National Park Service

A short walk from the Minnesota Avenue Metro station in Ward 7 is a spot on the eastern bank of the Anacostia River called Kenilworth Park. Despite the name, a large section of the park currently has about as much in common with a vacant…

As DC resident Sarah Wagner tried to jog around the Tidal Basin on a sunny weekday afternoon in early March, she relished the monumental setting but noticed that she couldn’t actually use the paved path. “I love the monuments, I…

In his backyard in Congress Heights, Nathan Harrington has a collection of bowling balls. He found them in the woods. He doesn’t know for sure how the 10 or 12 colorful spheres ended up out there, but he guesses it has something to do…

Renovations to the boarded-up Chesapeake House — a historic but empty building in the southwest corner of Tenleytown’s Fort Reno Park — should be completed by 2020, National Park Service officials told community members at a recent meeting…

A proposed pedestrian and bike bridge that would link the U.S. National Arboretum and Kenilworth Park North, slated to be completed by 2022, is generating excitement among those who welcome a more convenient connection over the Anacostia…