Capitol Hill Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

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The Capitol Hill Parks

Capitol Hill Parks includes those park areas between 2nd Streets NE and SE and the Anacostia River. Included in this group are Folger, Lincoln, and Marion Parks, the Maryland Avenue Triangles, the Pennsylvania Avenue Medians, the Eastern Market Metro Station, the Potomac Avenue Metro Station, Seward Square, Twining Square, Stanton Park, and 59 inner-city triangles and squares.

The Triangle at Massachusetts Ave, 2nd and D Streets, NE. One of the units of Capitol Hill Parks.

Why so many parks?

When Pierre L'Enfant submitted his design for the Capital City of Washington in 1790, a system of grand avenues, public buildings and grounds dominated the overall plan. Many of the parks, medians, circles, squares and triangles of Capitol Hill Parks evolved from this plan and its subsequent modification, in 1901, by the McMillan Commission.

Their purpose is to provide urban greenspace within the City of Washington for relaxation, aesthetic enjoyment, and historic commemoration.

Equestrian statue of General Nathanael Greene, in Stanton Park

The Major Parks

There are four "major" or large parks in the Capitol Hill Parks constellation. Follow the links below to information about each of them:

Write to

National Capital Parks-East Headquarters
1900 Anacostia Drive, SE
Washington, DC 20020-6722

Phone

For More Information
(202) 690-5185

Climate

Summer weather in the DC area can be very humid. Please be sure to drink lots of water, do not over-exert yourself, and take your time walking from site to site.

Ice storms in the winter can make travel challenging, and walking in the parks dangerous, but are not the norm.