1. Cabin John Regional Park
City: Rockville, MD
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (301) 299-0024
Address: 7400 Tuckerman Lane
Description: This popular M-NCPPC park features numerous recreational activities, including indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a year-round ice-skating rink (301-365-2246), handball and volleyball courts, playing fields, and trails for bikers and hikers. There’s also limited primitive camping space. (See our Kidstuff chapter for more on the park’s child-pleasing attractions.)
2. Rock Creek Regional Park
City: Rockville, MD
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (301) 948-5053
Address: 6700 Needwood Road
Description: Hike through the woods, picnic, visit a nature center, visit an archery range, or play golf on an 18-hole course. The park’s Lake Needwood offers fishing, tourboat rides, and rental pedal boats, canoes, and rowboats. The site also has a snack bar.
3. City Of Rockville Recreation And Parks Department
City: Rockville, MD
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (240) 314-8620
Address: 111 Maryland Avenue
Description: This department oversees more than 50 parks, including a new skate park, and several community centers in Montgomery County’s large city of Rockville.
4. Jewish Community Center Of Greater Washington
City: Rockville, MD
Category: Parks & Recreation
Telephone: (301) 881-0100
Address: 6125 Montrose Road
Description: The JCC’s facilities include a sports and fitness center with indoor and outdoor pools, exercise equipment, a steam room, and courts for handball, racquetball, squash, and basketball. Men’s and women’s health clubs are available for additional membership fees. JCC programs include preschool and kindergarten, summer camps and after-school activities, classes and special events for all ages, a library, and a cultural arts series.