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| Klingle Valley Park is located in
Cleveland Park, on an uninhabited half-mile stretch in Rock Creek Park between Porter St. N.W. and Cortland Place,
N.W Most people only see it from the bridge on
Connecticut Ave near the Kennedy Warren. It is a
richly wooded stream valley that leads
into Rock Creek Park just north of the zoo. The vast majority of Klingle Valley is owned publicly through the National Park Service and managed by Rock Creek Park. There is a very narrow right of way that is controlled by the District. This right of way is in most places only a few feet from the old road's curb. See a map of the Right-of-way here. The rest of the land that fronts the closed portion of the road is privately owned and is currently undeveloped greenspace, though it is much likelier to be developed if the road were rebuilt. |
 The National Park Service includes Klingle Valley Park on its map of Rock Creek National Park (327k) rockcreeknp.pdf |
Although the old roadway has not been made into a park by the City, it has, in effect been enjoyed as a park for the last 10 years.
Although much has been made of the long history of Klingle as a road by the pro-road folks, Klingle has been a stream valley for thousands of years, cut by water coursing its way to the Potomac. The threat to the valley is the same thing that tore up the road: stormwater. Because the valley's 300 acre watershed is now covered with mostly impervious surfaces, water that once slowly etched the valley is causing massive erosion and siltation in Rock Creek. See more about this here: Klingle's Environment
