National Capital Parks-East
Administrative grouping of NPS sites east of the U.S. Capitol.
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Coordinates: 38°52′41″N 76°58′08″W (38.8780, -76.9690) · Open in OpenStreetMap
Coordinates and connected clubs: the infobox of Wikipedia: National Capital Parks-East (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map: drawn by Codexery from OpenStreetMap tiles.
National Capital Parks-East, often abbreviated as NACE, is a collection of National Park Service sites located east of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and in Maryland. Among the sites it groups together are Anacostia Park, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Buzzard Point Park and its marina, Capitol Hill Parks, the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, the Civil War Defenses of Washington’s Fort Circle Parks (which include the Civil War forts and connecting parkways from Fort Greble to Fort Mahan), Fort Davis Park, Fort Dupont Park, Fort Foote Park, Fort Stanton, Fort Washington Park, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Greenbelt Park, Harmony Hall, James Creek Marina, Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm, Oxon Run Parkway (an affiliated area), Piscataway Park, Shepherd Parkway, Suitland Parkway, and various NPS visitor contact facilities.
The headquarters for NACE sits at 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE, inside Anacostia Park. This building is not a visitor center but does have an information desk in its lobby and is open to the public from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
NPS Visitor Contact Facilities
The headquarters of National Capital Parks-East is at 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE, within Anacostia Park. It is not a visitor center but has an information desk in the lobby and is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Fort Washington Park has a Visitor Center that is open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, April through October. The rest of the year, it closes at 4:00 PM.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, April through October. The rest of the year, it closes at 4:30 PM. Greenbelt Park Ranger Station is open daily 8:00 AM to 3:45 PM. The Park Headquarters is open five days a week 8:00 AM to 3:45 PM.
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens bookstore and visitor center is open daily 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Kenilworth Park and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens grounds are open 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site is open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, April through October. The rest of the year, it closes at 4:30 PM.
Did You Know?
- Fort Washington Park’s Visitor Center is open daily 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM from April through October, and closes at 4:00 PM the rest of the year.
- Greenbelt Park’s Ranger Station is open daily 8:00 AM to 3:45 PM, while the Park Headquarters is open five days a week during the same hours.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: National Capital Parks-East (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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