Dog Days of August Walk - 2026
This is one of our favorite events of the year - our Dog Days of August Walk. Bring your doggie or get your doggie fix on this ~4-mile flat walk through woods and wetlands and along the Potomac River with views of Mount Vernon.
Piscataway Park is part of the National Park system and is run jointly with the Accokeek Foundation. The park is also home to National Colonial Farm, a living history museum that depicts a Maryland middle-class family farm on the eve of the American Revolution.
From the Accokeek Foundation website: "The Accokeek Foundation is located in Piscataway Park, within the traditional ancestral homelands of Piscataway People both past and present. We acknowledge and honor with gratitude the land and waterways, and the people who have stewarded this land through the generations. . . . By honoring the park's river location, the Piscataway people and the sacredness of this land, the Accokeek Foundation seeks to share with people and communities through nature, agriculture, cultural history and foodways, the value that this land and soil hold, including communities' reliance on it for sustenance."
Per Accokeek Foundation regulations, dogs must be on a leash under 10 feet long at all times, and "If your dog does its business anywhere along a trail or in a camping area, you need to pack it out."
We'll have a brown bag lunch in the picnic grove after our walk.
This free activity is open to members and non-members of Women Outdoors. Non-members are welcome to attend two WO events as guests. On your third event, we'll ask you to join the Mid-Atlantic Region of Women Outdoors. You can also join right now by clicking on this Join Us link.
Registration will close on Thursday, July 30.
Bring:
- Snacks and lots of water
- Brown bag lunch
- Hat/sunglasses
- Sun screen/bug spray
- Optional - National Park Service Passport to get it stamped.
Specific meeting location and inclement weather information. Your automatic confirmation email will provide the exact location where we will meet for the event. It will also provide information on possible cancellation if required by weather conditions. (Scroll all the way to the bottom of the email for specific details for this event.)
Please respect the trip leader and other participants and arrive on time - 10:00 a.m.
The automatic confirmation email is the only email you will receive about this event. Be sure and save it or print it out because there may not be good cell service at the event location.
RSVP and Cancellation – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ
If you register but then are unable to attend, please cancel your registration. Events may be cancelled due to lack of attendance, as well as changes in weather or other circumstances.
If you must cancel at the last minute, call or text the trip leader (see your confirmation email for contact details) and let her know who it is who is calling/texting.
To Cancel: Go to your Registration List
- Click on this event in your list.
- Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
- At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then again click on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
- Ignore the link to contact the administrator.
