Early Spring Flowers
After a long and colorless winter, everyone welcomes that moment when first colors appear on the still brown-gray ground. It usually comes in early March.
April City Nature Challenge & Park Status
City Nature Challenge Friends of Wolf Trap will not be hosting a City Nature Challenge event this year. However, we encourage you... Read More
Wolf Trap Mammals
This page will be a repository of mammal photos from the Wolf Trap park (work in progress). For a more comprehensive coverage of our critters, check out the mammal section of the iNaturalist.
Wolf Trap Birds
This page will be a repository of bird photos from the Wolf Trap park (work in progress). For a more comprehensive coverage of our fliers, check out the bird section of the iNaturalist
Wolf Trap Reptiles
This page will be a repository of reptile photos from the Wolf Trap park (work in progress). For a more comprehensive coverage of our crawlers, check out the reptile section of the iNaturalist.
Stump Speech
It is Super Tuesday and that can only mean one thing. The primary season is in full swing and the park is ready.
Art & Nature
The dual purpose of Wolf Trap as a national park and a musical venue has its blueprint in the personality of its founder, Catherine Filene Shouse. Both nature and arts have always been an integral part of her life.
Painters in the Park
These days you don't have to be a paintbrush master to create an interesting painting. Software will create it for you from photographs.
Look Up, Look Down
When the Fall hits, there are colors everywhere. Of all the directions you can think of, the two most obvious are straight up and straight down.
Park in Full Fall Colors
If you come to the park in the second half of October, you will witness a true explosion of colors. Foliage in orange, yellow, red, purple... you name it.