Man, It's Just Grass

For those of you who have driven south along the scenic GW Parkway, seen the exit sign for Fort Marcy and thought, "Oh, an old fort! How cool. I should pop in some time and get in touch with some historical culture in a lovely natural setting"-- be warned. Fort Marcy is nothing more than an area of grass where a fort used to stand. There are a few billboards that provide some less-than-interesting facts about said fort that no longer exists. And there is an arbitrarily-placed cannon that may be the National Park Service's lame attempt to make visitors feel like they are visiting a real fort. But the rest of your fort fantasies will have to be left to the imagination because Fort Marcy is just grass. And for those of you who visit the park to hike one of the two trails there, be also warned: one trail borders the loud GW Parkway and eventually semi-terminates into the highway; and the other trail, while less noisy, borders a garbage-strewn stream. So, basically, I would travel the two miles northward to Turkey Run Park instead.

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