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Meridian Hill Park, Washington, DC

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Meridian Hill Park

Sit by a 13-basin cascade fountain, find the Joan of Arc statue and hear the weekly drum circle in a terraced hilltop park.

16th Street NW between W Street and Euclid Street · Washington, DC

About Meridian Hill Park

Meridian Hill Park, also called Malcolm X Park, is a 12-acre terraced park in the Italian style on a hill 1.5 miles north of the White House, between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. Its 13-basin cascading fountain is one of the longest in North America, with a reflecting pool below. Statues include Dante and Joan of Arc, the only equestrian statue of a woman in Washington. A drum circle that began after Malcolm X's death in 1965 still meets in the park.

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