Rock Creek Caverns

 is a large disconnected metro tunnel/cavern that is inhabited by Mirelurks, Mirelurk Hunters, or Mirelurk Kings depending on the character's level. The caverns consist of a single interior section.

Exterior
The entrance to Rock Creek Caverns is accessed through a sewer grate at the bottom of a crater that has exposed the sewer system, just to the west of the National Guard Depot. When coming from the direction of the National Guard Depot, there is a guaranteed encounter with two raiders and two Super Mutants most likely wielding big guns.

Rock Creek Caverns
This section is the only section in, but is a large section incorporating numerous tunnels and offshoots as well as brief areas of the metro system. 15 Mirelurks are scattered around the section. At point D on the local map image seen above, there is a bed that can be slept in along with a safe. At Point F there is a mercenary and wastelander corpse along with an "easy" safe, a powerfist and a few ammo boxes. Point G has a dead skeletal family and a few stimpaks along with some various loot. Point E just has some dead Brahmin and dead ants along with some egg clutches.

Notable loot

 * A Nuka-Cola Quantum can be found in a wooden crate at B on the local map image. To get to it, walk up the fallen stalactite at A, which rests at an angle against a wall in the first and largest chamber of Rock Creek Caverns. At its tip, jump up to where some mushrooms are located. Hugging the wall, walk on the skinny ledge around to B.
 * Point F has two laser rifles on the ground, energy cells and microfusion cells in amo boxes, and a scoped .44 magnum in a easy-level pickable safe

Appearances
appears in Fallout 3.

Trivia

 * Rock Creek Caverns got the name "Rock Creek" from the Rock Creek Pkwy in Washington DC. Rock Creek Pkwy is located near the Washington Monument in Washington DC.
 * Behind the building directly to the south of the entrance to Rock Creek Caverns the is a scripted encounter between two Raiders, both carrying missle launchers and two leveled Super Mutants carrying either Mini Guns, at lower levels, or two Gatling Lasers at higher levels. You can either help end the fight early or wait untill the they finish each other off and kill off the signifcantly weakened winner (usually the Super Mutants). This is a easy source for heavy weapons though all are in poor condition.