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Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1890-1960/61), American architect of National Park Service rustic lodges: Ahwahnee Hotel, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Timberline, Sun Valley, and Jackson Lake lodges, plus federal buildings.
Gillette Castle State Park
Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam, Connecticut, preserves the 24-room fieldstone home (1914–1919) of actor William Gillette, famous as Sherlock Holmes, with trails on his narrow-gauge railroad bed, river camping, and seasonal castle tours.
Gir National Park
Gir National Park in Gujarat, India, core of the Gir sanctuary complex (about 1,883 sq km), protects the world's only wild Asiatic lions, which numbered 891 in the 2025 census, up from 674 in 2020.
Giraffe Centre
Giraffe Centre (AFEW Giraffe Centre, Lang'ata, Nairobi) is a Kenyan non-profit conservation and education centre founded in 1979 by Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville to save the Rothschild's (Nubian) giraffe, breeding and releasing giraffes and teaching over 50,000 schoolchildren yearly.
Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glacier National Park, established May 11, 1910 in northwestern Montana, is a 1,583-square-mile U.S. national park of glaciers, lakes, and Going-to-the-Sun Road, joined with Canada's Waterton Lakes as the first international peace park.
Glaciers of Mount Rainier
The glaciers of Mount Rainier are 28 named glaciers covering the volcano in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, including the Emmons Glacier, the largest in the contiguous United States.
Goat Island (New York)
Goat Island, New York: island in the Niagara River between the American and Horseshoe Falls, part of Niagara Falls State Park, the first US state park, designed by Olmsted and Vaux.
Goderdzi Alpine Botanical Garden
Goderdzi Alpine Botanical Garden (Goderdzis Alpuri Baghi), an alpine botanical garden of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Khulo Municipality, Adjara, Georgia, at 1,859-1,960 m near Goderdzi Pass; opened 2020, conserving Caucasian high-mountain flora with a rock garden and Jara beekeeping.
Goethe Garten
Goethe Garten: Goethe's house garden behind his Weimar residence at Frauenplan and his Gartenhaus garden in the Park on the Ilm; kitchen garden, pavilions, UNESCO site, restoration to 2030.
Going-to-the-Sun Road
Going-to-the-Sun Road is the 50-mile historic highway crossing Glacier National Park, Montana, over Logan Pass (6,646 ft) on the Continental Divide. Completed 1932, dedicated 1933; National Historic Landmark and National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark; no vehicle reservations required in 2026.
Golden City Park
Golden City Park (金城公园, Jincheng Park), also called Xigu Park, is a free public park in Xigu District, Lanzhou, founded 1984, renovated 2014, with Phase II opened 2020, themed on General Li Xi's ancient Jincheng.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is a 1,017-acre urban park in western San Francisco, built from 1870 on sand dunes by William Hammond Hall and John McLaren, with gardens, museums, and 25 million annual visits.
Good Maharaja Square
Good Maharaja Square (Skwer Dobrego Maharadży, Opacz Park) is a garden square in Ochota, Warsaw, named after Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji of Nawanagar, who sheltered Polish refugee children at Balachadi, 1942–1946.
Gorky Park (Moscow)
Gorky Park (Центральный парк культуры и отдыха имени Горького) is Moscow's central park, opened 12 August 1928 on the 1923 agricultural exhibition site, named for Maxim Gorky in 1932, and reconstructed from 2011.
Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation
Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation (Парк культури та відпочинку ім. Горького): name shared by several Soviet-era municipal parks, chiefly Kharkiv's Central Park (founded 1893–95, renamed 2023) and Moscow's Gorky Park (opened 1928, 212 ha).
Gothenburg Botanical Garden
Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Göteborgs botaniska trädgården, Botaniska), a 175-hectare botanical garden in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 1919–1923, led by Carl Skottsberg; 20,000 species, Michelin-listed rock garden, Sweden's largest orchid collection.
Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden
Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden is a medicinal plant garden at Poojappura in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, serving the Government Ayurveda College, one of Kerala's oldest Ayurveda teaching institutions.
Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park is a two-acre private park in Manhattan, founded by Samuel B. Ruggles and conveyed to trustees on December 17, 1831, accessible by key to residents of surrounding buildings and governed by the Trustees of Gramercy Park.
Grampians National Park
Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) is a heritage-listed park in western Victoria, Australia, famed for Aboriginal rock art, Mount William, and the 164 km Grampians Peaks Trail; heavily affected by 2024-25 bushfires.
Grand Canyon Depot
Grand Canyon Depot, or Grand Canyon Railroad Station, is a 1909-1910 log depot at Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, designed by Francis W. Wilson for the Santa Fe Railway; a National Historic Landmark terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams.
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park: Arizona national park (est. 1919) protecting 278 miles of the Colorado River and a mile-deep canyon, homeland of 11 tribes, with about five million annual visitors.
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, in Mercer and Auglaize counties, western Ohio, centers on Ohio's largest inland lake, built 1837–1845 as a feeder reservoir for the Miami and Erie Canal and dedicated as a state park in 1949.
Grand Teton
Grand Teton, highest peak of Wyoming's Teton Range at 13,770 ft in Grand Teton National Park; also called Les Trois Tetons. Known for 2.7-billion-year-old gneiss, Teton fault uplift, 1898 first ascent, and classic climbing routes.
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park, in northwestern Wyoming, protects the Teton Range, Jackson Hole, and the Snake River. Created 1929, expanded 1950; 310,044 acres; Grand Teton peak 13,770 feet; over 2 million annual visitors.
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is a Brazilian Cerrado national park created in 1989 and expanded in 2004 to about 230,853 hectares in Minas Gerais and Bahia, named for Guimarães Rosa's novel and protecting jaguars, maned wolves, and vereda wetlands.
Grandfather Mountain
Grandfather Mountain is a 5,946-foot Blue Ridge peak in western North Carolina, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with a free state park and a separate private attraction featuring the Mile High Swinging Bridge.
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park near Yarnell, Arizona, dedicated 2016, memorializes 19 Prescott hotshot firefighters killed June 30, 2013 in the Yarnell Hill Fire, with a 7-mile memorial trail to the fatality site.
Grayson Highlands State Park
Grayson Highlands State Park, originally Mount Rogers State Park, is a 4,520-acre Virginia park established in 1965 near Mount Rogers, with wild ponies, grassy balds, Appalachian Trail access, and over 96 campsites.
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin National Park, established in Nevada on October 27, 1986, protects Wheeler Peak (13,063 ft), Nevada's only glacier, ancient bristlecone pines, Lehman Caves, and International Dark Sky Park night skies.
Great Northern Railway Buildings
Great Northern Railway Buildings: a 1987 National Historic Landmark district in Glacier National Park, Montana, comprising Many Glacier Hotel, Sperry and Granite Park Chalets, and the Two Medicine Store, built 1913-1915 in Swiss chalet style.