Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway

Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
Map of the District of Columbia with Rock Creek Parkway highlighted in red
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	I-66 in Foggy Bottom US 29 in West End
North end	Shoreham / Beach Drives in Rock Creek Park
Location
Country	United States
Federal district	District of Columbia
Highway system
Streets and Highways of Washington, DC Interstate US DC State-Named Streets
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°54′47″N 77°3′16″W / 38.91306°N 77.05444°W / 38.91306; -77.05444
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 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. During rush hours, the parkway is converted to one-way traffic corresponding to the peak direction of travel: southbound in the morning and northbound in the afternoon.

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]