Montogomery County required the developer JBG to build a section of trail from the NIH/NAID development they built, but now the County doesn't have the money to finish it, so it just sort of dead-ends on the other side of Rock Creek. The trail is the Twinbrook Connector Trail and it is intended to connect the Twinbrook Metro Station to the Rock Creek Trail (RCT) next to Veirs Mill Road.
The developer portion of the trail, about 3000 feet of trail and a bridge across Rock Creek, was completed in 2017 but it ends on the far side of the creek about 1200 feet from the RCT. Early this year, the County built a muddy natural surface trail from the bridge to the RCT, which allowed it to "open" but not in the form originally planned. Nor is it even in the same place. It was originally to run along the south side of Veirs Mill Road and now meanders through the woods, which is where it appears it will stay, despite what is shown in the Veirs Mill Corridor Master Plan.
Because the county part of the trail is so inhospitable, they considered putting a temporary trail on the edge of the southeast-bound Veirs Mill shoulder, but in October they decided that was unsafe, and too expensive.
Now the plan is to design a paved trail connection over the Parkland area (seen below) and finish the design and environmental permitting by Summer 2019.
This is all covered at the incredibly thorough Luke Fischer page, which is where both images are from as well.
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