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Presque Isle State Park
Presque Isle State Park is a 3,200-acre sand spit into Lake Erie at Erie, Pennsylvania, the state's only seashore, a National Natural Landmark with seven miles of beaches, 339+ bird species, and 58 erosion-control breakwaters.
Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill is a 25-hectare Grade II listed public park in Camden, north of Regent's Park, with a 63-metre summit offering protected views of St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster.
Prince Hashem Bird Garden
Prince Hashem Bird Garden (حديقة الأمير هاشم للطيور) is a public bird park in Shmeisani, Amman, Jordan, opened by the Greater Amman Municipality in 1979 on 10 dunums; closed Tuesdays, admission 20 piasters.
Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
Prospect Park, Brooklyn's 585-acre Olmsted and Vaux landscape opened in 1867, with the 90-acre Long Meadow, 60-acre lake, Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway, and Prospect Park Alliance stewardship.
Protected areas of Polynesia and Micronesia
The protected areas of Polynesia and Micronesia are the Pacific islands' national parks, reserves, and marine sanctuaries, covering 6% of the region's land and 19.9% of its waters.
Providence Canyon State Park
Providence Canyon State Park, "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon," is a 1971-established Georgia state park in Stewart County protecting erosion gorges up to 150 feet deep, formed by 1800s poor farming practices in Cretaceous Providence Sand.
Public Garden
A public garden is a cultivated green space holding living plant collections open to visitors for education, recreation, conservation, and display, covering botanical gardens and arboreta.
Public park
Public park: publicly owned, free-access urban green space for recreation and nature. Known as public gardens or pleasure grounds; Victorian-era origin, 27,000 parks in Britain, six quality types, documented access inequities.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River, is a 22,202 ha UNESCO World Heritage park in Palawan, Philippines, with an 8.2 km tidal underground river flowing directly into the sea, inscribed in 1999 and named a New 7 Wonders of Nature site in 2011.
Pureora Forest Park
Pureora Forest Park, northern King Country, New Zealand: a 78,000 ha podocarp forest between the Rangitoto and Hauhungaroa ranges, saved from logging by 1978 protests, home to kōkako, rimu and the Pouakani Tōtara, and the Timber Trail.
Queenstown Gardens
Te Kararo Queenstown Gardens: public garden and recreation reserve on a Lake Wakatipu peninsula in Queenstown, New Zealand, established 1867, managed by QLDC, with a rose garden, ice rink, disc golf, and conifer succession plan.
Quezon Memorial Circle
Quezon Memorial Circle, also known as Quezon City Circle, is a 27-hectare national park in Quezon City, Philippines, dedicated to President Manuel L. Quezon and housing his remains.
Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden
Quinta do Lomelino - Natural Garden is a botanical garden in Feteira, Faial, Azores, with over 600 subtropical and tropical plants, grown from a decades-old palm and exotic tree plantation on the Horta-airport road.
Rabbits Island
Rabbits Island (토끼섬) is a small artificial islet in Songdo Central Park's seawater canal, Incheon, South Korea, home to a wild rabbit colony seen by boat. Namesakes include Okunoshima, Japan's famous Rabbit Island.
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah: 160-acre NPS unit protecting a 290-foot-tall, 275-foot-span Navajo Sandstone natural bridge, established 1910, sacred to six tribes, reachable only by boat or 14-mile hike.
Rajshahi Zoo
Rajshahi Zoo (Shaheed AHM Kamaruzzaman Central Park and Zoo, later Rajshahi Botanical Garden) is a 1972 municipal zoo in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, run by Rajshahi City Corporation since 1996, now largely animal-empty and slated for redevelopment as a safari park.
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa
Ramón Rubial lorategi botanikoa (Jardín Botánico Ramón Rubial) is a 60,000 m2 botanical garden in central Barakaldo, Bizkaia, designed by Ángel de Diego Rica, opened in 2002, with over 300 woody species, a Natur Gela visitor center, and a hedge maze.
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), also spelled Ranthambhore, is a Rajasthan tiger reserve and former Jaipur royal game reserve, made a Project Tiger reserve in 1973 and a national park in 1980, with 57 tigers recorded in 2022.
Ratoon flower garden
Ratoon flower garden (宿根花卉园, perennial flower garden) is a specialized perennial-flower display garden in Beijing's China National Botanical Garden, with a 0.9-ha IBCAS South Garden collection of ~600 taxa and a 1.44-ha North Garden formal garden built in 1980.
Rayong Botanical Garden
Rayong Botanical Garden (สวนพฤกษศาสตร์ระยอง), also called Suan Phruetsasat Rayong, is a Botanical Garden Organization wetland garden in Klaeng district, Rayong, Thailand, protecting about 3,800 rai of Melaleuca flooded forest with over 400 rare native plant species.
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid: Spain's royal botanical garden and CSIC research institute, founded 1755 by Fernando VI, moved to the Paseo del Prado in 1781, with over one million herbarium sheets and the Mutis expedition collections.
Recreation park
Парк відпочинку (recreation park): a landscaped, publicly open territory for mass cultural leisure, recreation, and urban ecological balance; includes Ukrainian parks of culture and recreation, dendrological parks like Sofiivka (1796) and Oleksandria (400 ha), and protected park-monuments.
Regent's Park
The Regent's Park, a Grade I registered Royal Park in London designed by John Nash (1811–1828) on former Marylebone Park hunting land, opened to the public from 1835, home to Queen Mary's Gardens, London Zoo, and Primrose Hill.
Richmond Park
Richmond Park: largest of London's eight Royal Parks at 2,500 acres, a Charles I deer park enclosed by an eight-mile wall, now a National Nature Reserve with deer herds and protected St Paul's view.
Ricketts Glen State Park
Ricketts Glen State Park is a 13,193-acre Pennsylvania state park in Luzerne, Sullivan, and Columbia counties, known for the Glens Natural Area and its 22 named waterfalls, including 94-foot Ganoga Falls, along the 7.2-mile Falls Trail loop.
Riga National Zoological Garden
Riga National Zoological Garden (Rīga ZOO, Rīgas Nacionālais zooloģiskais dārzs), Latvia's oldest zoo, opened 1912 in Mežaparks, Riga; EAZA member since 1992, 353 species, Masterplan 2035, merged into Rīgas meži in 2026.
Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden
The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, also known as Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian federal botanical garden and research institute founded in 1808 by Prince Regent D. João.
Rizal Park
Rizal Park, also called Luneta or Bagumbayan, is a 58-hectare historic urban park in Ermita, Manila, site of Jose Rizal's 1896 execution and of the 14-meter Motto Stella monument holding his remains, administered by the NPDC.
Robert Frost Farm (Derry, New Hampshire)
Robert Frost Farm Historic Site, Derry, New Hampshire: state-owned farmhouse where Robert Frost lived 1900–1911, wrote A Boy's Will and North of Boston poems; National Register listed 1968, open seasonally with poetry trail.
Robert Moses
Robert Moses (1888–1981), New York's unelected master builder, shaped the city and state through parks, bridges, highways, pools, and authorities; famous for The Power Broker controversy and his battles with Jane Jacobs.