Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens 

Location: Washington, DC 

Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010 

Time: 6:45 AM

Every year, NVPS schedules a field trip to Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens. It is a National Park Service site located in the northeastern corner of Washington DC. A homesick war veteran from Maine started the Aquatic Gardens as a hobby with a few wild waterlilies in a single pond. Time and diligence turned a trickle of curious visitors to a stream of customers for a growing commercial garden of twenty-eight ponds. The park is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna including waterlillies, lotus, wild flowers, blue herons, butterflies, dragonflies, etc... July 10th coincides with the annual festival. Parking might be a problem, so try to come early.

Address:

1550 Anacostia Avenue, NE, 

Washington, DC 20019

Information about the gardens can be found at http://www.nps.gov/keaq/index.htm

Directions:  

The National Park Service provides directions (including metro) to the gardens at http://www.nps.gov/keaq/planyourvisit/directions.htm.

If you are entering Washington D.C. On I-395,  continue on the SW/SE FWY towards its end and take the right exit on to Pennsylvania Ave SE.  After crossing the Anacostia river, turn left onto the DC-295N (Anacostia Fwy). Construction began around the beginning of February at the Eastern Avenue Overpass as the bridge is replaced. Expect detours. It may be advisable to take the Burroughs Street Exit and go left at the bottom of the ramp. If you go around the circle just past the overpasses and have a pink house with turquoise shutters on your right and an open area on your left that is Kenilworth Park Athletic fields, you are on the right road. After changing names as you go around the curve the road becomes Anacostia Avenue which will lead you to the Aquatic Gardens past a hand ball court, Rec Center and woods.

Marilyn Gaizband

Field-Trips@nospamnvps.org

703-560-8365 (H)

703-402-6214 (C)

Tuan Pham

Field-Trips@nospamnvps.org

703-354-3322 (H)