The National Park Service owns 90% of park land in D.C., and funding is highly unequal across the city.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, park use is generally up across the country, according to the Trust for Public Land.

ParkScore index shows 97 percent of Washintonians and 98 percent of Arlingtonians are within a 10-minute walk of a park.

Ninety-seven percent of Washingtonians are within a 10-minute walk of a park.

Residents of D.C. enjoy the sixth-best network of parks, as ranked by the Trust for Public Land.

Whether the National Mall, Rock Creek Park or some of the smaller pocket parks that dot the city’s landscape, D.C. has always been proud of its green spaces. And according to rankings published by the Trust for Public Land, D.C.’s parks are fifth-best in the nation.

This morning, Slate.com Moneybox blogger Matt Yglesias tweeted, “Watching Parks & Rec. Realizing there are no playgrounds in DC. National Park Service are history’s greatest monsters.”

According to a report by the Trust for Public Land, New York City leads the country in terms of parkland as a percentage of city area, coming in at 38,000 acres, or 19.5 percent of the city’s land. The District, though, is a close second, with 7,400 acres, or 19 percent of our land. Arlington squeezed into the top 10 with 1,800 acres, or 11.4 percent.