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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984, criteria vii-viii) in Alberta and British Columbia, combining Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks with Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, 2,360,000 ha including the Burgess Shale fossil site.
Canaima National Park
Canaima National Park (Parque Nacional Canaima) is a 3-million-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bolívar state, Venezuela, created in 1962, known for tepuis, Angel Falls, Pemón communities, and threats from illegal gold mining, tourism, and fire.
Canol Heritage Trail
Canol Heritage Trail: 371 km backcountry route in the NWT Mackenzie Mountains, following the abandoned WWII Canol Road and pipeline from Norman Wells toward the Yukon border; set to become Doi T'oh Territorial Park.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Tsegi) is an 84,000-acre NPS unit entirely on Navajo Nation trust land near Chinle, Arizona, jointly managed with the Navajo Nation, inhabited nearly 5,000 years, established by the 1931 act, with canyon-floor access requiring authorized Navajo guides.
Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park, southeast Utah, USA: 337,598-acre park established 1964, split by the Green and Colorado rivers into Island in the Sky, The Needles, and The Maze districts, with no roads linking them.
Cape Disappointment State Park
Cape Disappointment State Park, also called Fort Canby, is a 2,023-acre Washington state park at Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula, with two lighthouses, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Fort Canby ruins, and one of the state's largest campgrounds.
Cape Henlopen State Park
Cape Henlopen State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Delaware state park at Lewes where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, built on the former Fort Miles WWII coastal defense site, with six miles of shoreline, 19.3 miles of trails, and seasonal closures at The Point for nesting piping plovers.
Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Cape Krusenstern National Monument, a 560,000-acre NPS unit in northwest Alaska on the Chukchi Sea, protects over 100 beach ridges preserving 5,000 years of Inupiat and pre-Inupiat archaeology, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973.
Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef National Park, a Utah national park since 1971 (monument 1937), protects the 100-mile Waterpocket Fold monocline, Fremont petroglyphs, and the historic Fruita orchards; a Gold-tier Dark Sky Park with record 1.4 million 2024 visits.
Carlsbad Cavern
Carlsbad Cavern is a limestone cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, with over 30 miles of mapped passages and a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, southeastern New Mexico: 119+ sulfuric-acid-formed limestone caves in Permian Capitan Reef, Big Room (largest North American chamber, 8.2 acres), Lechuguilla Cave, Brazilian free-tailed bat flights, national park since 1930, World Heritage Site 1995.
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres"
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres" (Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres"), a 1978-founded botanical garden and research institution in Turbaco, Bolívar, Colombia, conserving tropical dry forest flora across nine hectares with the Caribbean region's leading herbarium.
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Cass, West Virginia: a state park preserving an 11-mile logging railroad and company town founded in 1901, with Shay geared steam locomotives climbing to Bald Knob, 4,842 feet, West Virginia's third highest peak.
Castle Island (Massachusetts)
Castle Island is a 22-acre South Boston peninsula in Boston Harbor, home of Fort Independence (formerly Castle William), the oldest fortified site in British North America, fortified since the 1630s and a state park since 1962.
Cathedral Caverns State Park
Cathedral Caverns State Park, near Grant in Marshall County, Alabama, is a show cave state park opened in 2000, known for its 128-foot-wide entrance, the Goliath stalagmite (45 feet tall, 243 feet around), and Mystery River.
Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is a 21-acre downtown Atlanta park built for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, funded privately, reopened in 1998, and now the heart of the city's tourism district.
Central Botanical Garden
Central Botanical Garden (조선중앙식물원), also called Pyongyang Central Botanical Garden, is North Korea's largest botanical garden, founded April 30, 1959 at Mt. Taesong, Pyongyang, with thousands of plant species, gift-plant greenhouses, and branch gardens at Samjiyon, Wonsan, and Ongjin.
Central Park
Central Park is an 843-acre public park in Manhattan, New York City, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux from their 1858 winning Greensward Plan. Built on land displaced from about 1,600 residents including Seneca Village, it now draws 42 million visits yearly and is managed by the Central Park Conservancy, founded 1980.
Cévennes
Cévennes: mountain region of the southern French Massif Central, home to the Cévennes National Park (created 1970, inhabited core), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1985, and the Causses and Cévennes World Heritage agro-pastoral landscape (2011).
Cévennes National Park
Cévennes National Park (Parc national des Cévennes) is a French national park created in 1970 in Lozère and Gard, with farming treated as part of its heritage.
Champ de Mars
Champ de Mars: large Paris 7th-arrondissement park between the Eiffel Tower and École Militaire, over 24 hectares; military drill ground from 1765, Festival of the Federation 1790, massacre 1791, park by Formigé, Paris 2024 venue.
Channel Islands National Park
Channel Islands National Park protects five of the eight California Channel Islands, established March 5, 1980 from the 1938 national monument, with waters extending one nautical mile offshore, 145 endemic species, and the island fox recovery.
Chapultepec
Chapultepec (Bosque de Chapultepec) is a hill, forest, and castle in western Mexico City, home to the National Museum of History; its name means "on the grasshopper hill."
Chatelherault Country Park
Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire: 500-acre park around William Adam's 1732 hunting lodge for the 5th Duke of Hamilton, opened 1987, with Cadzow Oaks, Avon Gorge, and Cadzow Castle.
Cheaha State Park
Cheaha State Park, established 1933, is Alabama's oldest continuously operating state park, a 2,799-acre park on Cheaha Mountain, the state's highest point at 2,407 feet, with CCC-era stone structures and Cheaha Lake.
Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden, London's oldest botanic garden (founded 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries), is a four-acre walled garden at 66 Royal Hospital Road holding around 4,000 medicinal, edible and useful plants, run as a charity since 1983.
Chelyuskinites Park
Chelyuskinites Park (Парк Чалюскінцаў) is a 78-hectare culture-and-recreation park in Minsk, Belarus, created 1928–1932 on the Komarovsky pine forest and named in 1934 after the Chelyuskin steamship expedition; it has an amusement park, children's railway, and metro station of the same name.
Cheollipo Arboretum
Cheollipo Arboretum (천리포수목원) is Korea's first private arboretum, on the Taean peninsula, founded by Carl Ferris Miller (Min Byung-gal); 589,429 square meters, 16,895 plant taxa, records named National Registered Cultural Heritage in 2026.
Cherkassy National University Botanical Garden
Botanical garden of Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine (Ботанічний сад ЧНУ); founded 1936 as an agrobiostation, the only botanical garden in Cherkasy Oblast, with 172 woody and about 300 herbaceous taxa on 4.57 ha.
Cherry Springs State Park
Cherry Springs State Park, an 82-acre park on PA 44 in Potter County, Pennsylvania, is a Gold Level International Dark Sky Park (2008) and DCNR's first Dark Sky Park (2000), famed for 360-degree Bortle-dark skies, two annual star parties, and the Woodsmen Show.