Battery Kemble Park & Glover Archbold Park

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    bus: D1 from Dupont Circle to Glover Park, D3 or D6 from Dupont Circle to Battery Kemble Park

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Glover is a sinuous, winding 190-acre park, extending from Van Ness St NW in the Tenleytown area down to the western border of Georgetown University. Further west, skinny Battery Kemble Park separates the wealthy Foxhall and Palisades neighborhoods of far northwestern DC. Managed by the National Park Service, the park preserves the site of a little two-gun battery that helped defend western DC against Confederate troops during the Civil War.

Glover follows the course of little Foundry Branch Creek, along which runs a pretty nature trail. Another good place to access this trail is Reservoir Rd, which crosses the park just north of the university. Battery Kemble is about a mile long but less than a quarter-mile wide.