• Rock Creek

    Rock Creek

    Park District of Columbia

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  • Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Road Closures and Construction update Winter 2013

    Construction work on Rock Creek Parkway at Waterside Drive has resumed. Work will continue into Spring 2013. Delays are expected as lane closures occur to accomodate work. More »

Plan A Field Trip

Curriculum Based Education Programs at Rock Creek Park

Extend classroom learning into the great outdoors!

Touch live animals. Look up at the stars. Hike to a stream. These experiences and many others have been incorporated into curriculum based programs now available at the Nature Center.

Visit a historic flour mill, a 17th century colonial home or a civil war fort.

For more information and to schedule a program for your school or group, please call (202) 895-6070 Wednesday-Sunday, at least two weeks in advance.

Did You Know?

Presdent Lincoln

President Lincoln came under enemy fire on July 12, 1864 at the Battle of Fort Stevens in northern Washington, DC.