I’d heard rumors about steelhead gutting it out, and making it way upstream in Rock Creek. I’d hiked it for years and seen eagles nesting in its big trees, and scores of ducks in the lakes and ponds that overflowed from its high waters.
Although Rock Creek has been channelized and culverted, it runs twenty miles, drains a big area and carries lots of water. In some places its suckles hundreds of acres of adjoining wetlands that harbor unusual creatures for the suburbs, including elk. Rock Creek often floods. Here’s pictures from 2014.
A few months ago, I joined the local country club which is a quarter mile from my house. For the first time, I could walk the half mile of Rock Creek that ran through the private golf course. I’d walked public trails along the creek both north and south of the Course, but never on the Course itself. Here are pictures from today’s walk along the Creek through the Course.
The huge trees in the distance are in peoples’ yards, and shade the Creek. The Creek is coming from a linear park through a neighborhood. But when the creek flows onto the golf course, it abruptly loses its tree shade.
I do like the gnarly brush on the creeksides; at some courses those banks are smoothed flat and mowed.
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