National Park Service

The three-year effort to completely rehabilitate Beach Drive from Rock Creek Parkway to the Maryland line is entering its final phase.

Hoping to take family and friends to the top of the Washington Monument this summer? Tell them to push off their visit until the end of the season.

The reopening of Washington Monument, scheduled for this spring, has been delayed because of the discovery of possibly contaminated underground soil, the National Park Service said Monday.

The Washington Monument will open in August, after having been closed for three years.

The cherry trees at the Tidal Basin look beautiful, but daily flooding at high tide and crumbling infrastructure are threatening their survival.

Significant safety changes have been approved for several spots along Rock Creek Parkway, including near the Kennedy Center and Memorial Bridge, where it can be tough for fast-moving cars to see people walking or biking.

The C&O Canal in Georgetown is one step closer to getting a massive upgrade.

In late 2017, Georgetown Heritage (GH), the National Park Service (NPS) and design firm James Corner Field Operations debuted ambitious design concepts for the revitalization of the C&O Canal in Georgetown. Since then, this team has…

Imagine jogging down the Rock Creek Park Trail and after the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, instead of a thicket of trees obscuring your view of the C&O Canal, there is a vista of the locks from a new platform over the confluence of the…

The National Park Service and nonprofits say the Tidal Basin could use up to $500 million in work

A modest crowd of about 30 people turned up at an open house at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center on April 3rd, which provided new insight on the complex’s future renovations by reviewing its Environmental Assessment (EA) and holding a…

The acting head of the National Park Service told Congress it could be three months before the agency decides whether to recover the costs of hosting thousands of protests held annually in the nation’s capital.

The National Park Service is parsing through a mountain of responses it received to a question it posed last year: Should the agency seek to recover the costs of supporting protests in Washington?

With the sun out and Washington’s cherry blossoms at peak bloom, visitors on Wednesday thronged the Tidal Basin, eating picnic lunches and taking selfies beneath some of the Mall’s 3,800 cherry trees.

It has been nearly a year since the popular and historic fountain at Meridian Hill Park was last turned on. Now, it’s looking like it will be at least several months before North America’s longest cascading fountain is flowing once again. …

Eight organizations have joined forces against a National Park Service proposal that would require activists to pay the government back for the cost of protests and limit where in Washington demonstrators can gather.

Better days are ahead for Franklin Park.