Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Lotus and water-lily ponds, a broad marsh boardwalk, wildlife, and detailed mobility guidance make Kenilworth a distinctive seasonal nature outing with important flood and surface caveats.
- Best for
- Lotus ponds + boardwalk
- Boardwalk
- ¼ mi + over 7 ft wide
- Peak bloom
- Usually late Jun–Jul
- Access support
- 4 spaces + 2 loaner chairs
Location
1550 Anacostia Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20019
Kenilworth · Directions
Kenilworth combines lotus and water-lily ponds with a pond-trail network, a quarter-mile tidal-marsh boardwalk, a Garden Trail, a river trail, wildlife viewing, picnic space, a visitor center, and restrooms.
NPS provides unusually specific mobility details: four accessible parking spaces and two loaner wheelchairs, but also gravel, grass, dirt, flooding exposure, some boardwalk sections without handrails, and avoidable or unavoidable slopes up to 10% depending on the route.