Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
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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.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway | |
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Route information | |
Maintained by NPS | |
Length | 2.9 mi[1] (4.7 km) |
Existed | 1944–present |
Restrictions | No trucks[2] |
Major junctions | |
South end | Lincoln Memorial Circle on the National Mall |
Major intersections |
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North end | Shoreham / Beach Drives in Rock Creek Park |
Location | |
Country | United States |
Federal district | District of Columbia |
Highway system | |
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Historic District | |
Location | Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, D.C. |
Coordinates | 38°54′47″N 77°3′16″W |
Area | 0 acres (0 ha) |
Built | 1889 |
Architect | Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.; Langdon, James G. |
Architectural style | Designed Historic Landscape |
MPS | Parkways of the National Capital Region MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 05000367[3] |
Added to NRHP | May 4, 2005 |
The Parkway was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2005. Built from 1923 to 1936, it is "one of the best-preserved examples of the earliest stage of motor parkway development".[4]
During rush hours, a reversible lane setup is used between Ohio Drive and Connecticut Avenue to permit all lanes to be used for the predominant direction of travel. More specifically, the Parkway is one-way southbound on weekdays from 6:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., and one-way northbound from 3:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.[5] The Parkway first became one-way during rush hours on Valentine's Day 1938.[6]