Rock Creek Park is a large urban natural area with public park facilities that bisects Washington, D.C. The park is administered by the National Park Service.
Read more about Rock Creek Park: Rock Creek Park, Peirce Mill, Montrose and Dumbarton Oaks Parks, Old Stone House, Administrative History
Famous quotes containing the words rock, creek and/or park:
“In the black of desire
we rock and grunt, grunt and
shine”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 9–12)