Capitol Hill Parks

Folger Park
The Capitol Hill Parks include several park areas east of the U.S. Capitol. Included in this group are Folger, Lincoln, Stanton, and Marion Parks, the Eastern Market and Potomac Avenue Metro stations, and several smaller land parcels such as Seward Square, Twining Square, the Maryland Avenue Triangles, the Pennsylvania Avenue Medians, and 59 inner-city triangles and squares.
Map showing location of park.
Image of the Bethune Memorial on a sunny day with wreaths places at the base of the memorial.
50th anniversary of Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial in Lincoln Park
Join the National Park Service at the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial in Lincoln Park on July 13. The memorial will be rededicated in a ceremony hosted by the National Park Service, with support from the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and Bethune-Cookman University.
National Park Service to improve turf at Lincoln Park this spring
The National Park Service (NPS) will overseed and aerate the grass in the center panel of Lincoln Park starting this spring. To help ensure the project’s success, the NPS will close the center panel of the park from May 3 to July 8.
Emancipation Group Memorial
Photo by NPS Photo/Kenneth Chandler
Sunlight streams through backlit trees illuminating a bicyclist on a sidewalk.
Photo by NPS / Claire Hassler
Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln standing over an enslaved man rising from kneeling.
Photo by NPS / Claire Hassler
Stanton
Photo by NPS Photo/Kenneth Chandler
Folger
Photo by NPS Photo/Kenneth Chandler
Bethune Memorial
Photo by NPS Photo/John T. Fowler, II
Marion
Photo by NPS Photo/Kenneth Chandler
Bronze statue of Mary McLeod Bethune and a boy and girl.
Photo by NPS / Claire Hassler