What would you like to see at Poplar Point Park?

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Poplar Point is a prominent, 110-acre site in the District of Columbia across the Anacostia River from Nationals Park. It is owned by the federal government and managed by the National Park Service. It has a rich history, but today is largely fenced off from the public, overgrown and underutilized.

A 2006 federal law requires the transfer of Poplar Point to the District of Columbia when certain conditions are met. The two most important of these are finalization of a plan to clean up historic pollution on the site, and the Secretary of Interior’s approval of a land use plan to be developed by the DC government in consultation with the National Park Service.

The Citizen’s Poplar Point Working Group is a voluntary project to solicit public input and develop a citizen-driven plan for the site, particularly the 70-plus acres that the federal law requires to be permanently reserved for “park uses.” We have no affiliation with the government, or with any development interest. We are just citizens soliciting ideas for what should happen there in the public interest. Our hope is to influence Poplar Point’s future whenever the DC government decides to begin planning.