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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.
Aerial view of the L Street Bridge and Rock Creek Parkway Trail, at center, 1973. The Rock Creek Park Trail runs along the Parkway from the Lincoln Memorial to Connecticut Avenue, where it continues along Beach Drive to Broad Branch Road. The trail continues north along Beach from Joyce Road to Bingham Drive.
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 ...
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 ...
The William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center is a tennis venue located in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., United States It is named after William H. G. FitzGerald, a Washington-based private investor who was active in philanthropies and served as United States Ambassador to Ireland. It houses 15 hard courts and 10 clay courts.
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.
The 1.8-acre (7,300 m 2) park within the circle is owned and administered by the National Park Service through its Rock Creek Park unit. [2] [10] [1] Petworth Methodist Episcopal Church bought land at the southern intersection of Grant Circle and New Hampshire Avenue to build a new church. [11]
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.