It is one of Washington's largest parks and protects an important sub-watershed of the Anacostia River.

The park is a popular place for picnics, nature walks, indoor ice skating, mountain bike riding, gardening, environmental education, music, skating, sports, and ranger-led Civil War programs.

These are the adjacent parks: Fort Dupont has a 40-year history of offering a summer concert series.

No further progress on the Drive was completed, wand by 1962 the idea was abandoned due to changes in the urban environment, right-of-way limitations and traffic on the cross streets.

[6] The 1968 Fort Circle Parks Master Plan was approved in 1974, but there was no further work on the project.

[2] In 2004, NPS updated its management plan for the parks and chose to replace the completed trail with a guided walking route between them.

[2] A 2010 report by the NCPC, NPS and DC called for a similar greenway connection between the forts.

The fort was a hexagon with 100-foot-long (30 m) sides; inside was a flag pole, deep well, officer quarters, and barracks, while outside was a guard house.