Travel do's and don'ts for DC cherry blossom season amid peak blooms: 'Pack your patience'

Mike Litterst, spokesperson for the National Park Service and its National Mall and Memorial Parks, told Fox News Digital that 70% of the trees around the tidal basin are in blossom. (See the video at the top of this article.)

"We've got some really warm temperatures right now," said Litterst. 

Each year the city hosts the National Cherry Blossom Festival, celebrating the blossoming of the trees that were gifted from Japan to this country in 1912.

The blossoms generally last for four weeks.

Litterst said it's always a big time of year when the D.C. blossoms hit their peak bloom time.

Litterst said that NPS does the best it can to prepare - but there are also a few things travelers can keep in mind.

He advised, "You always want to pack your patience, no matter how you're coming down here, because it is going to take you longer to get from point A to point B than you're thinking."

Fox News Digital also spoke with visitors this weekend who traveled to Washington to catch the peak blooms. 

"The trees are beautiful, but it's busy," said one woman. 

Another woman said the blossoms are "gorgeous."

"There's a lot of people. We were not expecting that many," said the husband.

Two 15-year-olds said that they'd traveled from Philadelphia and were seeing the blooms for the first time. 

"It's really busy, but I think it's worth it because it's so pretty," said one of them.

The other one shared her belief that they'd taken over 100 photos so far. 

"We're gonna take, like, over 1,000 more," the first one chimed in.

A man from Staten Island, New York, said it was his first time ever in Washington, D.C. 

"I think it's really beautiful and it's very nice to be here. It's very clean, everyone's friendly and the environment's nice," he said. 

National Cherry Blossom festivities run through April 13.