text: College Park offers 11 parks maintained by the city and the Maryland-national capital park & planning commission. The most popular is Lake Artemesia, a 38-acre lake that includes aquatic gardens, fishing piers, and a 1.35 mile hiker-biker trail around the lake. The lake is considered to provide one of the best inland aquatic habitats in the DC suburban area for birds, hosting over 220 species. The trail around the lake connects to other heavily-used trails within the city that are part of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System and the East Coast Greenway, making College Park a regional activity hub. Other parks in the city include the Hollywood Gateway Park, a pocket park in North College Park that opened in 2020, and the Paint Branch Community Park which offers an 18-hole disc golf course.
  Runners and walkers from College Park and nearby communities gather most Saturdays for the College Park parkrun, a timed  event. With over 39,000 finishes, the College Park parkrun is estimated to be the largest event of its kind in the US.
  College Park has a strong culture of board gaming and game development. Wingspan was inspired by bird watching at Lake Artemesia and partially developed at Board and Brew, one of the oldest board game cafés in the United States. The city is the birthplace of Break My Game, a nonprofit organization that helps game developers improve their games by having experienced players play-test them.
  Other city attractions include the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), a tennis training center and preparatory school where top-10 player Frances Tiafoe was raised, the War Veterans Memorial, the Ellen E. Linson Splash Park, featuring slides, diving boards, and lap lanes, and the Herbert Wells Ice Rink, a semi-enclosed seasonal ice rink in the same facility.