Alt Text

Map of Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. Six types of environments are outlined, shaded in different green tones, and labeled to each side of Rock Creek, which runs north-south.

Extended Description

Text in all caps to the right of the map reads, “Diagram Showing Primary Divisions of Landscape and Administration, Report of Olmsted Brothers, Submitted December 1918.”

The tall, narrow map takes up the left half of the graphic. Rock Creek curves southeast from the top left corner before turning south and undulating down the height of the map. Military Road cuts across the creek in the middle of the map and, to the south, Tilden Street and Park Road also cross the creek. Connecticut Avenue cuts diagonally across the lower left corner of the map, and the park area is hemmed by 16th Street to the east.

The northernmost type of landscape is meadow park. Wild woodland and open hillside fill the rest of the area between this and Military Road. South of Military Road are woodland for intensive use to the west of Rock Creek and plateau recreation ground to between the creek and 16th Street.

Valley sections line the creek from near Park Road to end in the northern wild woodland area.

Legend

A scale to the right measures 0.5 kilometers and 0.5 miles.

The legend reads as follows:

Dark green for A, Valley section,

Eucalyptus green for B, Plateau recreation ground,

Grass green for C, Woodland for intensive use,

Olive green for D, Open hillside

Frosty green for E, Wild woodland, and

Pale green for F, Meadow park.