Whittier Woods Park

7400 Whittier Blvd, Bethesda, MD. Behind the Whittier Woods Center and adjacent to Walt Whitman High School. (map)

This park and the school it was attached to was torn down in 2020 to make way for an expansion of Walt Whitman High School.

This small neighborhood park has a playground, tennis courts, and a ball field.

This park is easy to miss. It is nestled right up to Walt Whitman High School, but the entrance is the parking lot to the Whittier Woods Center. The boundaries are also a little ambiguous. There is a soccer field right next to the ball field, but I think the soccer pitch goes with the high school. The good news is that on weekends you should be able to use the High school facilities which include many more tennis courts, basketball courts, and a nice running track.

The playground is ok, clearly not as good as some of the parks in the area. It is geared towards younger kids. There are two baby swings there, but no standard sized swings! The most interesting feature there is this little merry-go-round with three seats that you can put your kid on and push them around. There are some narrow evergreen trees that visually screen the high school from view, but the mulch covered playground area will be sunny most of the time.

Whittier Woods Center used to be an elementary school and it still looks like a 1960's era school.

Detailed park inventory

Playground Equipment

	Quantity	Condition	Description
Baby Swings	2	good
Standard Swings	0		The fact that they have no normal sized swings is worth noting.
Straight slides	2	good
Spiral slides	1	good
Climbing apparatus	1	good
Monkey Bars	1	ok
merry-go-round	1	good	Different than most of the parks around here, Three seats you can sit on.
Bridges	1	good	An intentionally wobbly one to practice balancing on.