Editing Rock Creek Park (section)

== Administration ==
As originally authorized by Congress, the park was governed by the Rock Creek Park Commission, comprising the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Chief of Engineers of the Army]], the engineer commissioner of the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]], and three presidential appointees. In 1933, the park, along with other National Capital Parks, was transferred to the jurisdiction of the National Park Service.<ref name="adminhist4">NPS (2004). [http://www.nps.gov/rocr/learn/historyculture/adhi4.htm "Under the Park Service: The Changing of the Guard."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314155604/http://www.nps.gov/rocr/learn/historyculture/adhi4.htm |date=March 14, 2016 }} ''Rock Creek Park: An Administrative History.''</ref> The park is patrolled by the [[United States Park Police]].

''Rock Creek Park'' is also an administrative unit of the [[National Park Service]] responsible for administration of 99 properties in the District of Columbia north and west of the [[National Mall and Memorial Parks]]. The properties include various parks, parkways, buildings, circles, triangles, memorials, and statues and include:<ref name=LRIP/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockcreekconservancy.org/images/RCC_GreenRibbon_0915_Web.pdf|title=Revitalizing Rock Creek Park:The Next 125 Years|last=Mullin|first=Beth|publisher=Rock Creek Conservancy|date=2015|access-date=2017-11-29|archive-date=May 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531151451/http://www.rockcreekconservancy.org/images/RCC_GreenRibbon_0915_Web.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Reservation List: The Parks of the National Park System, Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.nps.gov/features/foia/Reservation-List-2011.pdf|website=www.nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service; Land Resources Program Center; National Capital Region|access-date=2017-11-25|ref=Reservation List 2011|archive-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222032738/https://www.nps.gov/features/foia/Reservation-List-2011.pdf|url-status=live}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
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=== Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway ===
=== Tributary park extensions ===
* Broad Branch
* East Beach Drive
* [[Klingle Road|Klingle Valley Parkway]]
* Melvin C. Hazen Park – South of Tilden Street on either side of [[Connecticut Avenue]], NW
* Normanstone Parkway – Along Normanstone Drive across [[Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Massachusetts Avenue]], NW from the US Naval Observatory
* North Portal
* Pinehurst Parkway
* [[Piney Branch|Piney Branch Parkway]]
* [[Forest Hills (Washington, D.C.)#Points of interest|Soapstone Valley Park]]

=== Other parks ===
* [[Barnard Hill Park]]
* [[Bryce Park]] – Massachusetts Avenue between [[Wisconsin Avenue]] and Garfield Street, NW
* [[Dumbarton Oaks Park]]
* [[Francis Scott Key Memorial]]
* [[Georgetown Waterfront Park]]
* [[Glover-Archbold Park]]
* [[Little Forest Park|Little Forest]] – Formerly Francis G. Newlands Park
* [[Meridian Hill Park]]
* [[Montrose Park]]
* Wesley Heights Park – Along Fulton and Edmunds Streets, NW, connecting Palisades Park to Glover-Archbold Park
* Whitehaven Park – South of W Street, NW connecting Glover-Archbold Park to Dumbarton Oaks Park
* Woodley Park (Playground) – Courtland and Devonshire Places, NW
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=== Traffic circles ===
* [[Chevy Chase Circle]]
* [[Grant Circle]]
* [[Sherman Circle]]
* [[Tenley Circle]]
* [[Ward Circle]]
* Westmoreland Circle

=== Other areas ===
* [[Battleground National Cemetery]]
* [[Civil War Defenses of Washington|Fort Circle Parks]] – from Palisades Park to Fort Lincoln
** [[Battery Kemble Park]]
** [[Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.)#Fort Bayard Park|Fort Bayard Park]]
** [[Fort Bunker Hill|Fort Bunker Hill Park]]
** [[Fort DeRussy (Washington, D.C.)|Fort DeRussy]]
** [[Fort Reno Park]]
** [[Civil War Defenses of Washington#List of Historic Forts|Fort Slocum Park]]
** [[Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)|Fort Stevens Park]]
** [[Fort Totten Park]]
* [[Old Stone House (Washington, D.C.)|Old Stone House]]

=== Other small areas ===
* [[Francis Asbury (Lukeman)|Francis Asbury statue]]
* [[Guglielmo Marconi (Piccirilli)|Guglielmo Marconi memorial]]
* [[James Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Statue|James Cardinal Gibbons memorial]]
* [[Major General George B. McClellan| Major General George B. McClellan statue]]
* [[Louis C. Rabaut#Memorials|Rabaut Park]]
* [[Peter Muhlenberg Memorial]]
* [[Robert Emmet#Statues of Robert Emmet|Robert Emmet statue]]
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