Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens - Plan Your Visit (U.S. National Park Service)

At Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (1550 Anacostia Avenue, NE), water lilies and lotus take center stage each summer. There, additionally a changing pallet of water colors all year with fall foliage and winter birding.

At Kenilworth Park (Burroughs Street, NE) visitors paint life with the excitement of rugby on the athletic fields, or with the quiet of a gravel bottom stream.

Kenilworth Marsh is a natural work where raptors punctuate the winter sky and marsh wrens design their summer songs. Come by canoe or use the boardwalk and river trail accessed at the Aquatic Gardens.

air shot of Anacostia River, marsh and aquatic gardens with houses near by

Ron Dean

The Kenilworth and Kingman Lake Marshes, like the rest of Anacostia Park, are strategically located to prevent flooding of nearby homes and businesses and enhance recreation on the Anacostia River.

park photo

We still open at 7 each morning to some beautiful moon settings and sun rises.

There is construction at the Burroughs Street Kenilworth Avenue Intersections. Expect delays.