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View north on the parkway at the Lincoln Memorial Circle, including the sculpture group The Arts of Peace Time-lapse video of a northbound trip on the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and Beach Drive The Parkway has two points of origination on its southern end, one at the traffic circle around the Lincoln Memorial , and the other at the ...
Rock Creek Park is the oldest natural urban park in the National Park System. [8] Park construction began in 1897. [4] In 1913, Congress authorized creation of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and extended the park along a narrow corridor from the zoo to the mouth of Rock Creek at the Potomac River. [9]
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 ...
Several crossings of Rock Creek in 1973. From top to bottom: M Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, L Street Bridge, and an outlying span of K Street Bridge Time-lapse video of a trip on the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and Beach Drive in 2015. Many crossings of Rock Creek are visible. This is a list of crossings of Rock Creek.
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To Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway north / 27th Street NW west / I-66: No northbound access to Rock Creek Parkway; eastern terminus of Whitehurst Freeway: 1.0: 1.6: K Street NW west: Southbound exit and northbound entrance: 1.3: 2.1: Tunnel underneath Washington Circle: Shaw: 3.1: 5.0: US 1 (Rhode Island Avenue NW east / 6th Street NW south)
The original 1908 plans had the parkway cross from the west to the east side of Rock Creek farther north, near Lyons Mill. Frederick Law Olmsted opposed having the parkway run on the east side north of Q Street, due to the extensive grading required to accommodate the steepness of the valley at that point. The retaining walls that were built to ...
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 ...