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Fitzgerald River National Park

Fitzgerald River National Park: large national park on Western Australia's south coast, 420 km southeast of Perth, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978) and National Heritage place (2016) with about 1,748 plant species including 75 endemics.

Five Islands, Nova Scotia

Five Islands, Nova Scotia: community and provincial park on the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, 24 km east of Parrsboro, with 90 m sea cliffs, the world's highest tides, Triassic-Jurassic geology, and about 92 campsites.

Flandrau State Park

Flandrau State Park is a Minnesota state park on the Cottonwood River adjacent to New Ulm, established in 1936, known for its chlorinated sand-bottom swim pond and campgrounds.

Flinders Chase National Park

Flinders Chase National Park, a wilderness park at the west end of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, reserved in 1919; home to Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch, long-nosed fur seals, and 96% burnt in the 2019–20 bushfires.

Flinders Ranges

The Flinders Ranges is a mountain range in South Australia, north of Adelaide, whose exposed rocks record 350 million years of Earth history, including the first large complex animal life.

Florencia Beach

Florencia Beach, also called Florencia Bay or Wreck Beach, is a 5 km surf beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada, with A-frame beach-break waves, northeast offshore winds, cold water, and access via the Willowbrae and Nuu-chah-nulth trails.

Flower Land Pattaya

Flower Land Pattaya (ฟลาวเวอร์แลนด์ พัทยา) is a 40-acre flower park near Mabprachan Lake, east of Pattaya, Thailand, opened December 2018, with Himmapan, Eden, and Inthanon domes and a 360-degree saltwater aquarium; currently listed as temporarily closed.

Flower Park

Flower Park, or Riverfront Flower Park, is a 6.19-hectare themed flower garden on the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, completed January 2017 by SRFDCL; the name also refers to parks in Shahapur, Karnataka, and Singur, West Bengal.

Flower Theatre

Flower Theatre (Bloementheater, Théâtre des fleurs) is a display garden at Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium, a peony-centred garden opened from 2007 with 738 taxa; also the name of cinemas in Ottawa and Silver Spring, Maryland.

Flowers Garden

Flowers Garden (Bagh-e Golha, باغ گلها) is a 67,000 m² municipal flower garden in Isfahan, Iran, at Bozorgmehr Square by the Zayandeh River, with about 400 plant species, a Persian carpet flower design, and a tropical greenhouse dome.

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is an 898-acre municipal park in Queens, New York City, built on an ash dump and hosting the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, the UN General Assembly (1946–1950), the Unisphere, Queens Museum, US Open tennis center, and Citi Field.

Fontainebleau State Park

Fontainebleau State Park is a 2,800-acre Louisiana state park in Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, known for its sandy beach and 1829 sugar mill ruins.

Forest Park (St. Louis)

Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri: a roughly 1,300-acre urban park opened June 24, 1876, larger than Central Park, site of the 1904 World's Fair, home to the Zoo, Art Museum, Muny, and the Glade/Steinberg renovation.

Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor

Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor (FRIM FPS), at Kepong 16 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur, is a 589-ha man-made tropical rainforest planted from the 1920s on tin-mining land; inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape (criterion iv) on 11 July 2025, Malaysia's sixth site.

Former botanical garden

Former botanical garden (Bývalá botanická záhrada), Trnava, Slovakia: a 1967 Comenius University teaching garden, declassified after 1995, revitalized by MTF STU since 2006 and slated for public opening in 2025.

Former national monuments of the United States

Former national monuments of the United States are areas whose national monument status ended by act of Congress, transfer, or redesignation, most often into national parks.

Fort Adams State Park

Fort Adams State Park, Newport, Rhode Island, surrounds historic Fort Adams (1824–1857), the largest U.S. coastal fortification, transferred to the state in 1965; home of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals and Sail Newport.

Fort Bridger

Fort Bridger, Wyoming trading post founded 1843 by Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez on Blacks Fork; emigrant resupply point on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails, later a Mormon way station and U.S. Army post until 1890, now a state historic site.

Fort Jefferson (Florida)

Fort Jefferson is the largest all-masonry 19th-century U.S. coastal fort, an unfinished hexagonal Third System fortress on Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70 miles west of Key West, used as a Civil War Union prison that held Dr. Samuel Mudd.

Fort Monroe National Monument

Fort Monroe National Monument, known as Freedom's Fortress, is a National Park Service unit in Hampton, Virginia, proclaimed in 2011 to preserve the moated fort where the 1861 Contraband Decision freed thousands of enslaved people.

Fort Ross, California

Fort Ross, also known as Krepost Ross, is a former Russian-American Company settlement on the Northern California coast, founded in 1812 and now a state historic park.

Fort Snelling State Park

Fort Snelling State Park: Minnesota state park at the Mississippi-Minnesota river confluence, opened 1962, over 400,000 annual visitors, 18 miles hiking trails, no camping, managed by Minnesota DNR.

Fort Stevens (Oregon)

Fort Stevens was a US Army coastal defense fort at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, serving from the Civil War to World War II.

Fort Union National Monument

Fort Union National Monument, in Mora County, New Mexico, preserves three successive army forts (1851-1891) guarding the Santa Fe Trail, including the West's sole surviving earthen star fort and the largest visible Santa Fe Trail wagon ruts.

Fort Wetherill

Fort Wetherill is a former U.S. coastal defense fort on Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Rhode Island, now a 61.5-acre state park on granite cliffs overlooking Narragansett Bay, popular for scuba diving and harbor views.

Fort Yellowstone

Fort Yellowstone, at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, was the US Army post that headquartered the park's military administration from 1886 to 1918; it is now a National Historic Landmark District and park headquarters.

Fortress of Louisbourg

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site: Parks Canada reconstruction in Nova Scotia of a French fortified town founded 1713, captured by Britain in 1745 and 1758, demolished, and partly rebuilt from 1961 as North America's largest historical reconstruction.

Fossil Cycad National Monument

Fossil Cycad National Monument, abolished 1957, was a 320-acre NPS unit near Hot Springs, South Dakota, protecting Cretaceous cycadeoid (Bennettitales) fossils; over-collecting left it fossil-free.

Fragrances and Colours Garden

Fragrances and Colours Garden (Geuren- en kleurentuin, Jardin des senteurs et des couleurs) is a fenced thematic garden at Plantentuin Meise, Belgium, opened 2020, growing plants used for perfumes and dyes, with a katsura scent tunnel smelling of fresh biscuits.

Franconia Notch State Park

Franconia Notch State Park is a New Hampshire state park in the White Mountains along I-93, between the Kinsman and Franconia ranges, home of the Old Man of the Mountain (collapsed 2003), Flume Gorge, Echo Lake, Cannon Mountain, and Lafayette Place Campground.