Fort Slocum Picnic Shelter Restoration Project

Rock Creek Conservancy celebrated the renovation completion in September 2021 with National Park Service representatives, ANC 4B06 Commissioner Tiffani Johnson, and local community members at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new picnic shelter will serve as a community gathering space and recreational amenity, along with the addition of a nearby pet waste station.

This was a dilapidated but much used picnic shelter at historic Fort Slocum, part of the National Park Service's Rock Creek Park. Through a public-private partnership led by Rock Creek Conservancy, community partners have provided the expertise, materials, and labor to install a new roof, flagstone paving, erosion control, and removed the rusty support beams.

Thanks to the generous support of our partners at Landis Architects and Builders for providing in-kind materials and labor working in partnership with other community partners listed below to make this restoration project possible. This is a great recreational amenity for the community and will now be require less maintenance and be more sustainable moving forward. Check out these photos of the work in progress.