Tag: "National Parks"
Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park is located in the U.S. state of Virginia. Almost 40% of the land area of 79,579 acres has been designated as wilderness and is protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest peak here is the Hawksbill Mountain at 4,051 feet, part of Blue Ridge Mountains. Some historians say that the name Shenandoah [...]
Bryant Park , New York City
Bryant Park , located in New York City , is a 9.603 acre (39,000 m²) large green oasis and one of the most pleasant parks in Manhattan. Bryant Park is managed by a private not-for-profit corporation, the Bryant Park Corporation which is responsible for a multitude of park activities and events, as well as ongoing [...]
Lincoln Park , Chicago’s largest public park
Lincoln Park is Chicago’s largest public park spanning 488,86 ha (1.8875 mi²) along the Chicago, Illinois lakefront and facing Lake Michigan. The Lincoln Park Zoo is included in the park that also features beaches, nature reserves, and harbors. History Lincoln Park wasn’t always so thriving and alive as today. In 1824, Lincoln Park was merely swamp and [...]
Fairmount Park , Philadelphia
Fairmount Park , located on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia , is one of the world’s largest municipal parks consisting of 63 parks, with 9,200 acres (3,700 ha) and containing several million trees and America’s oldest zoo. Fairmount Park The largest of these 63 Fairmount parks are : East and West Parks, Franklin D. [...]
Belle Isle , the largest island park
Belle Isle , located only a couple of miles away from downtown Detroit is the largest island park in the US covering 982-acre (1.534 sq mi). It’s larger than Central Park in NYC and the third largest island in the Detroit River after Grosse Ile and Fighting Island . Belle Isle features Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory (1904), [...]
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain located in Georgia , is a quartz monzonite dome with an elevation of 1,686 feet (513 m) above sea level and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain is well-known for its geology and for an enormous bas-relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief in the world. The carving [...]
Cascades – Cascade Range
The Cascades, also called Cascade Range is a major mountain range in North America ranging from British Columbia through Washington , Oregon to Northern California. Cascade Range includes non-volcanic mountains like North Cascades but also well known volcanoes called High Cascades. The small part of the range in British Columbia is called the Canadian Cascades [...]
Boston Common , world’s first public urban park
Boston Common or The Common located in Boston, Massachusetts is world’s first public urban park . The Boston Common comprises 50 acres (20 ha) of land and it is part of the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways . A visitors’ center for all of Boston is located on the Tremont Street side of the park. [...]
Public Garden , Boston
The Public Garden or Boston Public Garden located in the center of Boston, Massachusetts, is a large park next to the Boston Common. Flora The Public Garden is planted with a wide assortment of native and introduced trees such as the weeping willows around the shore of the lagoon and the European and American elms [...]
Seattle Center
Seattle Center is a park , arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) site was used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition . First built for the 1962 World’s Fair, the Seattle Center is located just north of downtown Seattle, and offers everyone a beautiful relaxed environment for people to [...]
