Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Virginia about 13 km (8 mi) west of Washington, D.C., is the first and only national park devoted to the performing arts. Beneath its stages lies a slice of the Piedmont's long geologic history.
The park
| Authorized | October 15, 1966, as Wolf Trap Farm Park |
| Renamed | August 21, 2002 |
| Size | about 52 hectares (130 acres) |
| Land given by | Catherine Filene Shouse, researcher and philanthropist, who wanted to bring a wide range of performing arts to the people of the National Capital area |
Its three venues:
- the Filene Center, a leading open-air arts pavilion hosting internationally known performers against the rolling hills and woods along Wolf Trap Creek;
- the Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods, an outdoor amphitheater introducing children to the performing arts;
- the Meadow Pavilion, for smaller shows.
The bedrock
| Rock | Age | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Mather Gorge Formation — metagraywacke and schist, metamorphosed sediments | Neoproterozoic–Cambrian | underlies most of the park; exposed along Wolf Trap Creek |
| Granite — light-gray, massive, with muscovite and biotite | Ordovician | intruded into the Mather Gorge rocks in the park's southeast |
| Vein quartz | Paleozoic | many bodies cutting the metasediments; large quartz blocks mapped near the creek |
| Alluvium and colluvium | Quaternary — young | along the creek's broad valley, filling the hollows in the meadows |
Wolf Trap belongs to the Piedmont Physiographic Province, sharing its history and characteristic formations with a region far larger than the park.
Geologic map of Wolf Trap. Image from the National Park Service
Maps and reports
The NPS Geologic Resources Inventory, which has produced geologic maps and reports for more than 270 parks, has mapped Wolf Trap, and a Soil Resources Inventory has been completed. Both are on the NPS DataStore.
A native meadow restoration site at Wolf Trap. Image from the National Park Service
Sources
Based on "NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Virginia," National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
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