Cameron Run Regional Park
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Cameron Run Regional Park is a
regional park A regional park is an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreational use or other reason, and under the administration of a form of local government. Definition A regional park can be a special park distr ...
located on
Eisenhower Avenue Eisenhower Avenue station is a rapid transit station on the Yellow Line of the Washington Metro in Alexandria, Virginia. It opened on December 17, 1983. Location The station is located at Eisenhower Avenue near Stovall Street, next to the Ca ...
, near
Cameron Run Cameron Run is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 tributary stream of the Potomac River, located in the U.S. state of Virginia. A third-order stream, ...
, in
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, northern
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. It is protected and operated by the
NOVA Parks NOVA Parks (formerly named Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority) is an inter-jurisdictional organization that owns and operates more than 10,000 acres of woodlands, streams, parks, trails, nature reserves, rural, countryside and historic si ...
agency of
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, formerly the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority.


Features

The park features batting cages, a full 18 hole
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course, and a
waterpark A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimmin ...
. The waterpark, known as Great Waves, has a
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, a toddlers pool, and
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.


See also

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References


External links


NOVA Parks.org: official Cameron Run Regional Park website
NOVA Parks Parks in Alexandria, Virginia Regional parks in Virginia Water parks in Virginia {{AlexandriaVA-geo-stub