Wood Acres is a community of about 450 families full of children and dogs. Our kids attend Wood Acres Elementary School, Pyle Middle School and one of the best public high schools in the nation - Walt Whitman High School. There are a wide range of community events including the Easter Egg Roll, the Jog Fest in May and the annual 4th of July parade now in its 60th year. Halloween is one of the most
special nights of the year with the arrival of the Great Pumpkin with hundreds of children able to trick or treat on blocked off roads. Santa Claus arrives every holiday season on the back of a GEFD fire truck. The Jingle Bells Dog walk now in its eight year is a new neighborhood tradition and is held on the first weekend of December just as Christmas inflatables start popping up on neighborhood lawns. The families on Wood Acres Drive led by Joe Payne have held a block party for past 20 years and in 2017 the community association held the first Wood Acres Beer Festival to raise $$ for the 4th of July parade. To survive the pandemic we have held pop up concerts all through the summer and have had numerous food trucks come to Wood Acres every week. We live in a great location just 5 minutes from the Glen Echo Park and the Westbard shopping center, 10 minutes from the Spring Valley shopping center and just a short ride up River Road and the Beltway to the Westfield Mall and Home Depot. However, if there is ever a nuclear attack on D.C. we're toast because the National Intelligence University campus is a just mile away. Other then that we live in a very happy community.
