East Potomac Park is located south of the Jefferson Memorial and the 14th Street Bridge. Built on landfill between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel that connects to the Tidal Basin, the park is home to the East Potomac Golf Course, and the East Potomac Tennis Center.

The most dramatic feature of the park is a much larger than life five-piece sculpture called "The Awakening." It is pictured below and depicts a man seemingly arising from out of the ground as he stretches upon awakening. Tourists love to pose for pictures by climbing on the left hand or the head; and residents enjoy romantic walks here. In fact it is one of the more unique marrage proposal locations in the city.

"The Awakening" sculpture is located in the park at Hains Point. On weekend mornings, the roads and paths of East Potomac Park are very popular with lovers, bikers, walkers, inline skaters, and runners.

 Ohio Drive, which runs the perimeter of East Potomac Park, is also part of the Marine Corps Marathon course.

The park also contains a lot of Washington's famous cherry trees (or sakura). Many of the trees in the park are of the cultivar 'Kanzan', as opposed to the Yoshino which is around the Tidal Basin and celebrated during the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The Kanzan cherries have a different appearance and bloom about two weeks after the Yoshino cherry, which means they are only beginning to bloom when the Festival ends. These trees are located along Ohio Drive on the Potomac River side of the park.

East Potomac Park is accessible by road or Washington Metro. Parking is available all around Ohio Drive and at the parking lots south of the Jefferson Memorial. There is no Metro stop very close to the park but with a brief walk riders can access the park via the Smithsonian Station and the East Basin Dr Bridge, or the L'Enfant Plaza Station and the footpath on the Francis Case Memorial Bridge (I-395).

  circa 1935