Park Service presents options for Washington Monument security

The National Park Service today is updating the National Capital Planning Commission on its proposal to replace the existing temporary visitor screening facility at the Washington Monument with a permanent one.

The Park Service will present five options, four of which would dig a security facility into the mound sloping up to the monument — accessed by ramps and pathways — and require the monument’s elevator to be extended downward to meet visitors. A fifth option places the screening facility on the monument’s plaza.