THE MANY PARKS OF ROCK CREEK

meridian hill park

Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, is an urban park in Washington, D.C., located in the Meridian Hill neighborhood that straddles the border between Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. The park is 11.88 acres and is bounded by 15th, 16th, W, and Euclid Streets NW.

Meridian Hill Park is known for it’s fountain with cascading water.

Dumbarton Oaks Park

The Dumbarton Oaks Park is a public park, located in the 3100 block of R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood.

Now part of Rock Creek Park, it originally belonged to the Dumbarton Oaks estate which had designed it as an enhanced "natural" area. In the 2020s the National Park Service worked with the estate to restore and preserve the landscape architecture of Beatrix Farrand in the park.

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