Nationals Park Events
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Move beyond the standard coffee break with team bonding activities and group experiences that help attendees connect outside the meeting room.
Interactive challenges that encourage teamwork, problem-solving and healthy competition.
• Nationals’ Batting Cages: Feel the thrill of being a Major League Baseball player with batting practice inside the Nationals’ batting cages.
• Kraken Kourts & Skates: Level up camaraderie with pickleball, axe throwing, table tennis and ping pong.
• The Escape Game DC Penn Quarter and Georgetown: The interactive game unites attendees to solve a mystery. In Georgetown, try the Great Big Game Show for a taste of a TV–like game show experience.
More inspiration:
• Beat the Bomb: Interactive, team game
• Flight Club: Tech-enabled Social Darts and bites
• Pinstripes: Bowling, bocce and dining
• Puttery: Indoor mini golf, bar and restaurant
• SPIN Washington DC: Ping pong social club
• The Muni: Darts, putting games and bar
• Five Iron Golf: Indoor golf
• CitySwing: Golf studio
District Winery
Hands-on food and beverage outings that spark conversation and connection.
• Cooking Class: Galería is a private culinary event space in Union Market’s La Cosecha that offers customizable experiences, including pasta and dumpling making. Toscana Market in The Square on K Street also has corporate cooking class options and can travel to your location.
• Cocktail Class: The Four Seasons Hotel offers mixology classes Monday through Wednesday at their restaurant Bourbon Steak in Georgetown. Code Red in Adams Morgan hosts monthly cocktail classes to try out your bartender skills alongside colleagues.
• Interactive Wine Tasting: District Winery has a range of wine-centric activities from Trivial Wine Pursuit to Cheese and Wine Walkabout. Add a little flair by designing a label for your event, and bottles will be ready on the day of your event.
Unlimited Biking
Discover DC’s neighborhoods, public art and local history through guided excursions.
• DC Mural Tour: Dive deeper into the NoMa/Union Market and Adam Morgan neighborhoods through the stories painted on their walls. Jason, the founder, is uniquely in touch with the area’s artist community and adjusts his tour as the murals and graffiti changes.
• DC Cycling Concierge: Explore the city through trails, back roads and cycling routes. Jeff and the bike experts arrive right at your meeting spot ready to roll on your tailored route.
• Black Broadway Tour: Briana Thomas, historian and journalist, takes groups on a two-hour walking excursion through U Street to celebrate DC’s diverse communities, hidden gems and untold stories.
More Inspiration:
Engaging docent-led tours and immersive cultural experiences for groups.
All Smithsonian Museums in DC – with the exception of the African American History and Culture, the National Air and Space Museum and the National Zoo – offer free docent lead tours. For groups over 10 guests, reservations and appointments are required.
The National Gallery of Art also offers free daily tours highlighting different parts of the collection, including the Sculpture Garden. The museum does not offer large group tours but reach out to private tours, such as Art with Tosca, for a tailored group experience.
Attendees can become spies for the afternoon at the International Spy Museum with two public tours – United States of Espionage and Museum Highlights – led by knowledgeable volunteer docents. Private guided tours are also available.
More Inspiration:
• Tours by Foot (Library of Congress, National Archives, American History Museum)
• Unscripted Tours (National Archives, Library of Congress)
• Guide Service of Washington (Library of Congress, National Archives)
Volunteer and community engagement opportunities that allow groups to make a meaningful impact together.
• DC Central Kitchen: Work alongside front-line staff and Culinary Job Training students to cut, chop, peel and prep fresh produce to prepare balanced meals for the DC community.
• In the Parks: Groups can volunteer to clean up the National Mall. NPS also partners with the Rock Creek Conservatory, Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservatory, Washington Parks & People and Potomac Appalachian Trail Club for general trash clean up, invasive plant species removal and trail work.
More Inspiration:
• Bread for the City: Food pantry and clothing sorting and off-site opportunities
• SOME (So Others Might Eat): Serve meals to help break the cycle of poverty
• Capital Area Food Bank: Sort and pack food, plant in the garden, distribute fresh produce at the farmer’s markets
• Thrive DC: Prepare and serve meals, working in the food pantry, sort and distribute mail, organize donations
• Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center: Combat homelessness, food insecurity, environmental justice, asylum seeker and refugee justice
For more information or help organizing your next team building experience, contact DDC's services team.
