Oxon Run Parkway is the surviving northern section of a larger federal park corridor created in southeast Washington, D.C., through twentieth-century efforts to expand parkland, protect water resources, and control flooding. Land acquisition began after the National Capital Park and Planning Commission proposed stream-valley parks in the 1920s, and the corridor grew further after a destructive 1937 flood and the construction of the Oxon Run interceptor sewer. Part of former Camp Simms was later added, though old munitions from the rifle range complicated Green Line tunnel work in 1994. Today the remaining 146-acre tract preserves wetlands, floodplains, springs, forest, and the District’s only surviving McAtee magnolia bogs.

Washington, District of Columbia · USA