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Mellat Park (پارک ملت, n3593379060)
Mellat Park (پارک ملت) names major Iranian urban parks: a 34-hectare English-style park on Valiasr Street in north Tehran with a lake, zoo, and 2008 Cineplex, and a 72-hectare park in west Mashhad with Iran's tallest Middle East Ferris wheel.
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park, in southwestern Colorado, protects nearly 5,000 archaeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Pueblo people from about AD 550 to 1300.
Mexican Department
Mexican Department (მექსიკის განყოფილება), phytogeographic section of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia; 0.7 ha, 38 species of 23 genera, 7 IUCN red-list species, and a Mexican Stone Garden succulent hill.
Midbarium
Midbarium (מדבריום), the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Animal Park, is a 140-dunam experiential desert animal park in Beersheva, Israel, opened July 2024, with about 100 desert species across canyon, steppe, oasis, and savanna habitats, replacing the old Negev Zoo.
Millennium Park
Millennium Park is a 24.5-acre public park in Grant Park in downtown Chicago, opened in 2004 and home to Cloud Gate, the sculpture known as the Bean.
Mini arboretum
Mini arboretum: a small labeled collection of trees and woody plants on a modest site, also called мини-дендропарк. Entry-level ArbNet accreditation needs 25 labeled taxa; examples include Belarus forest districts, Oksky Reserve, and Bluebell Arboretum.
Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis)
Minnehaha Park, also known as Minnehaha Regional Park, is a 167-acre Minneapolis park established in 1889 around Minnehaha Falls, a 53-foot waterfall on Minnehaha Creek.
Minneopa State Park
Minneopa State Park: Minnesota state park five miles west of Mankato, established 1905 (third oldest), known for Minneopa Creek's double waterfall, a drive-through bison range of the Minnesota Bison Conservation Herd, and the 1864 Seppmann Mill.
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum: University of Minnesota public garden and horticultural research facility near Chanhassen/Chaska, established 1958, 1,200 acres, about 700,000 annual visitors, known for cold-hardy plant breeding including Honeycrisp.
Misquamicut State Beach
Misquamicut State Beach, in Westerly, Rhode Island, is the state's most popular and most visited state beach, with over a half mile of Atlantic beachfront. Opened in 1959 after hurricanes destroyed private development, it charges higher fees than other RI state beaches and draws about 70% non-resident visitors.
Mission 66
Mission 66 (1956–1966) was the National Park Service's largest construction program, a roughly $1 billion, ten-year effort led by Director Conrad Wirth that created the visitor center concept, Park Service Modern architecture, and about 100 visitor centers.
Monkey Park Iwatayama
Monkey Park Iwatayama (Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, 嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま) is a Kyoto park on Mount Iwata, opened 1957, where about 120 wild Japanese macaques roam free and are fed through a hut's wire fence.
Monongahela National Forest
Monongahela National Forest: West Virginia national forest established April 28, 1920 under the Weeks Act, about 921,000 acres, home of Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks NRA and the 1973 clearcutting lawsuit that produced the National Forest Management Act.
Mont-Tremblant National Park
Mont-Tremblant National Park (French: parc national du Mont-Tremblant) is a 1,510 km² park in Quebec's Laurentian highlands, created in 1895 as the first park in Quebec.
Montecristo
Montecristo, Isola di Montecristo: uninhabited Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago, 10.4 sq km, 63 km offshore; state nature reserve since 1971, famed for Dumas's novel, 700-year-old holm oaks, and strictly limited visits.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Montezuma Castle National Monument, Camp Verde, Arizona: a five-story, 20-room Sinagua cliff dwelling occupied about 1100-1425 CE, established December 8, 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt, with Montezuma Well added in 1943.
Montreal Botanical Garden
The Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a botanical garden in eastern Montreal, founded in 1931, with about 22,000 plant species in 30 thematic gardens.
Moran State Park
Moran State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Washington state park on Orcas Island, created from Robert Moran's 1921 donation of about 2,700 acres, featuring 2,407-foot Mount Constitution, five lakes, CCC-built stone tower, and forested campgrounds.
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is a sand island 40 km from Brisbane, the world's third largest sand island, mostly Gheebulum Kunungai National Park, jointly managed with Quandamooka people, home to the Tangalooma Wrecks.
Mormon Row Historic District
Mormon Row Historic District, also called Grovont, is a National Register-listed cluster of Mormon homesteads east of Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, settled in the 1890s and known for the Moulton barns.
Morningside Park (Manhattan)
Morningside Park, Manhattan: Olmsted and Vaux hillside park between Morningside Heights and Harlem, 110th to 123rd Streets, about 30 acres, NYC Scenic Landmark, site of the abandoned 1968 Columbia gym.
Morris Arboretum
Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden and educational institution of the University of Pennsylvania in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, opened to the public in 1933.
Morrocoy National Park
Morrocoy National Park (Parque Nacional Morrocoy) is a marine and coastal national park in Falcón state, Venezuela, created in 1974 and known for beaches and snorkeling.
Morton National Park
Morton National Park, NSW, Australia: large national park gazetted 1967, successor to the 1938 Morton Primitive Reserve; sandstone plateaus, gorges, Fitzroy Falls, Bundanoon, Budawangs wilderness, Pigeon House Mountain (Didthul).
Mount Cook National Park
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park (Mount Cook National Park), New Zealand alpine park established 1953, 70,728 ha, home to Aoraki/Mount Cook (3,724 m), Tasman Glacier, Hooker Valley Track, and Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Area.
Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island (Pemetic) is a roughly 100-square-mile island on the Maine coast, the largest in the state, named by Champlain in 1604 and home to most of Acadia National Park and Cadillac Mountain.
Mount Edgcumbe
Mount Edgcumbe, Rame Peninsula, Cornwall: former seat of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, a Grade I registered 205-hectare park and garden with a 1547-1550 Tudor house, Italian, French, and English gardens, and the UK's foremost camellia collection, a country park since 1971.
Mount Katahdin
Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest mountain (5,268 ft per USGS; NPS lists 5,269 ft) in Baxter State Park; Baxter Peak is the northern terminus of the 2,197.9-mile Appalachian Trail; name means "Greatest Mountain" in Penobscot.
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village
Mount Kinka Squirrel Village (ぎふ金華山リス村) is a 1965 walk-in squirrel enclosure atop Mt. Kinka in Gifu, Japan, Japan's first squirrel village, where visitors hand-feed about 40 free-roaming Taiwanese squirrels for 200 yen.
Mount Mazama
Mount Mazama was a 3,700 m Cascade stratovolcano complex in southern Oregon that collapsed 7,700 years ago in a ~50 km³ rhyodacite eruption, forming Crater Lake caldera, the deepest lake in the United States.