Fairfax County Park Authority officials are beefing up police presence at Scott’s Run Nature Preserve, the hilly, heavily wooded park that hugs the Potomac River, and authorities soon will be prohibiting parking along Georgetown Pike and some nearby neighborhood streets.

“Scott’s Run is being overrun,” Pedersen said. “It’s an estuary, a place with rare plants and trails that can be eroded easily. It’s really designed for passive recreational use. What we’re seeing is not anything like that: no masks, huge groups of people, drinking.”

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