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Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Created by Act of Congress in 1890, the park comprises 1,754 acres (2.74 mi 2, 7.10 km 2), generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River.
Just to the west, K Street crosses Rock Creek over the L Street Bridge, with the Whitehurst Freeway overhead and separate side bridges for the ramps to and from the northbound Parkway. After K Street, the parkway crosses Rock Creek, paralleling it to the west for a while. Sign indicates the times during which the Parkway is one-way.
The Rock Creek Trails are a series of trails through the Rock Creek valley and along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland.The main route extends 22 miles from Lake Needwood in Maryland to the Inlet Bridge in Washington, D.C., with a loop in the north part of Rock Creek Park and other trails through the Klingle Valley, Turkey Branch Valley, and along the North ...
Rock Creek runs for 31 miles from its source in Montgomery County, Maryland, to its mouth at the Potomac River, of which the final nine miles lies in Washington, D.C. The entirety of Rock Creek downstream of the Maryland border is within Rock Creek Park (except for a small portion that runs through the National Zoo). The crossings built after ...
Today, the grounds of the fort are administered by the U.S. National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park in the northern portion of the District of Columbia. [6] Extract from Topographical map, 1st Brigade, defenses north of Potomac, Washington, D.C., 1863, by Robert Adolfo Chodasiewicz [R. A. Hodasevich].
Map of Washington, D.C., with Crestwood highlighted in maroon The intersection of 17th and Webster Streets NW, in Crestwood, July 2021. Crestwood is an entirely residential neighborhood located in Northwest Washington, D.C., and bordered on three sides by Rock Creek Park.
The Boulder Bridge is a historic bridge located in the Washington, D.C. portion of Rock Creek Park, an urban national park listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Boulder Bridge was constructed in 1902 and carries Beach Drive across Rock Creek , a tributary of the Potomac River .
In the mid-1800s, the creek's valley was the location of the first road through the area that would become Rock Creek Park. Called Piney Branch Road or 14th Street Road, the narrow country way went north from the Mount Pleasant neighborhood down into the valley, across a rickety bridge just west of today's 16th Street Bridge, then climbed up to ...