The colorful heron only visits the District every few years.

Grab a paddle and a trash picker and hit the water!

For city-dwellers, a camping trip usually means packing up the car with gear and driving a few hours. But what if you could spend a night in the wilderness, in the middle of the city?

An inconvenient heap of river-bottom silt was home to dump and a squatters colony before its rebirth as a nature refuge and host of a wildly popular annual concert.

The fourth annual Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival kicks off tomorrow at 1 p.m.

A bluegrass and folk festival set for tomorrow seeks to raise awareness of two relatively unknown islands and the Anacostia River that they occupy.