Agreed.

Tons of neighborhoods and parks have cherry blossom trees. I don't understand the need to travel to see them but I can see now why someone would want to go to the Tidal Basin and be at the surrounding events.

I see. I guess I've just seen a difference between how D.C and other cities treat their cherry blossoms and I was curious if there was an added significance in D.C.

I don't think New Orlean sports teams have Ash Wednesday jerseys or an Ash Wednesday half marathon lol. But I see: tourism. I was just wondering if there was added significance coming to D.C to see the cherry blossoms rather than your local park, which likely has them too.

I guess it's a thing for some people, not a thing for others. I just haven't seen other cities make as big a deal of it as DC does. So I was curious if I was missing something.

I'm seeing that it's all of the events that are also built around the cherry blossoms.

Sounds like they create a lot of events around it too.

Ok, I think I can see this.

Besides the hype, I feel like no other city has created an identity around cherry blossoms like DC has. All our sports teams have cherry blossom jerseys. Our metro cards and trains have cherry blossom designs. You'd think cherry blossoms were native to D.C but they're literally found in almost every other American city. I really don't understand it. There's much more culture and truly interesting things unique to D.C that I would think people would find much more interesting.