National Capital Parks
![A contemporary reprint of Samuel Hill's 1792 print of Ellicott's](/Images/godic/202501/29/Ellicott_plan4455.jpg")
The National Capital Parks is an official unit of the National Park System of the United States. It encompasses a variety of federally owned properties in the District of Columbia including memorials, monuments, parks, interiors of traffic circles and squares, triangles formed by irregular intersections, and other open spaces.