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Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a 12-hectare botanical garden in the Canary Islands specializing in palms, built on a former rubbish dump.
Palo Duro Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon, the "Grand Canyon of Texas," is the second largest canyon system in the United States: about 120 miles long, up to 20 miles wide and 800 feet deep, carved by the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River, with a 28,000-acre state park.
Parc de Saleccia
Parc de Saleccia, a 7-hectare landscaped botanical park near L'Île-Rousse, Corsica, with over 900 Mediterranean plant varieties, rebuilt after the 1974 fire, opened to the public in 2005.
Parc national du W (Niger)
Parc national du W (Niger): 220,000-ha national park in Tillabéri, named for the W-shaped Niger River bend, created 1954, World Heritage since 1996, core of the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex.
Parc national Tsimanampesotse
Parc national Tsimanampesotse (Tsimanampetsotsa National Park), a national park and Ramsar site (no. 962, 1998) in Atsimo Andrefana, southwestern Madagascar, protecting alkaline Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, spiny forest, karst caves, and the blind fish Typhleotris madagascariensis.
Parc zoologique de Robbah
Parc zoologique de Robbah (حديقة الحيوانات بالرباح) is a zoological park in Robbah commune, El Oued wilaya, Algeria, at 33.28627 N, 6.89492 E, holding over 3,000 animals of about 255 species with breeding programs for North African species.
Paris Mountain State Park
Paris Mountain State Park is a 1,700-acre South Carolina state park six miles north of Greenville, built by the CCC in the 1930s on former Greenville watershed land with Lake Placid, and listed on the National Register in 1998.
Park
Park: land set aside for recreation or conservation, from enclosed private hunting estates to 17th-century public recreation grounds, Olmsted-designed urban parks, and national parks beginning with Yellowstone in 1872.
Park bench
A park bench is a free public seat in parks and gardens, a form of street furniture constant in designed parks since the nineteenth century.
Park conservancy
A park conservancy is a private nonprofit organization that raises and spends money to operate or improve a public park it does not own, working under agreement with government.
Park designation categories in Latin America
Park designation categories in Latin America are national legal categories for protected areas that differ by country, with national park the only category common to all South American systems.
Park Güell
Park Güell: Gaudí-designed garden complex on Barcelona's El Carmel hill, built 1900–1914 as a failed garden-city housing estate, a municipal park since 1926, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984, with 4.4 million annual visitors.
Park HaMishpacha
Park HaMishpacha (פארק המשפחה, Family Park) is an 18-dunam free-entry family park in central Karmiel, Israel, on Sderot Kakal, known for its 'A Flat for Rent' play tower, water fountains, and 2014 State Comptroller ruling ending entrance fees; other Israeli cities have parks of the same name.
Park Kultura i Otdikha
Park Kultura i Otdikha (Парк культуры и отдыха, Park of Culture and Rest) is a public park and tourist attraction in central Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, near Tuymaada Stadium, with forest walking and running trails.
Park of Legends
The Park of Legends (Parque de las Leyendas) is a zoo, botanical garden, and archaeological park in San Miguel, Lima, Peru, inaugurated on 20 March 1964 and administered by PATPAL.
Park of the Four Elements
Парк чатырох стыхій (Park of the Four Elements) is an 18.5-hectare public park opened in 2008 in central Salihorsk, Belarus, with zones symbolizing fire, water, earth, and air, including a 740-jet fountain, sponsored by Belaruskali.
Park of the Reserve
Park of the Reserve (Parque de la Reserva), Lima: 8-hectare 1929 park by Claude Sahut honoring War of the Pacific reservists, home since 2007 to the Circuito Mágico del Agua, 13 fountains with a Guinness record and nearly 3 million 2024 visits.
Park ranger
Park ranger: uniformed protector-educator of parks and public lands; US federal series GS-0025 (NPS, BLM, USFWS, Reclamation); duties span interpretation, law enforcement, search, and rescue; descends from 1880s Army cavalry administration of Yellowstone.
Parks and open spaces in London
Parks and open spaces in London: over 3,000 publicly accessible green spaces covering 18% of the city, managed by boroughs, the Royal Parks, and the City of London, facing funding pressure and unequal access.
Parliament Square
Parliament Square, Westminster, London: garden square opposite the Palace of Westminster, laid out 1868 in Barry's scheme, redesigned 1948, with statues of Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, and Fawcett, and special protest legislation.
Parque das Aves
Parque das Aves (Bird Park) is a private bird park and conservation center in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, founded by Dennis and Anna Croukamp in 1994 beside Iguaçu National Park; the largest bird park in Latin America, focused on Atlantic Forest species.
Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
Parque del Buen Retiro (El Retiro), Madrid's ~120-hectare former royal garden created for Philip IV in the 17th century, a municipal public park since 1868, home of the Crystal Palace and Alfonso XII monument, UNESCO-listed in 2021.
Passport to Your National Parks
Passport to Your National Parks, also called the NPS passport or 'Old Bluey', is Eastern National's 1986 guidebook program: free ink cancellation stamps at 433 National Park Service units, annual collectible stamp sets, and proceeds funding park education and preservation.
Patapsco Valley State Park
Patapsco Valley State Park, founded 1907 as the Patapsco Forest Reserve, is Maryland's oldest state park: 16,043 acres along 32 miles of the Patapsco River, over 200 miles of trails, a CCC camp that became the nation's first conscientious objector camp, and the Thomas Viaduct.
Pawtuckaway State Park
Pawtuckaway State Park is a 5,000-acre New Hampshire state park in Nottingham, featuring Pawtuckaway Lake, a 700-foot beach, a 192-site campground, five cabins, a volcanic ring dike, and glacial-erratic boulder fields.
Peace Arch Park
Peace Arch Park: international park straddling the US-Canada border at Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, jointly managed by Washington State Parks and BC Parks around the 67-foot Peace Arch dedicated in 1921 by Sam Hill to mark the Treaty of Ghent centennial.
Peacock Garden
Peacock Garden (孔雀园): a walk-through zoo or park exhibit where peafowl, usually blue peafowl, roam loose on lawns. Notable examples include Kunming Zoo's 1.4-hectare garden (1999), Yunnan Wildlife Park's thousand-bird lawn, and Jiayuguan's 30,000-bird breeding garden.
Peak District
Peak District: upland area at the southern Pennines' tip, protected as the UK's first national park (17 April 1951), 555 sq mi across Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, with Dark and White Peak landscapes, 13 million annual visitors.
Pelham Bay Park
Pelham Bay Park is a public park in the northeastern Bronx on Long Island Sound, at 2,772 acres the largest municipal park in New York City.
Penang Botanic Gardens
Penang Botanic Gardens (Taman Botani Pulau Pinang), the Waterfall Gardens, is Malaysia's oldest botanic garden, established 1884 by Nathaniel Cantley with first curator Charles Curtis on a former granite quarry at Penang Hill, about 29 hectares with free entry.