the mezzanine, the mall.
01
Six elevators serve an elevated station. When the mall still needs a bridge crossing afterward, an outage is not a small delay.
02
Pick the path that still leads to your mall entrance. The wrong mezzanine elevator means a long detour outside.
03
Elevators and store entrances inside the mall are on the mall’s page. Metro only gets you to the edge of the station.
Why this stop feels different
Tysons is honest that the mall is not inside the station. The bridges are part of the trip.
The station sits above a shopping area built for cars, with walkways added later. That is why “take Metro to Tysons” can still fail after a perfect elevator ride.
Keep the parts separate: Metro for the station elevators, the bridges for the trip outside, and the mall for the elevators inside.
On the street
Tysons station
Silver Line · Tysons, Virginia
United States
Elevated station · walkways toward Tysons Corner Center
Silver Line
Nearby: Tysons Corner Center. For the Galleria, Greensboro may be closer. Compare the minutes outside. When elevators are out: don’t assume the next Silver Line stop avoids the bridges.
Open Tysons on the live mapLive elevator status at TysonsAfter the elevator
Times are hand-set for a chair or stroller pace, including the bridges — not live routing.
Last look
Four things to check before you go.
Six elevators matter here. An outage can leave you stuck inside the station before you reach the mall.
Choose the bridge or the street-level route before you leave the platform.
Tysons Corner Center entrances are not interchangeable after a long bridge crossing. Pick the entrance that matches your path.
Elevators inside are on the mall’s page. Metro elevator status is on our map.
About this guide. We put these guides together by hand. Travel times are our own estimates, and venue details are copied from their websites, so either can be wrong or out of date. Check the venue’s page before you go. For elevators, trust the live map and the transit agency.