If you want to understand why people settled here in the first place, walk the trails and sit by the water—the Potomac reveals itself slowly, and the land feels less like a park and more like the reason Washington exists at all.
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Birdwatchers and anyone who wants to remember that DC's landscape was shaped by Depression-era conservation find themselves drawn back to this marsh, where the CCC's 1930s work still frames what herons and egrets see.