Rock Creek Park & DC's Hidden Natural Escape

Rock Creek Park (the 1,754-acre (710-hectare) national park within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, established 1890 — the third-oldest national park in the United States (after Yellowstone (1872) and Mackinac Island (1875))), and one of the largest urban parks in the United States: Rock Creek Park (the heavily forested park following the Rock Creek valley from the Maryland border in the north through the Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan neighbourhoods to the Potomac River in the south) is the 'Central Park' of Washington DC — the primary urban green space for the city's residents.