Virginia Avenue Park

Virginia Avenue Park is a park in Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic. Virginia Avenue Park is situated nearby to Barracks Row Community Garden, as well as near Calvary Christian Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include United States Capitol and National Museum of the United States Navy.

United States Capitol

Photo: Ottojula, Public domain.

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. United States Capitol is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Virginia Avenue Park.

National Museum of the United States Navy

Museum

Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain.

The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of the United States Navy is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Virginia Avenue Park.

Nationals Park

Stadium

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Nationals Park is a baseball stadium along the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals. Nationals Park is situated 1 mile west of Virginia Avenue Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Fairlawn.

Capitol Hill

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Capitol Hill is a venerable neighborhood just east of the Capitol building, best known as the main residence in the city for the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, and for the staffers who run the place.

Fairlawn

Neighborhood

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Fairlawn is a working class and middle class residential neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C., United States. It is bounded by Interstate 295, Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Minnesota Avenue SE, Naylor Road SE, and Good Hope Road SE.

Anacostia

Photo: Ron Coggswell, CC BY 2.0.

Anacostia is the popular name for the huge swathe of the capital consisting of the many neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. Its heart, in the small, historic neighborhood of Anacostia, is immediately across the Frederick Douglass Bridge from the Nationals Ballpark.

Virginia Avenue Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.87751° or 38° 52′ 39″ north

Longitude

-76.9927° or 76° 59′ 34″ west

Open location code

87C5V2H4+2W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 48207258

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Highlights include Barracks Row Community Garden and Calvary Christian Church.

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