Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
The Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, informally called the Rock Creek Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. It runs next to the Potomac River and Rock Creek in a generally north–south direction, carrying four lanes of traffic from the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Memorial Bridge north to a junction with Beach Drive near Connecticut Avenue at Calvert Street, N.W., just south of the National Zoological Park.
View north on the parkway at the Lincoln Memorial Circle, including the sculpture group The Arts of Peace
View south at the north end of the parkway
Signage indicates the times during which the Parkway is one-way.
Aerial view of the L Street Bridge and Rock Creek Parkway Trail, at center, 1973
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, generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River.
The entrance to Rock Creek Park at its Maryland border entrance in 2010
Rock Creek
The park in winter
Rock Creek Nature Center and Planetarium