Beyond the Capital of Washington, D.C., National Capital Parks-East is 13 park sites, parkways and statuary covering more than 8,000 acres of historic, cultural, and recreational parklands from Capitol Hill to the nearby Maryland suburbs.

Anacostia Park
Baltimore-Washington Parkway
Capitol Hill Parks
Carter G. Woodson Home NHS
Civil War Defenses of Washington - Fort Circle Parks
Fort Dupont Park
Fort Foote Park
Fort Washington Park
Frederick Douglass NHS
Greenbelt Park
Harmony Hall
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens
Langston Golf Course
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS
Oxon Cove Park/Oxon Hill Farm
Piscataway Park
Potomac Heritage Trail
Sewall Belmont House and Museum
Shepherd Parkway
Thomas Paine Memorial
Ukrainian Independence Park

Source: NPS Website (2020)

Establishment National Capital Parks — July 16, 1790

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The contents of brochures, site bulletins and trading cards (denoted with a colored caption) can be viewed by clicking on the cover. Most modern-day brochures, however, are cover only (denoted by a white caption) due to photograph copyrights. These items are historical in scope and are intended for educational purposes only; they are not meant as an aid for travel planning. The dates under each brochure do not reflect the complete range of years that a particular brochure was issued.

cover only Anacostia Water Trail National Capital Parks Captain John Smith Star-Spangled Banner 2014		Anacostia Water Trail Guide Date Unknown		Forts & Farms Date Unknown	Educator's Resource Guide 2011-2012 Educational & Interpretive Programs 2011
The National Colonial Farm Date Unknown	Trails Forever Date Unknown

A Socioeconomic Atlas for National Capital Parks (Jean E. McKendry, Cynthia A. Brewer and Steven D. Gardner, 2004)

A Study of the History of the Potomac River Valley (Walter S. Sanderlin, 1967)

Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and Monuments (Elaine McGee, 1995)

Administrative History, 1952-2005: National Capital Region (Robinson & Associates, Inc., June 6, 2008)

African American Experience Before Emancipation — Historic Context Narrative, National Park Service-National Capital Area (John Bedell and Andrew Wilkins, June 2022)

Battleground National Cemetery (May 1982)

Bikeway Planning & Design Manual, National Park Service/National Capital Region (undated)

Civilian Conservation Corps Activities in the National Capital Region of the National Park Service: Written Historical and Descriptive Data HABS DC-858 (Paul Dolinsky and John A. Burns, c2004)

Commemorative Works in the District of Columbia: Background and Practice R41658 (Jacob R. Strauss, Congressional Research Service, September 22, 2020)

Cultural Landscape Report: National Park Service Golf Courses in the District of Columbia, East Potomac Park, Langston, and Rock Creek: Treatment Guidelines (Maureen D. Joseph, Michael Commisso, H. Eliot Foulds, Michael W. Stachowicz and Daniel T. Weldon, June 2019)

Cultural Landscapes Inventory: Lincoln Park (2009)

Design and Maintenance Guidelines: Mission 66 Comfort Stations, National Capital Region, Washington, DC Final (Quinn Evans Architects, September 2019)

Ethnographic Resource Study: Subsistence Fishing on the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers (Shirley J. Fiske and Don Callaway, January 30, 2020)

Fossil Cyad National Monument: A History from Discovery to Deauthorization (Vincent L. Santucci, Cassi Knight and Michael Antonioni, from Dakoterra, v6, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fossil Resources, May 2014)

Foundation Document Overview, National Capital Parks — East, District of Columbia/Maryland (March 2019)

Geologic Resource Evaluation Report, National Capital Parks-East NPS Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR-2008/039 (T.L. Thornberry-Ehrlich, June 2008)

Guidelines for Hazardous Tree Policy NCR (undated)

Geology of the National Capital Region — Field Trip Guidebook U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1264 (Scott Southworth and William Burton, eds., 2004)

Historic Resource Study: Reconstruction and the Early Civil Rights Movement in the National Capital Area (Cheryl Janifer LaRoche and Patsy M. Fletcher, July 2021)

Historic Resource Study: West Potomac Park — A History, National Capital Parks, D.C.-VA.-MD. (Gordon Chappell, June 1973)

Historic Structure Report: Washington Canoe Club, 3700 Water Street NW, Washington, DC, Volume 1 — Site History, Existing Conditions, and Recommendations for Treatment (EHT Traceries, Inc., July 2021)

Judiciary Square, Washington, D.C.: A Park History (Joan H. Stanley, July 1968)

Junior Ranger Activity Booklet, National Capital Parks-East — Anacostia Watershed (Date Unknown; for reference purposes only)

Junior Ranger Program, National Capital Parks-East — Fort Circle Parks-East (Date Unknown; for reference purposes only)

Junior Ranger Climate Friendly Booklet, National Capital Parks-East (Date Unknown; for reference purposes only)

Junior Ranger Program, National Capital Parks-East (Date Unknown; for reference purposes only)

Junior Ranger Book, National Cherry Blossom Festival (2018; for reference purposes only)

Map: National Capital Parks-East (2006)

National Capital Area Archeological Overview and Survey Plan Occasional Report Series of the Regional Archeology Program No. 13, National Capital Region (Barbara J. Little, 1995)

National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form

Suitland Parkway (Jere L. Krakow, August 1993)

Natural Resource Condition Assessment, National Capital Parks-East, National Capital Region NPS Natural Resource Report NPS/NACE/NRR-2016/1197 (Brianne M. Walsh, Simon Costanzo, William C. Dennison, J. Patrick Campbell, Mark Lehman, Megan Nortrup, Mikailia Milton and Stephen Syphax, April 2016)

Newsletter (Central District): February 2012

Newspaper (Beyond the Capital)

2005: Fall

2006: Winter

2007: Spring • Summer • Fall

2008: Summer • Winter • Calendar of Events: Winter/Spring

2009: Summer • Fall

2010: Summer • Fall/Winter

2011: Summer

2012: Spring/Summer • Fall • Winter/Spring

2013: Summer • Fall

2014: Winter/Spring

Post-White-nose Syndrome Bat Communities in the National Capital Region, Part 1—Final Report NPS Natural Resource Report NPS/NCRO/NRR-2021/2319 (Sabrina Deeley, Samuel Freeze an Lindsay Rohrbaugh, October 2021)

Summer in the Parks (1968-1976); Special Ethnohistory Study (Felicia Garland-Jackson and Debra Lattanzi Shutika, 2020)

Thematic Framework for the History of Civil Rights in the National Capital Area (Cheryl Janifer LaRoche and Patsy Fletcher, September 2021)

The Current — The Newsletter of the Greater Washington National Parks: Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring 2007 • Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 2007

The Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees of Washington, D.C.: A Living Symbol of Friendship National Arboretum Contribution No. 4 (Roland M. Jefferson and Alan E. Fusonie, December 1977)

"They Have Erected a Neat Little Church": The Rural African American Experience, 1865-1900, in the National Capital Area — A Special History Study (Edith B. Wallace, October 2021)

Vital Signs Monitoring in the National Capital Region Network (Date Unknown)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

cover only Handbook #102 Washington DC: a traveler's guide to the District of Columbia and nearby attractions 1989

cover only The Washington DC Handbook 2012