107 homes recorded in 1968 on a bend of the Potomac, sharing a boundary with the grounds of the Mount Vernon Estate.
Riverwood is a 107-address subdivision recorded on March 10, 1968 at Deed Book 3154, page 18, in Alexandria 22309, set between the grounds of George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and the Potomac. That boundary is much of the point of the place: on one side is preserved estate land that will not be built on, on the other is the river. Houses sit on Riverwood Road, Old Mansion Road, Carriage House Court and Ferry Landing Court, with a median lot of 0.39 acre. A Section 2 resubdivision recorded in November 2011 at Deed Book 21978, page 1206 shows the plat has been reworked in the modern era, so the lot lines are not uniformly as they were drawn in 1968 — read the current plat, not the original.
There are Riverwoods in a dozen states and more than one in the mid-Atlantic, and listing aggregators do not always keep them apart. When you search, pair the name with Mount Vernon or with the 22309 ZIP code, and check the recorded subdivision on any listing you are serious about. This page covers the Fairfax County plat recorded in 1968 next to the estate grounds, and nothing else.
The southern edge of the subdivision falls inside a Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area. Anything at the shoreline — a dock, a bulkhead, meaningful clearing — needs Fairfax County approval and a Water Quality Impact Assessment, and the buffer restricts land disturbance regardless of what has been done informally in the past. The community is on public sewer throughout, so the septic-driven ceilings on bedroom counts and additions that apply elsewhere in south Fairfax do not apply here. For a riverside lot, that combination — public sewer, restricted buffer — is the shape of the constraint.
The Riverwood homeowners association is a listed member of the Mount Vernon Council of Citizens' Associations. Past that, the association's own website is gated to members, which means the amenity claims that circulate on aggregator pages — a private beach lot, a playground, a picnic area — cannot be verified from a public source, and we are not going to publish them as fact on a broker's site. The resale packet is the document that settles it: it will state the assessment, the covenants and exactly what common property the association owns. Request it early enough to read inside the statutory review period.
Riverwood addresses are served by Washington Mill Elementary School, Walt Whitman Middle School and Mount Vernon High School — the same pyramid as neighboring Mount Vernon on the Potomac. Fairfax County Public Schools approved boundary changes in January 2026 effective for the 2026-27 school year, so verify a specific address in the FCPS boundary locator before relying on it.
Riverwood is at the far south end of the residential Mount Vernon area, near the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway end of the George Washington Memorial Parkway — a National Park Service road rather than a state highway, with the paved Mount Vernon Trail running north from the estate toward Belle Haven, Old Town and Arlington. There is no Metro station inside the area; Huntington, the southern terminus of the Yellow Line, is the nearest rail, reached by Fort Hunt Road, North Kings Highway or Richmond Highway. Travel times swing sharply by hour and route here, so drive the actual commute at the actual departure time before committing to a street.
Riverwood (Mount Vernon) sits within Mount Vernon — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
