Rock Creek Forest
Rock Creek Forest is a mostly residential neighborhood in Silver Spring / Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Rock Creek Forest is a mostly residential neighborhood in Silver Spring / Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is bordered by Chevy Chase to the west, Silver Spring to the east, the border with Washington, D.C., to the south. Maryland Route 410 runs through the neighborhood. The historically African-American neighborhood of Lyttonsville is to the north, while Rock Creek Park and the neighborhoods of North Portal Estates / Colonial Village / Shepherd Park are to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Rock Creek Forest
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01National Center for Biotechnology Information
Database arm of the US National Library of Medicine
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 02United States National Library of Medicine
Medical library operated by the U.S. federal government
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 03
- 04National Museum of Health and Medicine
Museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
2 km · Wikipedia - 05Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Health science university of the United States federal government
3 km · Wikipedia - 06
- 07St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
Roman Catholic church in Forest Glenn/Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
3.6 km · Wikipedia - 08
- 09Chevy Chase Circle
Traffic circle and park on the Washington, D.C. – Maryland border
3.3 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Rock Creek Forest
- Airports
- Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 16 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 35 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 39 km
- Stations
- Medical Center, 3.8 km · Takoma, 3.6 km · Silver Spring Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, 2.4 km · Dale Drive station, 3.4 km
- Richmond → Rock Creek Forest164 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · $15–21
- Philadelphia → Rock Creek Forest194 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · $17–24
- Norfolk → Rock Creek Forest248 km · quickest by road, 5h 10m · $27–37
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rock Creek Forest
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rock Creek Forest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextHarpers Ferry — West of Frederick on US-340, famous for Civil War history and natural beauty.
From Wikivoyage: Capital Region (Maryland), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Rock Creek Forest
Rock Creek Forest is 11 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Forest Glen Parkneighborhood in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States2.3 km
- Coolidge Senior High Schoolpublic high school in Washington, District of Columbia, United States4 km
- Woodside Parkneighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, United States2.7 km
- Barnaby Woodsneighborhood in upper Northwest Washington, D.C.1.9 km
- Colonial Villageneighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States1.1 km