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Liberty Park
Liberty Park, Salt Lake City's oldest and second-largest urban park, a roughly 100-acre Utah park dedicated 1882, home to Tracy Aviary and the historic Chase Home, Mill, and Well; distinct from parks of the same name in Spokane, Memphis, and Summit County, Ohio.
Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park, a 1,200-acre New Jersey state park in Jersey City opened June 14, 1976, is the state's only ferry gateway to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, site of the CRRNJ Terminal, and subject of decades-long anti-privatization battles.
Lilac Garden
The Lilac Garden (Georgian: იასამნების ბაღი), also known as the Syringarium, is a lilac collection in the National Botanical Garden of Georgia in Tbilisi, established in 1970.
Limbe Botanic Garden
Limbe Botanical Gardens (Victoria Botanic Garden), founded 1892 in Limbe, Cameroon, the first botanic garden in Central and West Africa; 48 ha coastal garden for ex-situ conservation, the 1994 Conservation through Cultivation Programme, herbarium SCA, and the Limbe Wildlife Centre.
Lincoln National Park
Lincoln National Park is a 29,060-hectare coastal park on the southern tip of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula near Port Lincoln, overlooking Boston Bay, with Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area, Sleaford-Wanna dunes, and 1941/1972 reserve history.
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is Chicago's largest park, a 1,188.62-acre lakefront park from Streeterville to Edgewater, former city cemetery turned park in 1865, home to Lincoln Park Zoo, Conservatory, and Chicago History Museum.
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo is a 49-acre zoo in Chicago's Lincoln Park, founded in 1868 and open free of charge every day of the year, with nearly 200 species.
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Lincoln's Inn Fields, formerly Fickett's, Purse, and Cup Fields, is London's largest garden square, a Grade II registered park in Holborn, Camden, laid out formally in 1735 and opened to the public by the LCC in 1894.
Linnés Orangeriträdgård
Linnés Orangeriträdgård, Linnaeus's Orangery Garden at Möckelsnäs, Sweden, is a reconstruction of an 18th-century Linnaeus garden with an orangery, four themed plant quarters, and orange trees up to 200 years old.
List of Alaska state parks
List of Alaska state parks: units of the Alaska State Park System, also called Alaska State Parks, managed by the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation; over 156 units, about 3 million acres, largest system in the US, anchored by Wood-Tikchik State Park.
List of Michigan state parks
The list of Michigan state parks covers the 103 parks and recreation areas run by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources, from Belle Isle to the Porcupine Mountains.
List of proposed national parks of the United States
Proposed national parks of the United States: places nominated for national park designation, evaluated by NPS significance, suitability, feasibility, and management criteria; includes six completed studies awaiting Congress, 143 tracked proposals, and Chiricahua National Park.
Litchfield National Park (Australia)
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory: a ~1,500 km2 park 120 km southwest of Darwin, managed by NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, known for Tabletop Range waterfalls, swimming holes, magnetic termite mounds, the Lost City, and free entry versus Kakadu.
Lituya Bay
Lituya Bay, also known as Baie des Français, is a T-shaped fjord in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, known for its 1958 megatsunami with a 1,720-foot run-up.
LiuDui Hakka Cultural Park
Liudui Hakka Cultural Park (六堆客家文化园区) is a free, 30-hectare national Hakka culture park in Neipu, Pingtung County, Taiwan, opened October 22, 2011, with umbrella-shaped solar buildings, tobacco and rice exhibitions, and children's museums.
Living Plant Museum
Living plant museum: term for botanical gardens, arboreta, and conservatories displaying curated living plant collections; examples include the U.S. Botanic Garden (est. 1820), UCR Botanic Gardens, Nepal's National Botanical Garden, and Chulalongkorn University's Living Plant Museum.
Ljubljana Botanical Garden
The Ljubljana Botanical Garden (Botanični vrt Univerze v Ljubljani) is a botanical garden in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded in 1810 under French rule and holding over 4,500 plant species.
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a 1,550 km² protected area on Gabon's Atlantic coast, created in 2002, where rainforest, lagoons, and ocean beach meet in one landscape.
Lodi Gardens
Lodi Gardens (Lodhi Garden), New Delhi: 90-acre park inaugurated 1936 as Lady Willingdon Park, renamed after 1947; holds Sayyid and Lodi tombs including Muhammad Shah's 1444 tomb and Sikandar Lodi's tomb; redesigned 1968 by Joseph Allen Stein.
Loggerhead Key
Loggerhead Key: largest island of Dry Tortugas National Park, 3 miles from Garden Key, home to the 157-foot Dry Tortugas Lighthouse (1858) and the Carnegie marine laboratory (1904-1939), day use only.
Loki-Schmidt-Garten
Loki-Schmidt-Garten, formerly Neuer Botanischer Garten Klein Flottbek, is the 24-hectare botanical garden of the University of Hamburg, opened 1979, renamed 2012 for botanist Loki Schmidt, with about 500,000 annual visitors.
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens is a public botanical garden in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, created by Pierre S. du Pont, who bought the Peirce farm in 1906 to save its historic trees.
Longzhong Botanical Garden
Longzhong Botanical Garden (隆中植物园), built 2000 in Xiangyang, Hubei, is a 1,500-mu forest ecological garden beside the 5A Gulongzhong scenic area, with 1,100+ plant species, 16 specialty gardens, and combined ticketing with Gulongzhong.
Loro Parque
Loro Parque, zoological park in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, founded 1972 by Wolfgang Kiessling; known for parrot breeding, Loro Parque Fundación conservation work, Orca Ocean orcas including Morgan, and American Humane certification.
Los Alerces National Park
Los Alerces National Park (Parque Nacional Los Alerces), a 259,822-hectare park in Chubut, Argentine Patagonia, created in 1937 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, protects ancient alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) forests with trees over 3,600 years old.
Lums Pond State Park
Lums Pond State Park, in Bear, New Castle County, Delaware, centers on Lums Pond, the state's largest freshwater pond at 200 acres. Created as a millpond in the 1730s and later feeding the C&D Canal's Summit lock, the 1,790-acre park opened in 1966 with camping, trails, boating, and a treetop adventure course.
Lushan Botanical Garden
Lushan Botanical Garden (庐山植物园), founded 1934 by Hu Xiansu, Qin Renchang, and Chen Fenghuai at Hanpokou, Mt. Lushan, Jiangxi, is China's first scientific botanical garden, run by Jiangxi Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with over 10,000 living species and a national-botanical-garden candidacy.
Lushan National Park
Lushan National Park (庐山国家公园), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, inscribed 1996 as China's first World Cultural Landscape; 30,200 ha, Hanyang Peak 1,474 m, Donglin Temple, White Deer Cave Academy, and Global Geopark.
M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка)
The M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка) is a botanical garden and research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, founded in 1935.
Ma On Shan Country Park
Ma On Shan Country Park: 2,880-hectare Hong Kong country park designated 1979 in the Eastern New Territories, named after the 702 m Ma On Shan peak, with MacLehose and Wilson Trail sections and a former iron mine.