The station serves the residential suburb of Forest Glen, Maryland and is located at Georgia Avenue and Forest Glen Road. The station is the deepest in the system at 196 feet (60 meters) deep, so deep that no escalators supply access to the surface, the only station in the system without direct access. Instead, there is a bank of six elevators that supply very fast access (within 10 seconds) between the station and the surface.
Another architectural feature of this station is separate tunnels and platforms for each direction, instead of the large vaulting room seen at most other underground stations. This design, shared with Wheaton, was used to save money due to the station's depth.
Forests can be found in all regions capable of sustaining tree growth, at altitudes up to the tree-line, except where natural fire frequency is too high, or where the environment has been impaired by natural processes or by human activities.
Forests are differentiated from woodlands by the extent of canopy coverage: in a forest the branches and foliage of separate trees often meet or interlock, although there can be gaps of varying sizes within an area referred to as forest.
The scientific study of forests is referred to as forest ecology, while the management of forests is often referred to as forestry, often with the goal of sustainable resource extraction.
The WashingtonMetro, or simply Metro, is the public transportation system of Washington, D.C., and neighboring suburban communities in Maryland and Virginia, both inside and outside the Capital Beltway.
However, the deepest stations in the system are not in Washington, but at the northeastern end of the Red Line, with Wheaton having the longest escalator in the western hemisphere at 230 vertical feet (70 meters) and 508 feet long (155 meters) diagonally, and ForestGlen being even deeper than that.
ForestGlen Station is so deep (196 feet) that it has no escalators to its platform and is serviced only by elevators.
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