New DC area LGBT group for dog owners

Welcome to LGBT Doggy Style: DC! We are a new group being set up to provide DC-area LGBT residents who own or care for dogs a network for social and support purposes.

Walter Reed Hospital (Old) and Holly Street Loop in Rock Creek Park

Walter Reed Hospital (Old) and Holly Street Loop in Rock Creek Park

Up in the upper part of the NW quadrant of DC is the former Walter Reed Hospital campus. Currently the grounds are closed to the public, but should be open again after the renovations and building conversions in 2013 or 2014 at the latest. The former hospital military base is in a very beautiful section of the city where the neighboring houses (especially on 15th and 16th streets between Aspen and Holly, all the down to Military even) are themselves worthy of viewing.

Brookside Nature Center

Brookside Nature Center

The Brookside Nature Center is located in the Wheaton Regional Park in Wheaton, north of Silver Spring. The park is also host to the Brookside Botanical Gardens, which unfortunately no longer allow dogs.

Brookside Nature Center -- Entrance

Fort DuPont Park

Fort DuPont Park

Fort DuPont Park is in SE DC on Minnesota Avenue not far from Pennsylvania Avenue. This spacious DC area park is a staple of long-time DC residents' summers.

Fort DuPont Park -- Trails

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

The aquatic gardens are on the opposite side of the Anacostia river from the National Arboretum, and are beautiful collection of aquatic flowers and wild life that many long time DC residents have never visited or even know of its existence.

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens -- Ponds

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island

A less-well known gem of a memorial in DC, the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial is located on a small island on the Potomac river between Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn.

Statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island, Washington DC

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