Environmental Expo

Come to Fort Hunt Park on Saturday April 27 between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for the 6th Annual Environment Expo. This free family-friendly festival will feature loads of activities! Attendees will be treated to live music live reptile and raptor demonstrations an elect......More

Come to Fort Hunt Park on Saturday April 27 between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for the 6th Annual Environment Expo. This free family-friendly festival will feature loads of activities! Attendees will be treated to live music live reptile and raptor demonstrations an electric vehicle showcase food face painting make & takes giveaways solar cooking CCTV Robot Camera Demos touch-a-truck the Purple Glass Monster and more. See a partial schedule of events below.Reptile Wonders: The Nature Center on the Go (11:00-3:00 / Live Demo at 1:00)Reptile Wonders mobile nature center returns with more than forty feet of animal cages! Check out the reptiles all day (11:00-3:00) and be sure to stop by for the hands-on demonstration at 1:00 PM.Secret Garden Birds and Bees: Raptor Show (12:00 & 2:00 PM)Meet owls hawks and other raptors up close and in person! Raptor shows will start inside Pavilion A at 12:00 and 2:00 PM.11: 00 AM Fort Hunt History Hike: The Great Depression CCC & World War IIDid you know that one of the DC area’s most active Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps was at Fort Hunt? Or that Fort Hunt was the headquarters of a top-secret military operation to help American prisoners of war escape captivity in Europe during the Second World War? Join a park ranger to learn Fort Hunt’s fascinating twentieth century history.12:00 PM Tour of Battery Mount VernonFort Hunt’s most prominent cultural resources are four coastal artillery batteries dating to the late 1800s. Walk the largest battery with a National Park Service volunteer to learn what it is and how it worked.2:00 PM Saving Ranger DanielHelp! Fort Hunt park ranger Daniel Blier has been captured. His whereabouts are unknown but he has left a series of encrypted messages to help find him. Children between the ages of five and thirteen will learn to decrypt coded messages like intelligence officers stationed at Fort Hunt during World War II and embark on a daring rescue mission. The valor of successful participants will be recognized with Junior Ranger hats and badges. Seats are limited registration is free but required.

Pavilion A at Fort Hunt Park.

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Freedom Concert

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the George Washington Memorial Parkway of the National Park Service will present the 3rd annual Freedom Concert at 4 p.m. May 5 at the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington Ridge Park, Arlington, Va.The Netherlands Carillon,......More

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the George Washington Memorial Parkway of the National Park Service will present the 3rd annual Freedom Concert at 4 p.m. May 5 at the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington Ridge Park, Arlington, Va.The Netherlands Carillon, a 127-foot-tall musical monument, is a symbol of friendship and freedom.As the Dutch government is in the midst of its “Slavery Memorial Year,” which remembers the atrocities of slavery and celebrates its abolition, this year’s event will reflect on the meaning of freedom.  Mary N. Elliott, curator at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, will give the keynote address. Carillonneur Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, will play a selection of spiritual and secular music.  The Freedom Concert also features Washington D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir. The Show Choir has performed at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and around the world. Superintendent Charles Cuvelier of the National Park Service’s George Washington Memorial Parkway and Dutch Ambassador Birgitta Tazelaar will give remarks as well.During the Freedom Concert, we celebrate and contemplate the multifaceted essence of freedom. The annual event is held on the Netherlands’ Liberation Day, which is celebrated on May 5. The Netherlands Carillon was presented to the people of the United States in 1952 in appreciation for US assistance during and after World War II.

Netherlands Carillon in Arlington Ridge Park

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall. 

Netherlands Carillon Practice Listening Hours

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a perf......More

On Sunday afternoons you may hear one of the park's associate carillonneur volunteers practicing in the Netherlands Carillon! Depending on volunteer availability musicians practice on the instrument on some Sundays anywhere in the 1:00-4:00 timeframe. This is not a performance you may hear musicians working on the same section of a song over and over or you may hear them repeat pieces throughout their practice session. For safety reasons the public is not allowed to ascend the Carillon tower. All listening must be enjoyed from ground level. Outside of practice hours there are two kinds of Netherlands Carillon Concerts: very short automated mini-concerts each day and longer performances by live musicians every summer or fall.