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Singapore Botanic Gardens
Singapore Botanic Gardens: 1859-founded tropical botanic garden, Singapore's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (2015), famed for Henry Ridley's rubber work, the National Orchid Garden, and an 800,000-specimen herbarium.
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, also called Pamplemousses Garden, is Mauritius's oldest botanical garden, begun in 1736 as a vegetable garden and shaped by Pierre Poivre; famous for giant Victoria amazonica water lilies and palms.
Siskiwit Lake (Isle Royale)
Siskiwit Lake is the largest inland lake on Isle Royale, Michigan, in Lake Superior, cut off from the big lake about 5,000 years ago; site of the 1850 Siskowit Mining Company steam stamp mill and drumlin fields to its west.
Site of Reversible Destiny
Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park (養老天命反転地), an experimental art-architecture park by Arakawa and Madeline Gins in Gifu, Japan, opened 1995, 18,100 sq m, built to challenge the body and reverse destiny.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, formerly Sítio Santo Antônio da Bica, is Roberto Burle Marx's former home and landscape laboratory in Barra de Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, holding over 3,500 plant species and inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage cultural landscape in 2021.
Skyline Drive
Skyline Drive is a 105-mile scenic road along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, and the park's only public road.
Smith Rock State Park
Smith Rock State Park is a 650-acre Oregon state park near Redmond and Terrebonne, a world-renowned sport climbing destination with over 2,000 routes on welded tuff cliffs above the Crooked River, drawing about 746,000 visitors annually.
Smugglers' Notch State Park
Smugglers' Notch State Park (Vermont state park, Stowe, Lamoille County) sits in Mt. Mansfield State Forest near the 1,000-foot-cliff pass named for 1807 Embargo Act smuggling; CCC-built campground relocated 2002-2003 after a 1996 land exchange.
Sopron Botanical Garden
Sopron Botanical Garden (Soproni Botanikus Kert, Egyetemi Élő Növénygyűjtemény) is the University of Sopron's 17.2-hectare protected forest botanical garden, founded 1923 after the Selmecbánya academy moved, with a famous evergreen collection.
South African National Biodiversity Institute national botanical gardens
The national botanical gardens of the South African National Biodiversity Institute are ten protected gardens across seven provinces, spanning over 7,400 hectares and including Kirstenbosch, founded in 1913.
South China National Botanical Garden
South China National Botanical Garden (华南国家植物园), in Guangzhou, China; founded 1929, made China's second national botanical garden in 2022; conserves about 19,766 plant taxa and leads global Magnoliaceae ex situ collections.
Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park, Tasmania's largest national park (618,190 ha, gazetted 1951, expanded 1968 and 1976), a remote wilderness in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with the South Coast Track, Melaleuca, Lake Pedder, and Mount Anne.
Sperry Chalet
Sperry Chalet is a 1913 stone backcountry hotel in Glacier National Park, Montana, built by the Great Northern Railway's Hill family, one of two surviving backcountry chalets, destroyed by the 2017 Sprague Fire and rebuilt by 2020.
Springbrook National Park
Springbrook National Park: 6,558 ha Queensland park in the Gold Coast hinterland, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, with four sections, waterfalls, glow-worms, and the Natural Bridge arch.
Square of Family, Love and Fidelity
Сквер Сямʼі, Любові і Вернасці (Square of Family, Love and Fidelity) is a public square in Soligorsk, Belarus, opened 1 September 2019, known for its Hen Ryaba children's art playground, fountains, and skate park.
Square with sculptures
Square with sculptures (Сквер з скульптурами) is a 24/7 public park on Prymorska Street 6А in Zatoka, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, with shade trees, benches, and photo sculptures near the Zatoka Lift Bridge.
St James's Park
St James's Park is London's oldest Royal Park, a c 32 ha Grade I registered park in Westminster formed under Henry VIII, redesigned by Andre Mollet for Charles II in 1660 and remodelled by John Nash in the 1820s.
St Stephen's Green
St Stephen's Green: 9-hectare Victorian public park in central Dublin, enclosed 1663–1664, redesigned by William Sheppard for Lord Ardilaun and reopened 27 July 1880; lake, fountains, 750 trees, 1916 Rising site.
Standin' on the Corner Park
Standin' on the Corner Park, Winslow, Arizona: a Route 66 park opened in 1999 commemorating the Eagles' song "Take It Easy," featuring a John Pugh mural, a Ron Adamson bronze statue, and a flatbed Ford.
Stanley Park
Stanley Park is Vancouver's 400-hectare urban park on a downtown peninsula, opened in 1888 and named for Governor General Lord Stanley, with a 9 km seawall, national historic site designation (1988), and Coast Salish history.
Starved Rock State Park
Starved Rock State Park: Illinois state park in La Salle County along the Illinois River with 18 St. Peter Sandstone canyons, 13 miles of trails, Fort St. Louis history, and 2.4 million annual visitors.
State parks of the Western United States
State parks of the Western United States are protected areas managed by individual western state governments, holding 65 percent of the nation's state park acreage with 18 percent of its population.
Statue of Liberty National Monument
Statue of Liberty National Monument is a US National Park Service unit in New York Harbor protecting the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and Ellis Island. Established 1924, NPS-administered since 1933, ferry-only access, 3.7 million visitors in 2023.
Stephen Mather
Stephen Tyng Mather (1867-1930), borax industrialist and first director of the National Park Service (May 1917-January 1929), built the campaign that created the NPS in 1916 and funded parks from his fortune.
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain, Georgia: world's largest exposed granite mass near Atlanta, site of the giant Confederate Memorial Carving (Davis, Lee, Jackson, 1915–1972), Stone Mountain Park, and the 1915 KKK rebirth.
Strathclyde Country Park
Strathclyde Country Park: 400-hectare free-access country park at Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around man-made Strathclyde Loch (filled 1975). 8-lane 2 km rowing course, Commonwealth Games rowing venue, built over the demolished village of Bothwellhaugh.
Strawberry Fields (memorial)
Strawberry Fields is the John Lennon memorial in Central Park, New York, near West 72nd Street opposite the Dakota. Named for "Strawberry Fields Forever," dedicated October 9, 1985, it centers on the Naples-donated Imagine mosaic.
Sturt National Park
Sturt National Park, NSW's largest western park at 325,329 ha in the arid Corner Country near Tibooburra, borders Queensland and South Australia, contains Ramsar-listed Lake Pinaroo and the Dingo Fence, and hosts the Wild Deserts mammal reintroduction project.
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Silver Jubilee Agricultural Park
Taman Pertanian Jubli Perak Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (TPJPSHAS) is a 504.4-hectare agro-forestry agrotourism park on the Kuantan–Kemaman bypass, Pahang, Malaysia, begun 1987, opened by the Sultan 24 July 1999, revitalized in 2024.
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান)
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান), West Bengal, India: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 in the world's largest mangrove forest, core of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, home of swimming Bengal tigers.