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Katmai National Park and Preserve
Katmai National Park and Preserve, established in 1918, is a national park in southwest Alaska protecting the 1912 Novarupta eruption site and the brown bears of Brooks Camp.
Katy Trail State Park
Katy Trail State Park, the Katy Trail, is Missouri's 240-mile crushed-limestone rail-trail on the former MKT Railroad between Clinton and Machens, the longest developed rail-trail in the United States, with 26 trailheads and four restored depots.
Kazan Zoobotanical Garden
Казанский зооботанический сад (Kazan Zoobotanical Garden), Kazan, Russia: botanical garden founded 1806 by Karl Fuchs at Kazan University, merged with the city zoo in 1931; oldest in Russia, EAZA member, two territories.
Kennecott, Alaska
Kennecott, Alaska (also Kennicott): abandoned copper-mining company town in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park; mined 1901-1938, produced 591,535 short tons of copper, now a National Historic Landmark tourist site.
Kensington Gardens
Kensington Gardens, a Grade I registered Royal Park of about 112 ha west of Hyde Park, London, created in 1689 for Kensington Palace and reshaped by Charles Bridgeman, home to the Serpentine, Albert Memorial, Peter Pan statue, and Diana Memorial Playground.
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), formerly Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a 2,873 ha man-made wetland in Rajasthan, India; a Ramsar site (1981), national park (1982), and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) hosting about 375 bird species on the Central Asian flyway.
Kettle Falls Hotel
Kettle Falls Hotel, the only lodging in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, built 1910-1913 by Ed Rose, reputedly financed by Nellie Bly, sold in 1918 for $1,000 and four barrels of whiskey, NPS-owned since 1978.
Keukenhof
Keukenhof, the spring flower exhibition in Lisse, Netherlands, on the 32-hectare Zocher park of Keukenhof Estate; opened 1950, plants 7 million bulbs, draws 1.4 million visitors in eight weeks each spring.
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) is a UNESCO World Heritage botanic garden in southwest London, founded in 1759, holding over 50,000 living plants, a seven-million-specimen Herbarium, and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่)
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่) is Thailand's first national park, established in 1962, covering 2,166 km² across four provinces about 200 km from Bangkok and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Kilimanjaro National Park
Kilimanjaro National Park (TANAPA/KINAPA) in northeastern Tanzania protects Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m with Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira cones; a 1973 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, known for its glaciers and climbing routes.
Kimen botanical garden
Kimen Botanical Garden (金門植物園), Kinmen Botanical Garden, is a 26-hectare garden at Taiwu Mountain, Jinhu, Kinmen, converted from the 1955 Taiwu military nursery, with 564 plant species and over 80 reused bunkers.
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu) is a national park in Sabah, Malaysia, on northern Borneo, dominated by Mount Kinabalu, the island's highest peak, and established in 1964.
Kinchega National Park
Kinchega National Park, a 44,182-hectare NSW park on the Darling River near Menindee, established 1967 from Kinchega Station, with the historic 1875 Kinchega Woolshed, Paakantji heritage, and Menindee Lakes wetlands.
Kings Canyon National Park
Kings Canyon National Park, California, established March 4, 1940, absorbed General Grant National Park (1890) as Grant Grove; managed with Sequoia NP, 1,353 sq mi combined, 97% wilderness, glacial Kings Canyon and giant sequoias.
Kings Park, Western Australia
Kings Park (Kaarta Koomba), Perth, Western Australia: 400-hectare inner-city park and Western Australian Botanic Garden on Mount Eliza, larger than Central Park, 5.41 million visitors (2023-24), $1.7 billion 30-year value.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is a garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, founded in 1913 to conserve South Africa's indigenous flora.
KOBE Animal Kingdom
KOBE Animal Kingdom (神戸どうぶつ王国) is an all-weather animal and botanical park on Port Island, Kobe, opened July 2014 on the former Kobe Flower and Bird Garden site, with a 15,000 m² glasshouse, 130 animal species, and hands-on feeding and bird shows.
Kobuk Valley National Park
Kobuk Valley National Park is a roadless 1.75-million-acre park in northwestern Alaska, established 1980 under ANILCA, known for the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, the largest active Arctic dunes, and 250,000 migrating Western Arctic caribou.
Kodomonokuni
Kodomonokuni (こどもの国, Children's Land) is a 100-hectare children's park in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, opened May 5, 1965 to commemorate the 1959 Akihito-Michiko wedding, on a former army ammunition depot site.
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo's botanical research garden in Bunkyo, Tokyo; Japan's oldest, founded as a 1684 shogunal medicinal herb garden, holding Herbarium TI specimens and Ogasawara rare-plant conservation projects.
Koishikawa Kōrakuen
Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a strolling pond garden in Bunkyō, Tokyo, begun in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa and completed around 1669 under his son Mitsukuni.
Kowloon Walled City Park (九龙寨城公园)
Kowloon Walled City Park (九龍寨城公園), a 31,000 sq m Jiangnan-style garden in Kowloon City, Hong Kong, opened 22 December 1995 on the demolished Walled City site, preserving the declared-monument Yamen and South Gate relics.
Krka National Park
Krka National Park (Nacionalni park "Krka") is a 109 km² Croatian national park in Šibenik-Knin County, proclaimed in 1985, protecting seven tufa waterfalls on the Krka River, including Skradinski buk, Europe's longest tufa barrier.
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park, South Africa's first national park (proclaimed 31 May 1926 from the 1898 Sabie Game Reserve), covers about 1.9 million hectares in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, holds 147 mammal and 507 bird species, and draws 1-2 million visitors yearly.
Kuala Lumpur Bird Park
Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (Taman Burung Kuala Lumpur), opened 15 November 1991, is a 20.9-acre free-flight walk-in aviary in Perdana Botanical Gardens, Kuala Lumpur, holding about 3,000 birds of over 200 species across four zones, Malaysia's largest bird park.
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park (Kugluk, Inuinnaqtun for white water) is a Nunavut park 13 km south of Kugluktuk on the Coppermine River, protecting Bloody Falls, a 1978 national historic site with 3,000-plus years of Pre-Dorset, Thule, and Inuit archaeology.
Kumpula Botanic Garden
Kumpula Botanic Garden (Kumpulan kasvitieteellinen puutarha) is a six-hectare Luomus garden in Helsinki on Kumpula Manor grounds, founded 1987, opened 2009, with cultivated-plant and geobotanical collections; closed until spring 2027.
Kunming Botanical Garden
Kunming Botanical Garden (昆明植物园), founded 1938 under the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, conserves Southwest Chinese plants ex situ, holding 602 national key protected species, Fuligong greenhouses, and a Lijiang alpine campus.
Kunming Zoo
Kunming Zoo (昆明动物园), also called Yuantong Mountain Zoo, is a public urban zoo in Kunming, Yunnan, China, founded in 1953 on Yuantong Mountain; it holds over 200 species, five Yunnan signature animal populations, Ming wall remnants, and the 2024 monkey-cat controversy.