It is hard to beat

a 360 acre planned community,
constructed around a 6-acre park,
with elevated views that extend to the horizon.

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Fort Lincoln has a little bit of everything.

Fort Lincoln cannot be pigeonholed as suburban, or urban, because it combines the best of both. First and foremost, is its place in nature. On the northeastern border of Washington, D.C., where suburban Maryland and its parks begin, it explodes in the Spring and Summer with a canopy of foliage as far as the eye can see.

Fort Lincoln Park

Located high on a ridge overlooking Washington, D.C. from the northeast, the 6-acre Fort Lincoln Park, has five open-air pavilions high above street level, that are surrounded by tennis courts, baseball diamonds, swimming pool, soccer and basketball courts. And the park, itself, is being treated to a $10 million dollar facelift to also serve as a natural venue for evening outdoor entertainment and picnicking.

Nestled between seventeen different housing developments, Fort Lincoln Park meshes with the natural landscape and forested paths that connect it to the community’s largest townhome development.

Fort Lincoln Shopping Center

And, if you desire retail therapy, Fort Lincoln has an adjoining 26-store shopping center, with clothing, furnishing, fast food and sit down restaurants, a pet supply store, and sporting, health food and home improvement retailers who complement D.C’s only Costco.

The Future of Fort Lincoln

$20 million has been dedicated to the planning and construction of an adjoining state-of-the-art community center tailored to the needs of this now 5,400 person community. The Fort Lincoln Civic Association is lobbying to provide a facelift for the Hagans Cultural Center, which is dedicated to the District’s largest senior population.

Playing a coordinative role, to ensure this racially, economically and age-diverse community meets the needs and achieves the goals set by the administration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the 1970s for a model planned community, is the Fort Lincoln Civic Association. Its 17-member Board of Directors represents the seventeen housing developments in and contiguous to the 360 acre planned community.

All have an appreciation for, and dedication to, preserving and enhancing the green space that defines and distinguishes this suburban-urban oasis.

Directions to Fort Lincoln

Directions From North (New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore): Drive south on Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Take the exit toward Bladensburg Road. Merge onto MD-450 w/Annapolis Road. Continue onto Bladensburg Road. Turn left onto Ft. Lincoln Dr NE.

Directions from South (Richmond): Drive north on I-95N. Slight right onto Interstate 395 Connector N/Interstate 95 Connector N (signs for I-395N/I-495 N/Washington/Tysons Corner) Continue onto I-395 N Take the exit on the left onto I-395 N (Entering District of Columbia) Take the Interstate 395 N exit toward Capitol Hill/Verizon Centre/Nationals Park Merge onto I-395 N. Take exit 6 for Interstate 395 N toward D Street Northwest/U.S. Senate/C Street Southwest/U.S. Capitol the House. Keep right at the fork. Turn right onto New York Ave NW. Slight left toward Bladensburg Rd NE. Slight left onto Bladensburg Rd NE. Turn right onto Eastern Avenue/Fort Lincoln Drive, NE.

Navigating Around Fort Lincoln

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