Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a small, charming green space in SW Washington DC, located conveniently near the Le L’Enfant Metro and bike share. The park is known for its natural beauty, with magnificent trees, frequent sightings of ducks and dragonflies, and shaded grassy areas perfect for sitting or picnic-style dining. While it lacks benches and formal amenities, it offers wheelchair accessible entrances and parking, making it a pleasant urban reprieve with nearby food trucks and people-watching opportunities. The park is not fenced or specifically designed as a dog park, and it experiences some maintenance challenges and unauthorized parking on the grass.
Reviews
Surrounded by magnificent trees this is a pleasant reprieve from the hustle of SW DC. Bounded by C Street on the north, the railroad tracks on the south, 7th Street on the east and 9th Street on the west this park is large enough to get away from the noise of this very busy neighborhood. Being adjacent to Le L’Enfant Metro and a Capital Bikeshare stand makes access very convenient. If you happen to be here at lunch time you can sample a large variety of the famous DC food trucks that park along adjacent 7th Street and Maryland Ave. There are no benches in the park. If you don’t mind sitting in the grass you can find some shade and make this is a pleasant place to take your food truck meal.
Beautiful! Clean! At times you can see ducks! There are plenty of dragonflies to watch! You can sit down to read, eat and drink. Or you can people watch!!! Visit here every week day. Love it.
For two years random cars are parking on the grass at Hancock park and the amount of cars is increasing. People are parking on the park property (for free) during the day while at work/conducting business. They have destroyed the grass and beautiful park (tire tracks and mud everywhere). I ride the VRE everyday and walk through this park twice a day. Nobody is monitoring the park and removing or ticketing these people who are parking their cars on park property for free.
Could be a pretty spot alongside the railroad tracks, but it’s not well-maintained (railway & utility vehicles tear up about half of it), it’s not designed for active use (no chairs or anything to make it inviting), and it’s not programmed with any events or activities. It’s a forgotten park that isn’t even good enough to serve as a lunch spot for nearby office workers.
Attended a really cool “Be a Drummer for a Day” event here! Tiny little park with no amenities, but super close to the metro station and parking nearby. The group we saw was an all-woman Afro-Brazilian band playing Samba and Reggae. They brought enough instruments for everyone and taught the crowd their signature song “Batala”