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The authority gained control over the disused Fort Belvoir reservoir in March 1960 when it was awarded a 25-year lease to operate the 242-acre site as a public park and recreation facility. [7] The lake was renamed Lake Accotink. Appointed in November 1961, Joseph Brown became the second director of the Fairfax County Park authority in January ...
Clemyjontri Park [pronunciation?] is a 2-acre park in McLean, Virginia, opened in 2006, which boasts a setting for children of all abilities to congregate. [1] It is located in the McLean area of Fairfax County, Virginia at 6317 Georgetown Pike.
NOVA Parks (formerly named Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority) is an inter-jurisdictional organization that owns and operates more than 10,000 acres of woodlands, streams, parks, trails, nature reserves, countryside and historic sites in Northern Virginia in the United States.
Cameron Run Regional Park is a regional park located on Eisenhower Avenue, near Cameron Run, in Alexandria, northern Virginia. It is protected and operated by the NOVA Parks agency of Northern Virginia , formerly the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.
The Bull Run-Occoquan Trail begins (or ends) in this park, and continues upstream through Hemlock Overlook Regional Park to Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville.. The park's unique feature for Northern Virginia is the 10.9 miles (17.5 km) mountain biking trail which was improved and rehabilitated by the Fountainhead Project, funded by a grant, local and state government resources along with ...
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Fairfax, Virginia (/ ˈ f ɛər f æ k s / FAIR-faks), [a] is an independent city in Virginia and the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the population was 25,536.
Four years later, the Corps created a "Park Commission" whose mission was to plant some 60,000 trees throughout the city. [8] A reorganization of the Corps' city park unit in August 1876 led to better landscaping. [6] During this period, the city Commissioners and the Corps shared maintenance and other duties for the city's parks.