US Parks Horse Stables on the National Mall

There has to be more to it. We drove in to town today to see the new US Parks horse stables because they are only open on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Not only were we there for a morning walk, this was the third time we have tried to visit without any luck. So we parked by the tidal basin and walked to the MLK Memorial, then crossed independence avenue over to the stables. There was one horse standing out in front. When we walked in to the center, there was a volunteer who said we couldn’t go past the doors that happens to be the “working section.” What was left was a small room with not a lot to see. There was a looping video, a saddle, a couple of hats… I could see from the window a horse getting a brush down in the stables but couldn’t find any way to enter. When I looked it up on line it said there was the ability to interact with the horses in the stables. I’m not sure when the next time will be that we check this place out again. Maybe the next time we will walk around the entire place and see what we missed. Apparently there were 6-8 horses on site but we only saw two - from a distance. Needless to say we were a bit underwhelmed by the whole thing. There has got to be something we missed.