Farragut Square Park

A small park named after America’s first admiral, located at 17^th between K and I streets. Sometimes in the summer it has concerts. Lots of food trucks around lunch team. The vagrants can be pushy at times.

I love visiting this square when I’m in DC. There’s a variety of food trucks to suit everyone. It’s a great spot to sit and have lunch and people watch.

I worked a couple blocks away, so I spent my lunch breaks here a few times a week. The food trucks around are really good. The area is usually pretty busy and packed with people.

Besides crossing through here when going to or from either Farragut metro station, I’ve been coming here for the Golden Triangle Bid’s Pilates in the Park. They manage to hold a one hour workout class in one of the grassy areas of the park as commuters are heading home. The area itself has some greenery, intersecting paths, and benches if you just want to take in the area and/​or people watch. Probably not the most relaxing spot in DC, but a nice break area in the midst of the K Street hustle and bustle.

Food trucks galore snake around Farragut Square during weekday lunch hours. Although not the cheapest option, food trucks support local businesses and gets you two thumbs up. Plenty of open grass space and benches to sit on while you eat. However, the experience of eating food out here is diminished by all of the homeless people walking around. If you can overlook that, you’ll have a pleasant experience.

On a lovely summer day, you will see the park packed with people from nearby work establishments having lunch and pigeons looking for left-​overs. The park is a major stop for food trucks so it makes for a good spot to pick up and eat lunch. During winters, food trucks are few and so are people. I feel bad for the stray pigeons, understandably so.

If you want to see the world pass you by, then grab your food from one of the 20 food trucks on Fridays surrounding this park, take a seat and watch the show. It really is neat watching everything going on at one. It has the historical significance too.
The name sake of the Farragut Square is after David Farragut who was a prominent Union Navy Admiral. The statue in the center is that of the admiral dedicated in 1881. All of this info is provided via a park sign in the park. I happened to enjoy dining on my cheese steak sandwich along with a few other patrons on the bottom of the statue that is actually fenced in. It was pretty amusing seeing all the girls including myself trying to get over the fence gracefully with out dresses on. I was lucky i didn’t get my snagged like I saw a couple of other people suffer from.
The square is fairly large. It is situated in the middle of the bustling businesses and commercial district. Primal for watching the time pass by when having fun. The park does empty out pretty quickly during the evening hours. However, during the summer months they have tried to add some evening activities such as the free «Farragut Sounds in the Square» jazz concert series, held every Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. from July 3^th to August 19^th. I have yet to experience this, but definitely plan to once that time rolls around.
I really like this park! Though it has nothing much else beyond a few benches and a statue, it is smack dab in the middle of everything to get a full panoramic of the cityscape.

I had the pleasure of working in the Farragut area for a while, and I spent as much time as I could in this park.
It has tons of benches, greenery, paths that cut through it going to any destination you’d like, and of course: FOOD TRUCKS! (well probably not so much in the cold months). It’s a great spot to grab a bite to eat or sit down and enjoy your own. Also, it is a fabulous spot to people-​watch! Especially in the summertime when you can view hoards of tourists zipping about here and there, constantly looking at a map on their iPhone and trying to be discrete about it!
Not much room for any sort of sport/​physical activity though — keep that to the National Mall!