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Sunflower Garden
Sunflower Garden (百万葵园, Million Sunflower Garden), Guangzhou: China's first and largest sunflower-themed park, opened April 2002 in Nansha's Xinken, 26 hectares, about one million sunflowers; closed August 27, 2024 amid rent arrears and lost 4A rating.
Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort, also called New Helvetia, is John Sutter's 1839 adobe fort in Sacramento, California, now a reconstructed state historic park, end of the California Trail, and California Historical Landmark.
Suwon Arboretum Irwol
Suwon Arboretum Irwol (일월수목원), a public flat-terrain urban arboretum in Jangan-gu, Suwon, opened May 19, 2023 beside Irwol Reservoir; 101,500 m², about 2,016 plant species, 16 themed gardens, first Korean public arboretum with BF certification.
Sydney Harbour National Park
Sydney Harbour National Park: a just-under-400-hectare NSW national park of harbour foreshores, headlands and islands, protecting Aboriginal sites, Fort Denison, the Quarantine Station, and threatened bandicoots and little penguins.
Table Rock State Park (South Carolina)
Table Rock State Park is a 3,083-acre South Carolina state park in Pickens County, named for the 3,100-foot Table Rock Mountain granite dome, built by the CCC 1935-1941, on the National Register, with two lakes and Foothills Trail access.
Tai Lam Country Park (大榄郊野公园)
Tai Lam Country Park (大榄郊野公园) is Hong Kong's second largest country park, 5,412 ha in the western New Territories, designated 1979, containing Tai Lam Chung Reservoir, granite terrain, and MacLehose Trail sections 9 and 10.
Taï National Park
Taï National Park (Parc national de Taï), southwest Côte d'Ivoire near the Liberian border: a 508,186 ha primary tropical rainforest, national park since 1972, World Heritage site since 1982 and Biosphere Reserve since 1977, home to pygmy hippopotamus, 11 monkey species, and Taï chimpanzees.
Taiyuan Botanical Garden
Taiyuan Botanical Garden (太原植物园) is a botanical garden in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, built on a former coal-mining site and known for its three timber-lattice greenhouse domes.
Takagi Village Primrose Gardens
Takagi Village Primrose Gardens (くりん草園, Kurinso-en), in Kujukutani Forest Park, Takagi Village, Nagano, Japan: a free garden where tens of thousands of kurin-sō Japanese primroses, the village flower, bloom mid-May to early June; its May festival was cancelled in 2026 after heat damaged the plants.
Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden
Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden (高崎山自然動物園) is a free-ranging monkey park at 628 m Mount Takasaki between Oita and Beppu, opened March 1953, where about 1,000 wild Japanese macaques in troops B and C are baited to public feeding grounds.
Taman Botani Perak
Taman Botani Perak is a botanical garden on Jalan Air Terjun, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia, built by Jabatan Landskap Negara as the northern-zone botanical garden, with 13 themed plant courts and Phase 1 completed in 2020.
Tangshan Zoo
Tangshan Zoo (唐山动物园) is a free-admission public zoo in Kaiping District, Tangshan, Hebei, China, opened September 10, 2016, holding 123 species and 2,054 animals, closed Mondays, entry by reservation.
Taroko National Park (太鲁阁国家公园)
Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園), Taiwan national park established November 28, 1986; 92,000 hectares across Hualien, Taichung, Nantou; marble Taroko Gorge carved by the Liwu River; largely closed and phased-reopening after the April 3, 2024 earthquake.
Tasman National Park
Tasman National Park, a national park in south-eastern Tasmania proclaimed in 1999, protects the Tasman and Forestier peninsulas, Australia's highest sea cliffs (300 m), the Three Capes Track, and a third of Tasmania's plant species.
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA): 1,584,233 ha World Heritage site in southwest Tasmania, inscribed 1982, meeting 7 of 10 criteria, saved from the Franklin dam in 1983.
Tatton Park
Tatton Park is a historic country estate at Knutsford in Cheshire, England, with a mansion, gardens, and a deer park; the Egerton family owned it for nearly 400 years until 1958.
Tatton Park Gardens
Tatton Park Gardens: 50 acres of historic gardens at Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, created by the Egerton family with designers Repton, Wyatt, and Paxton; noted Japanese Garden (1910), maze, arboretum; National Trust since 1958.
Tayrona National Natural Park
Tayrona National Natural Park (Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona), declared 1964 in Magdalena, Colombia: 19,309 ha of Caribbean coast and Sierra Nevada foothills, dry forest, corals, four indigenous peoples' sacred territory, and Colombia's most visited national park.
Taza Zoo
Taza Zoo (حديقة الحيوانات تازة, Parc zoologique de Taza) is a 24-hectare zoo near El Aouana, Jijel Province, Algeria, opened in July 2006, holding about 240 animals of 50 species and drawing over 850,000 visitors in 2014; not to be confused with Tazekka National Park in Morocco.
Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki
Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki, formerly Egmont National Park, is a national park on New Zealand's North Island around the 2,518 m dormant volcano Taranaki Maunga; renamed and granted legal personhood (Te Kāhui Tupua) in 2025.
Tehran Birds Garden
Tehran Birds Garden (باغ پرندگان تهران), Lavizan Forest Park, northeast Tehran; Iran's largest bird garden, opened 1392 (2013), with Dashtchar and free-flight Abchar phases under a large cable-net roof.
Teide National Park
Teide National Park (Parque Nacional del Teide) is a UNESCO World Heritage national park on Tenerife, Canary Islands, centered on the 3,718 m Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano, Spain's highest peak, with 18,990 ha and over 4 million annual visitors.
The Acidophillic Beds
The Acidophillic Beds (Surbundsbedene) are acid-soil garden beds in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, Denmark, planted for ericaceous plants such as rhododendron, saved by volunteers after a 2011 closure plan.
The Alpine Bed
The Alpine Bed is a garden in Denmark, an example of the alpine bed: a raised, well-drained rock planting for low-growing mountain plants, related to rock and crevice gardens.
The Aromatic Garden
An aromatic garden is a garden organized around the fragrance of its plants rather than their appearance, laid out so visitors can smell them at close range.
The Battery (Manhattan)
The Battery (formerly Battery Park) is a 25-acre park at the southern tip of Manhattan, home to Castle Clinton National Monument, once a fort, theater, 8-million-immigrant depot, and aquarium, now gardens and ferry hub.
The Botanic Garden of Brera
The Botanic Garden of Brera (Orto Botanico di Brera) is a 0.5-hectare historic botanical garden behind Palazzo Brera in central Milan, founded 1774-1775 under Maria Theresa of Austria, run by the University of Milan, with medicinal plant beds, two elliptical ponds, and two 250-year-old Ginkgo biloba.
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku
The Botanical Garden of the University of Turku (Turun yliopiston kasvitieteellinen puutarha), on Ruissalo island, Turku, Finland: founded 1924 at Iso-Heikkilä, moved to Ruissalo 1956; six greenhouses and a 23-hectare outdoor garden with over 5,000 plant taxa.
The Bugaboos
The Bugaboos are granite spires over 3,000 m in the Purcell Mountains of southeast British Columbia, protected as Bugaboo Park since 1969/1995, famed for alpine rock climbing, the Conrad Kain Hut, and heli-skiing's birthplace.
The Ecological and Botanical Garden in Damascus
The Ecological and Botanical Garden (الحديقة البيئية), or Eco Garden/Eco Park, is Syria's first botanical garden and eco-park, opened 2003–2005 beside the Damascus Citadel; about 2,500 m², 30 islands, 300 species, run by volunteers with a smoke-free café.