After two years, a popular Hyattsville park has reopened with all-new playground equipment and seating.

Located at 4203 Gallatin St., next to the Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge, Robert J. King Park was closed since 2022 for major renovations and new landscaping to better handle stormwater.

The park is especially popular with younger students from nearby Hyattsville Elementary School and St. Jerome Academy and families from Hyattsville’s Historic District.

The new playground equipment emphasizes a nature theme, including large rocks with holes drilled so they can be threaded onto a metal sculpture and more wood instead of plastic.

The landscaping has also been redesigned to use native plants to absorb more rainfall and provide a home for birds and other wildlife.

There’s also a long curved reading bench near the park’s Little Free Library set back among trees, shrubs, and signs identifying native plants.

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