National Capital Parks - East
 Anacostia Park  Bethune Council House National Historic Site  Civil War Defenses of Washington (Fort Foote pictured)  Frederick Douglass National Historic Site  Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens  Oxon Hill Farm and Oxon Cove Park  Fort Washington Park  Greenbelt Park |
a multi-unit park of the National Capital Region (NCR).
NCP-East offers a wide array of historic, natural, and recreational areas of that are a part of Washington, D.C. and its eastern environs. The park includes 12 major park areas at 98 locations. Significant resources are as diverse as statuary, historic sites and buildings, recreation areas, parkways, archeological sites, tidal and non-tidal wetlands, meadows, and forests; and encompass over 8,000 acres. NCP-East extends north to Ann Arundel County at the northern end of the Baltimore/Washington Parkway, through Prince Georges County, and southeast to the southern part of Piscataway Park in Charles County, Maryland. Lands managed as units of NCP-East include:
Anacostia Park- which containsCivil War Defenses of Washington
Frederick Douglass National
Historic Site
NCP-East was established to
provide the guidance and support essential to effective
management of the natural, cultural, and recreational
resources within its boundaries in a manner keeping with
the spirit and mission of the National Park Service and
with the enabling legislation and other legal and
practical requirements of each park area.
For
information, contact National Capital Parks-East
Headquarters at (202)690-5185.
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