National Park Service, National Capital Parks - East
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Phone: 202-690-5185
National Capital Parks-East is 13 park sites, parkways, and statuary covering more than 8,000 acres of historic, cultural, and recreational parklands from Capitol Hill to the nearby Maryland suburbs.
National Capital Parks - East comprises incredibly diverse sites where you can join a park ranger in cow milking; visit the home of the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass; see forts that were built to defend Washington, DC; hike on the trails; and much more.
Sites include:
Anacostia Park
Capitol Hill Parks
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
Fort Dupont Park
Fort Washington Park
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Greenbelt Park
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Langston Golf Course
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
Oxon Cove Park / Oxon Hill Farm
Piscataway Park
Sewall Belmont House and Museum
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Testimonials
This tour delivers the goods. Being raised just outside of washington d.c. (Bethesda), I've gone on innumerable DC sightseeing tours in my lifetime. Every time a family friend or relative visited from out of town meant another trip down to the Mall, another sightseeing tour. Monument tours, ghost tours, "Duck" tours, you name it I've done it. But out of all the DC tours I've been on this was one of the best. I went last weekend with my nieces and nephews on the Capitol Hill tour, which lasted a little over two hours. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable of the historic sites and presented the information in a fun and lively manner. His enthusiam for the subject was infectious. He had my nieces and nephews in rapt atttention from start to finish. Highly recommend.