There are two picnic areas at Piscataway Park.
NATIONAL COLONIAL FARM PICNIC AREA
Picnic tables are located just outside the farm Visitor Center. There is also a small covered pavilion that can be rented for those wanting to host a large picnic at the farm. See the Accokeek Foundation’s Rentals web page for more information.
MARSHALL HALL PICNIC AREA
There are a couple of picnic tables located under some shade trees near the ruins of Marshall Hall, a mansion dating from the mid-1700s, and a cement pad with a few more tables out in the sunshine on the grounds of the mansion. Next to the pad is a structure that looks like some sort of fountain, but it is actually an old, non-functioning grill. The area was an amusement park from the 1890s all the way until 1980, and during the late 1960s a large picnic pavilion was constructed. Maybe the grill and concrete pad are remnants of the old pavilion? Regardless, this certainly isn’t a place you would come to for a family outing, but instead serves those who stop at Marshall Hall to check out the old mansion ruins or to launch a boat at the nearby Marshall Hall Landing Boat Ramp.
Marshall Hall survived all the way until 1981, when somebody put a match to it and burned it down.
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Last updated on April 17, 2020