Family Haunted Trail Hike

Family Haunted Trail Hike

Saturday, October 26th 2024

10a - 12p

George Washington Carver Trail @ Anacostia Community Museum

1901 Fort Place SE

Washington, DC 20020

Join Soul Trak for a Haunted Trail Hike for families on the George Washington Carver Trail in Southeast DC. Located adjacent to the Anacostia Community Museum, this easy .5 mile loop is a great hike for beginner hikers. This section of forest showcases the beauty and diversity of some of DC's greatest green spaces right here in Ward 8. 

Come dressed in your Halloween costumes to go trick-or-treating through the haunted forest! Enter your costume to win a prize in the costume contest.

10a -  Everyone arrives in costume! 

10:15 - Soul Trak Introductions

10:30 - Start the Haunted Trail Hike or Paint a Pumpkin

11:30 - Costume Contest Winners Crowned!

11:45 - Close out

There is also a farmer's market open at the museum plaza from 10a-2p. We also encourage families to check out the museum after the hike. 

Register now, and please indicate how many will be in your party so we can plan accordingly. 

About the trail: 

George Washington Carver (1864 –1943), was an African-American scientist, naturalist and professor who served as chairman of the Agriculture Department of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was an early promoter of cover crops and organic fertilizers, and promoted crops, like peanuts and sweet potatoes, that could provide affordable nutrition and restore soil depleted by decades of cotton growing. Carver was also an avid naturalist who constantly observed and recorded the natural world around him. The trail, created in the 1990s as a project of the Anacostia Community Museum, honors Dr. Carver’s legacy of reverence for nature and humans’ reliance upon it. 

Source: Ward 8 Woods