Hains Point Tourist Map
Description:
This map shows tourist information centers, shops, parking lots, picnic areas, and tourist attractions in East Potomac Park.
About Hains Point
Hains Point is the southern tip of East Potomac Park, a man-made peninsula in Southwest Washington between the Washington Channel and the Potomac River. The land was created by dredging and filling the Potomac Flats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the point is named for Major General Peter Conover Hains, the Army engineer who directed the work.
The park is part of National Mall and Memorial Parks and is reached by a single road that forms a roughly three-mile loop around the peninsula, popular with cyclists, runners and drivers. It holds the East Potomac Golf Links, a public course dating to the early 20th century, a tennis center and a public swimming pool, and the ground is planted with cherry trees.
The point offers open views across the Potomac toward Virginia and of aircraft on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The 17-foot aluminum sculpture The Awakening stood there from 1980 to 2008 before being moved to National Harbor, Maryland.
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