Join us as we celebrate the reopening of the Oxon Cove Trail with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 26 at 11:30 a.m.! The National Park Service, the Town of Forest Heights and Potomac Riverkeeper invite you to gather at the bridge along the Oxon Cove Trail — designed to connect the community of Forest Heights to the trail and provide a smoother, more scenic experience for all.
OXON HILL, Md. — The National Park Service invites the community to attend the annual Oxon Hill Farm Fall Festival on October 19, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The National Park Service (NPS) will invest more than $1.5 million for improvements to the Oxon Cove Hiker-Biker Trail at Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm in Prince George's County, Md. The project will resurface and rehabilitate the trail and replace a washed-out pedestrian bridge, reconnecting the Forest Heights community with Oxon Cove Park for the first time in years. Work will begin April 22, weather depending, and is expected to be completed by early fall 2024.
The National Park Service (NPS) will invest more than $5.6 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for deferred and preventative maintenance on 20 bridges along the Baltimore-Washington and Suitland parkways, and more than 25 other places to improve roads and parking lots at national parks in eastern Washington, D.C., and Maryland. These include repairs in Anacostia Park, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Oxon Hill Farm and Piscataway Park.
A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 6,675,119 visitors to national parks in Maryland spent $246.6 million in the state in 2021. That spending resulted in 2,940 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $344.3 million.