Park
The Yards Park
Riverfront park built over a historic shipyard, with a shallow splash basin and dancing fountains.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Yards Park in Washington, D.C. traces this stretch of the Anacostia riverfront from the Washington Navy Yard, which forged guns and warships here from 1799 and employed as many as twenty-five thousand people during World War II, to landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg's 2010 redesign, which turned an old shipping canal into today's Canal Basin and Waterwall. It follows how that industrial waterway became a shallow splash basin instead of being filled in. Watch for the light tower blinking sixty feet above the fountains as evening falls.
This audio guide was created using AI.