Glenmont

Small historic family cemetery of the prominent Beall family, which owned a large estate in this area since at least 1716. Headstones date as far back as 1831. The cemetery is still owned today by the Beall family.

A private home that was built in 1810. The house was built with one-foot-thick brick walls with ox blood-based mortar. It has remnants of slave quarters and an icehouse, Occupants drank water from a spring that was located where the Robin Hood Swim Club's pool is now. The water was filtered through a sand-filled channel called a race, pumped to the house with a hydraulic ram, and stored in a 40-foot-tall wood tower. A Queen Anne-style addition was built around 1890.

Beautiful and expansive botanic gardens. Visit the butterfly pavilion in the summer months—otherwise just take the opportunity for a romantic stroll.

With tennis courts, a soccer pitch, a children's playground, and a picnic shelter, Glenfield Park is a great place to spend a nice day.

10-acre recreational park that has softball fields, tennis courts, a soccer pitch, a children's playground, and picnic areas.

Matthew Henson Trail is an 8-foot-wide (2.5-m) hard-surface hiking/biking trail. The trail starts in Glenmont and continues 4.5 miles (7 km) to the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail near Aspen Hill. The trail includes a 0.6-mile (1-km) wooden boardwalk through environmentally sensitive areas.

Hike through Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park along the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail Corridor's hard-surface and natural-surface trails. The trail begins in Glenmont and continues to Hyattsville, where it connects to the Anacostia River Trail. It begins with a 10-mile natural-surface trail, and it continues as a 2.7-mile hard-surface trail after the Beltway. The trail follows the Northwest Branch river edge, providing a feeling of walking through wilderness. The trail is planned to be extended further in the future. Bicycling is allowed only on the hard-surface trail; hiking is allowed everywhere.