We’re talking, of course, about The National Mall in Washington, D.C. Consider that The National Mall typically gets more than 25 million visitors a year — more than to Yellowstone, Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks.
Good thing there is so much space — more than 26 miles of pedestrian sidewalks and 8 miles of bike trails stretching from the Potomac River in the west to Capitol Hill to the east.
We’ve had 46 presidents but only five have been honored with monuments on the National Mall. Can you guess which ones?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall is the first here not dedicated to a war, a president or a white man. Download the free National Parks app to DC’s national parks and sign on to become a junior ranger (ask at a monument’s ranger station for what you need to do! There may also be special ranger-led activities.)…