NCP-East offers a wide array of historic, natural, and recreational areas of that are a part of Washington, D.C. and its eastern environs. The park includes 12 major park areas at 98 locations. Significant resources are as diverse as statuary, historic sites and buildings, recreation areas, parkways, archeological sites, tidal and non-tidal wetlands, meadows, and forests; and encompass over 8,000 acres. NCP-East extends north to Ann Arundel County at the northern end of the Baltimore/Washington Parkway, through Prince Georges County, and southeast to the southern part of Piscataway Park in Charles County, Maryland.

National Capital Parks-East includes:

Anacostia Park, Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Capital Hill Parks, Fort Circle Parks (Fort Dupont & others), Fort Washington Park, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Greenbelt Park, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill, Piscataway Park, Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site, Suitland Parkway, and other sites