Horseback riding in District of Columbia

Horseback riding in Washington, D.C. centers on Rock Creek Park, the wooded stream valley that runs through the city’s northwest. The park maintains about 13 miles of bridle trails, and its horse center, run under a National Park Service concession near the park’s Nature Center, offers riding lessons, summer camps and therapeutic riding. For longer trail rides, riders head to the horse country of neighboring Maryland and Northern Virginia.