National Park System units in District of Columbia
The District of Columbia has 26 National Park System units. The list below also includes 10 places the Park Service does not count as units of their own. Each one has its own page here with hours, current alerts, campgrounds and what there is to do.
District of Columbia in figures
- National Park System units
- 26
- Free to enter
- 25
- Recreation visits in 2025
- 42,388,153
- Busiest unit, 7,743,295 visits
- Lincoln Memorial
- Campgrounds
- 37
A unit that reaches into another state counts in full here and in each other state it touches.
The visit total leaves out 5 units that report no 2025 count.
Free to enter Charges an entrance feePoints are the Park Service reference point for each unit, not a boundary.
Parks near a city
Visits by year
Lincoln MemorialGeorge Washington Memorial ParkwayVietnam Veterans MemorialChesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical ParkWorld War II MemorialKorean War Veterans MemorialMartin Luther King, Jr. MemorialFranklin Delano Roosevelt MemorialRock Creek ParkWorld War I MemorialDwight D. Eisenhower MemorialFord's Theatre National Historic SiteThe White House and President's ParkLBJ Memorial Grove on the PotomacWashington MonumentTheodore Roosevelt IslandPennsylvania AvenueFrederick Douglass National Historic SiteBelmont-Paul Women's Equality National MonumentMary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic SiteCarter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
Fees, hours, alerts, campgrounds and activities are from the NPS API. Data refreshed October 14, 2026.