Press Releases:

• November 17, 2005
  Public Notice Beach Drive Closed from Blagden Avenue to Park Road, NW November 21 & 22, 2005, 9:30 am to 2:30 pm Daily
  Rock Creek Park maintenance workers will be repairing road surfaces on Monday and Tuesday, November 21 and 22, 2005. Beach Drive will be closed between Blagden Avenue and Park Road, NW from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. each day to provide space for the equipment and allow personnel to work safely.
  
• November17,2005
  Public Notice Beach Drive Closed from Park Road to Piney Branch Parkway, NW November 23, 2005, 9:30 am to 2:30 pm
  Rock Creek Park maintenance workers will be repairing the road surface on Wednesday, November 23, 2005. Beach Drive will be closed between Park Road, NW and Piney Branch Parkway, NW from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. to provide space for the equipment and allow personnel to work safely.
  
  
• December 16, 2004
  Rock Creek Park receives grant from Kodak to develop new exhibits on the native people of the Rock Creek Valley.
  Washington, D.C. - Rock Creek Park Superintendent Adrienne A. Coleman announced today that Rock Creek Park will receive more than $4,900 worth of professional digital photography equipment from Kodak through the National Park Foundation as part of the Proud Partners of America's National Parks program.

• September 10, 2004
  Temporary Closure Of The Pedestrian Footbridge over the Normanstone Tributary.
  Pursuant to 36 CFR 1.5(a), Rock Creek National Park is closing the pedestrian footbridge over Normanstone tributary in order to replace the bridge. To protect public safety while the work occurs, the road the footbridge will be closed from September 13, 2004, until the work is finished.
  
  
• March 03, 2004
  Stream Restoration Activities in Rock Creek Park
  This Project is a result of the cooperative efforts of the National Park Service, the Maryland State Highway Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Virginia Department of Transportation, the District of Columbia Department of Health- Fisheries Division and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.

• December 22, 2003
  Partnership Project to Restore Fish Passage
  A long awaited project will begin this week in Rock Creek Park to remove or bypass several manmade barriers that for generations have prevented herring and other migratory fish from returning to primordial spawning areas that lie upriver.

• New Phone Numbers for Rock Creek Park
• Peirce Barn
• Peirce Mill Closure
• Partnership Project to Restore Fish Passage to Rock
Creek Begins

Volunteer Opportunities:

• Rock Creek Park
• National Park Service

Special Events:

- The Rock Creek Park Nature Center recently received a $500,000 grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to develop an educational partnership among six national parks in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, two school systems, several nonprofit organizations and a university. Called Bridging the Watershed, the partnership will use national parks in Potomac River watershed as learning laboratories for high school students.

Rock Creek Park Precollege Science Education Grant