Hiking Trails in Washington DC

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The Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail was designated a unit of the National System by an act of Congress in...

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The Brookland section of Northeast Washington is a distinctive area that feels more like a separate community than ...

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Columbia Island came into being in 1916, when the Potomac River was dredged and the spoils piled up on the Virginia...

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Washington's stream valley parks are a world apart from the city streets that are within earshot throughout this 72...

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General Description Dogwood Trail is found along the western edge of the park off Park Central Road. The trail i...

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Metro-area hikers owe Theodore Roosevelt and his distant relative Franklin Delano Roosevelt at least a grateful nod...

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The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association purchased this 88.5-acre island in 1932 and dedicated it to the pub...

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For a short and exotic urban hike thats wonderfully non-urban, visit Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens and Park, on the An...

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The trail is a great, cheap, 3 day weekend (or less, depending how fast, and how far you want to go) getaway ...

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The 7.3-mile hike is a counterclockwise loop with about 1,100 feet of elevation change. It starts and ends in the r...

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The Capital Crescent Trail forms a large C-shaped arc that extends for 11 miles between Silver Spring and the Distr...

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Currently being developed. A hanful of climbers frequented the area during the mid 90's, and a number of the ...

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Ribbons of National Park Service (NPS) parkland carry this diversified, pleasant, and mostly off-street hike throug...

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This 335 acre park, formerly known as the Burling Tract, was the scene of much controversy in the 70s when thre...

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There are more than one hundred points of interest in and around the Washington area, along with numerous theaters ...

Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail