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In 1986, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors sought to exercise greater control over the county's parks. [21] Faced with the potential loss of the Park Authority's charter, the Park Authority Board voted 5–3 in April 1986 to give up its power to appoint its employees and enter into contracts to the county Board of Supervisors. [ 21 ]
The Bull Run-Occoquan Trail begins (or ends) in this park, and continues upstream through Hemlock Overlook Regional Park to Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville.. The park's unique feature for Northern Virginia is the 10.9 miles (17.5 km) mountain biking trail which was improved and rehabilitated by the Fountainhead Project, funded by a grant, local and state government resources along with ...
NOVA Parks was founded in 1959, when Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the City of Falls Church decided to create an agency to protect the drinking water sources of the area, as well to provide passive recreation. Bluebells blooming in Bull Run Park
This is a list of Parks in Fairfax County, Virginia. Pages in category "Parks in Fairfax County, Virginia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Lake Fairfax Park is a park in Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA owned and maintained by the Fairfax County Park Authority. Contained within the park is the 18-acre (0.073 km 2 ) Lake Fairfax. The park also offers a waterpark, carousel, picnic areas, campgrounds, trails, playground and more.
The Fairfax County Park Authority maintains parks and recreation centers through the county. There are also two national protected areas that are inside the county at least in part, including Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge , George Washington Memorial Parkway , and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts .
The Packard Center opened in June 2018, [1] and was named after Jean R. Packard, an environmental activist and the former chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, as well as a long time NOVA Parks board member. She died in 2014. For sports recreation it has a paved bicycle path, a 5 km loop trail, athletic fields and a public marina.
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Mason Neck State Park is located in Fairfax County, Virginia . The park is on a peninsula formed by Pohick Bay on the north, Belmont Bay on the south and the Potomac River to the east, which was once known as "Dogue Neck" but now as "Mason Neck".