Wonderful place to have a picnic. Bathrooms, really well landscaped, safe and a great view!
The only wadding pool around for both children and adults alike. This is the perfect park to enjoy a picnic and dip your toe into the fountain for a chance to cool off on a hot summer day. Read more.
Free concerts every Friday May 4th-Sept 14, 6:30 to 8:30pm. Food/drink available for purchase or bring a picnic. Best way to start the weekend!
Go in the spring/summer for the great drum circle. Nice view of the nation's capital. Nice place in the city for a picnic.Waterfall and fountain is unique.
Picnic and dance to the drum circle. If you see a man leading african dance, give him a hug for me!
Great place for a picnic! Visit on Sunday, around 3 pm.
The Bonsai Garden and old Capitol steps are my favorite. Find a nook in the Azalea or Dogwood gardens and have a picnic. Read more.
Bring a picnic and your camera. Breathe. Leave some of your heavy load behind. Read more.
Nice place to picnic but leave the yard games at home per park rules
One of the many picnic areas in Rock Creek Park. Read more.
This place was great for leisure hiking! Beautiful sites and many picnic areas.
If you're looking for old school DC nature and majesty then RCP is what you seek. Carving through the city like an artery from Mother Nature, it has everything: parks, paths, and solitude. Enjoy!
Great place to get your power walk on along the water. Also pack a picnic lunch and settle with a good book in the shade.
Golf course, mini-golf, a restaurant, a pool, plenty of green space, breeze off the river and a very nice secluded loop to bike, jog or just relax.
Great location to power walk, jog, bike, and/enjoy the view!
No DC trip is complete without a stop at the National Mall. It’s perfect for a mellow picnic, and you never know what events might be going on there, too!
No DC trip is complete without a stop at the National Mall. It’s perfect for a mellow picnic, and you never know what events might be going on there, too!
Location of many marathons and picnics, this area is a great sight to see all the monuments in close vicinity
Had a great picnic with Arbo in the park. Lots of dogs to play with.
Hands down best park in the city. Lots of room, several different fields, tennis courts, sledding hills, bathrooms, playground, picnic tables. Beautiful all year round. Lots of history here too!
Dogs run free here. The best dog park in the city.
Pack a lunch, set up a picnic and watch the world go by. All year round, Georgetown's beautiful waterfront is a centre of neighbourhood entertainment so there's always something to watch.
Surprisingly quiet for its proximity to everything
Love the new fountain at Wisconsin & Water! Perfect to run through on a hot day.
Bring a picnic and enjoy the beautiful view.
Great views! Can’t wait to come back for the fall foliage and cherry blossoms!
Springtime in DC and the annual Cherry Blossom festival, well, blossoms. Music, dance and parades are laid on to commemorate a 1912 gift to the city of 3,000 Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo.
Leash your animals! They eat picnics!
Yes, great place for dogs, but also a fixture amongst the hill families after school and on weekends. North playground for smaller kids and south for less small kids, not really for kids over 10yo.
The Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial stands in Lincoln Park. Sculpted by Robert Berks & dedicated in 1974. The first memorial in DC to honor an African-American leader. Learn more in the C-SPAN video. Read more.
Best place to have a picnic lunch when it's freezing outside. It can feel just a bit like spring again.
Have some desert the lemon tarts are tasty! The courtyard is a great place to meet up with friends or find a quiet place to surf the web on their free WiFi. Read more.
I love this courtyard as a study space! If your laptop runs out of battery there are a few tables on the 3rd floor and one has outlets.
Though tours to the top of the monument have been closed because of the earthquake, this place is great for picnics and admiring one of the nations most notable structures.
Great place for a picnic lunch.
This is a great place for a picnic and to take your friends who are visiting from out of town.
Great place for a picnic with views of Arlington and the airforce memorial. Watch the planes land at Reagan.
Park it at the tidal basin. Do you ever daydream of dropping water balloons all over those pedal-boating dummies? No? Just us?
UCLA hosts a summer picnic here every summer in mid-July! The bake off and summer games are a particular hit!
Public bocce courts are sweet
Great playground
This is a fabulous park/playground in the Capitol Hill area. Only 4 blocks from the Capitol and within one block of several restaurants. Great stop for the family if you want to have a picnic!
Great playground for the tots, and in the spring the cherry blossoms rival the Tidal Basin.
There's no official dog park here, but the east side has a nice, open area where neighborhood dogs and their owners congregate to hang out and play.
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