My first region completed! There are currently 23 national park sites in our nation’s capital (exclusively), including Presidential memorials, war memorials, historic sites, and parks. The District of Columbia national park sites are the easiest to visit without using a carbon burning vehicle. The DC Metrorail cars are all electric, some of the DC Circulator $1 buses are electric, there are bicycles & electric scooters for rent, and most of the sites are in walking distance. I visited most on foot, some by metro and the rest by my Tesla 3 LR, which I drove from California.

The Presidential sites are The White House (see photo), the Washington Monument, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac National Memorial.

The war sites are the National World War I Memorial, the World War II National Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The only memorial site for a civilian is the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.

The historic sites are the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, and the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. (The first three of these sites have been closed for over a year, so I only visited the front steps).

The parks are Constitution Gardens, National Capital Parks—including Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens—, the National Mall, and Rock Creek Park.

I can’t choose favorites from a list like this with so many of our nation’s most important park sites, but I encourage you to click on the links and read my posts. Every post has a photo, although they are slow to load sometimes. There’s much to be learned from these special places. Of course, if you visit DC, you should also visit some of the Smithsonian museums and other great tourist sites.