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Sariska Tiger Reserve
Sariska Tiger Reserve, Alwar district, Rajasthan (Aravalli hills), a 1,213 sq km Project Tiger reserve created in 1978. Its tigers were poached to local extinction by 2004, then reintroduced from Ranthambhore from June 2008, reaching 56 tigers by 2026.
Save America's Treasures
Save America's Treasures (SAT) is a U.S. federal matching-grant program created in 1998 under Executive Order 13072, administered by NPS with IMLS, NEA, and NEH, funding preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections through 1:1 matched grants from the Historic Preservation Fund.
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) is the German sandstone hill country along the Elbe southeast of Dresden, named by painters Zingg and Graff; its 1990 national park covers 9,344 ha with 1,135 climbable sandstone peaks.
Schastye Est
Счастье есть ("Happiness exists"), park of culture and recreation in Kirovsky district, Perm (Zakamsk), opened 28 August 1971, renamed after a 2014 contest, 1.7 ha pine-forest park with Ferris wheel, run by MAUK PermPark, slated for 200-million-ruble 2027 redevelopment.
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Scotts Bluff National Monument is a 3,003-acre National Park Service unit near Gering, Nebraska, established December 12, 1919 by Woodrow Wilson, preserving an 800-foot bluff, Mitchell Pass Oregon Trail ruts, New Deal-era buildings, and the largest William Henry Jackson watercolor collection.
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle (Death Valley Ranch), a 1920s Spanish Revival estate in Grapevine Canyon, Death Valley National Park, built by Albert Johnson and named for con man Walter "Death Valley Scotty" Scott; closed since the 2015 flood, with limited tours and full reopening eyed for November 2028.
Sea Breeze Gardens
حدائق نسيم البحر (Hada'iq Nasim al-Bahr, Sea Breeze Gardens) is a family entertainment and gardens venue in Najaf old city, Iraq, overlooking the dry Najaf lake basin; a 7,500 m² landscape project built 2014–2016 for the Zamzam Tourism Group at a cost of 1 billion Iraqi dinars.
Seaside Park Soleil Hill
Seaside Park Soleil Hill (Nagai Uminote Park Soleil Hill, 長井海の手公園 ソレイユの丘) is a free-admission municipal park in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; opened 2005 as Japan's first PFI urban park, renewed April 2023 with a 15 m athletic course, zip line, glamping, and dog areas.
Segyeggoch Florist
Segyeggoch Florist (세계꽃식물원) is a greenhouse garden and garden center in Dogo-myeon, Asan, South Chungcheong, South Korea, showing about 3,000 horticultural plant species year-round; admission is a 10,000 won plant-purchase coupon.
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine: 10-acre Pacific Palisades meditation sanctuary on Sunset Boulevard, founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, dedicated 1950, spring-fed Lake Santa Ynez, Gandhi ashes memorial, survived the 2025 Palisades Fire.
SELION RISTA
SELION RISTA (セリオンリスタ) is a free glass-walled indoor park at Akita Port, opened 1995 next to Port Tower Selion; 2,304 m², themed on the Omono River and Sea of Japan, home to a famous udon vending machine.
Seoul Botanical Garden
Seoul Botanical Garden (서울식물원), officially Seoul Botanic Park, is a 504,000 m² botanical garden and park in Magok, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, opened 2018-2019, with four zones, a 12-cities theme greenhouse, and about 4,600 plant species.
Seoul Grand Park
서울대공원 (Seoul Grand Park) is a 9.13-million-m² park complex in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, opened May 1, 1984 when Changgyeongwon's zoo moved there; includes Seoul Zoo (first Asian AZA accreditation, 2019), botanical garden, Seoul Land, and MMCA.
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park, California's second-oldest US national park (established September 25, 1890), protects giant sequoias including the General Sherman Tree; jointly administered with Kings Canyon since 1943.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park, a TANAPA-managed park in northern Tanzania established in 1951 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, protects 1,476,300 ha of savannah and the Great Migration of about two million wildebeest, gazelles, and zebras.
Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), Piauí, Brazil: 1979 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, with over 1,000 archaeological sites, rock art, and the disputed Pedra Furada pre-Clovis dates.
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso
Sežana Botanical Garden at Villa Mirasasso (Botanični vrt Sežana ob vili Mirasasso), a Slovenian botanical garden founded 1848 by the Greek Scaramangà family of Trieste, with ~170 species, an 1890 Schönbrunn-style greenhouse, and protected cultural-monument status.
Shade Garden
Shade garden: a garden of low-light-adapted plants, often forest understory species. Key facts: shade classes by hours of midsummer sun, plant shade-avoidance responses, dry-soil challenges under trees, and notable examples in Montréal, Hartford, and Chicago.
Shalamar Gardens, Lahore
Shalamar Gardens (شالیمار باغ), also Shalimar Gardens, a 16-hectare Mughal garden in Lahore built by Shah Jahan 1641–1642 on three terraces with 410 fountains; UNESCO World Heritage Site 1981, in Danger 2000–2012.
Shanghai Botanical Garden
The Shanghai Botanical Garden is a botanical garden of 81.86 hectares in Xuhui district, central Shanghai, established in 1974, holding about 10,500 species and known for its Shanghai-style bonsai.
Shanghai Wild Animal Park
Shanghai Wild Animal Park (上海野生动物园), opened November 18, 1995 in Pudong, is China's first national-level safari park: 153 hectares, 200-plus species, bus and boat tours, 5A rating since 2007.
Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden
Shangxianhe Wetland Rose Garden (尚贤河湿地玫瑰园), a small rose and climbing-rose garden in Shangxianhe Wetland Park, Binhu District, Wuxi, China; reached via bus 130, 135, or 156 to Xuntangqiao stop, popular for spring blooms and wedding photography.
Shelton Johnson
Shelton Johnson, Yosemite National Park ranger since 1987, portrays Buffalo Soldier Sgt. Elizy Boman of the Ninth Cavalry, researches soldier descendants, and won the Freeman Tilden Award and Honorary Kentucky Colonel honors.
Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Blue Ridge park established 1935; 198,754 acres, 105-mile Skyline Drive, 101 miles of Appalachian Trail, 1.7 million 2024 visitors, Old Rag Granite about 1.1 billion years old.
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale
Shipwrecks of Isle Royale: ten National Register-listed Lake Superior wrecks (Algoma, America, Kamloops, Emperor, Monarch, and others) lost near Isle Royale National Park along the hazardous Passage Island shipping passage, now managed dive sites.
Shorts Ground Cover Garden
Shorts Ground Cover Garden, a 1992 groundcover display garden at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington, created from Harriet Shorts' idea, renovated and dedicated to her in 2002, with a recirculated stream and Tateuchi Pavilion.
Shot at Dawn Memorial
Shot at Dawn Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire: Andy DeComyn's 2001 statue of blindfolded Private Herbert Burden with 306 stakes honoring WWI soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice, pardoned in 2006.
Silent Valley National Park
Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, India: a 237.52 sq km tropical evergreen rainforest in the Nilgiri Hills, saved from a hydroelectric dam by the Save Silent Valley movement, national park since 1984, core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
Silver Falls State Park
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon's largest state park at over 9,000 acres near Salem, opened in 1933 and is known for the 7.2-mile Trail of Ten Falls, which passes ten waterfalls and runs behind four, including 177-foot South Falls.
Simlipal National Park
Simlipal (Similipal) National Park, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India: a 2,750 sq km tiger reserve, UNESCO biosphere reserve, and since April 2025 India's 107th National Park, known for wild melanistic black tigers and the Barehipani and Joranda waterfalls.