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National Parks in D.C., Maryland and Virginia D.C. Parks Chesapeake & Ohio National Historic Park Constitution Gardens (Southwest) Ford's Theatre (Northwest) Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (Southeast) Lincoln Memorial (The Mall) Mary McLeod Bethune Council House (Northwest) National Mall Pennsylvania Avenue National Historical Site (Northwest) Piscataway Park (Southeast) Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail ( Also in Md., Va., Pa.) Rock Creek Park Thomas Jefferson Memorial (The Mall) Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Mall) Washington Monument (The Mall) White House (Northwest) Maryland Parks Antietam National Battlefield (Sharpsburg) Appalachian National Scenic Trail (Also in D.C., Va., Pa.) Assateague Island National Seashore (Berlin) Catoctin Mountain Park (Thurmont) Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (Sharpsburg; Also in D.C., WVa.) Clara Barton National Historic Site (Glen Echo) Fort McHenry National Monument (Baltimore) Fort Washington Park (Southeast) Greenbelt Park (Greenbelt) Hampton National Historic Site (Towson) Monocacy National Battlefield (Frederick) Potomac National Scenic Trail (Also in D.C., Va., Pa.) Thomas Stone National Historical Site (Port Tobacco) Virginia Parks Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park (Appomattox) Robert E. Lee Memorial (McLean) Assateague Island National Seashore (Accomack County) Blue Ridge Parkway (Va. and N.C.) Booker T. Washington National Memorial (Hardy) Colonial National Historic Park (Yorktown) Cumberland Gap National Historic Park (Also in Ky., Tenn.) Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields (Fredericksburg) George Washington Birthplace National Memorial (Colonel Beach) George Washington Memorial Parkway (McLean) Green Springs National Historic Landmark District(Louisa) Harpers Ferry National Historic Park (Also in WVa., Md.) Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove (McLean) Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site (Richmond) Manassas National Battlefield Park (Manassas) Petersburg National Battlefield (Petersburg) Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (Also in Pa., Md., D.C.) Prince William Forest Park (Triangle) Richmond National Battlefield Park (Richmond) Shenandoah National Park (Luray) Theodore Roosevelt Island (McLean) Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts (Vienna) Back to the top