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Chiang Mai Night Safari
Chiang Mai Night Safari (เชียงใหม่ไนท์ซาฟารี) is a government-run nocturnal zoo in Hang Dong district near Chiang Mai, Thailand, opened in 2006 as the first night zoo in Thailand.
Chicot State Park
Chicot State Park: 6,400-acre Louisiana state park near Ville Platte, Evangeline Parish, established 1939; largest in the state system, on 1,643-acre Lake Chicot, with a 20-mile loop trail and the Louisiana State Arboretum.
Children's Park
Дзіцячы парк (children's park): a public park designed primarily for children's play and recreation. Chief example, the Central Children's Park named after Maxim Gorky in Minsk, founded 1805, made a children's park in 1960, 28 ha, 54 m Ferris wheel.
Chinese Garden (Russia)
Chinese gardens in Russia: the Friendship Garden in Saint Petersburg (2003, Shanghai's gift, copy of Yu Yuan) and Huamin Park in Moscow (2019, largest Chinese landscape park outside China), plus historic chinoiserie gardens.
Chinese Herbal Garden
A Chinese herbal garden (中草药园) is a garden growing Chinese medicinal plants for conservation, education, and research, ranging from university nurseries to small school plots.
Chitwan National Park
Chitwan National Park (चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज), established 1973 in Nepal's Terai lowlands, is the country's first national park and a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage Site protecting one-horned rhinos and Bengal tigers across 932 km² plus a 750 km² buffer zone.
Chongqing Zoo
Chongqing Zoo (重庆动物园), in Yangjiaping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, opened in 1955 as West District Park and renamed in 1960; a 43.4-hectare municipal zoo with 240+ species, known for giant panda, South China tiger, and red panda breeding.
Chonnam National University Arboretum
Chonnam National University Arboretum, a university arboretum in Gwangju, South Korea, run by the Department of Forestry for teaching and research; site of pest surveys (fall webworm, spotted lanternfly) and the first Korean report of Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae canker on evergreen oak.
Choshi-Kei Monkey Park
Choshi-Kei Monkey Park (銚子渓自然動物園 お猿の国, Choshikei Osaru no Kuni) is a nature zoo in Choshikei Gorge, Tonosho, Shodoshima, Kagawa, with provisioned wild Japanese macaques, a prefectural natural monument; closed since August 18, 2025 for staff shortage.
Chugach State Park
Chugach State Park is a roughly 495,000-acre Alaska state park, one of the four largest in the United States, bordering Anchorage. Established 1970 by Governor Keith Miller, it offers over 280 miles of trails, Crow Pass, Flattop, campgrounds, and is Alaska's most visited recreation destination.
City of Rocks State Park
City of Rocks State Park is a New Mexico state park in Faywood, established in 1952 around volcanic rock pinnacles rising as high as 40 feet.
Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Cleveland Botanical Garden, a ten-acre botanical garden and conservatory in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio; founded 1930 as the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, the country's oldest civic garden center; since 2014 part of Holden Forests & Gardens with the Holden Arboretum.
Cleveland Metroparks
Cleveland Metroparks is a park district in Northeast Ohio, established in 1917 as Ohio's first countywide park district, managing over 25,000 acres across 18 reservations, a zoo, and nine golf courses.
Clove Garden
Clove Garden (丁香花园) is a historic 2.04-hectare garden estate at 849 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, traditionally linked to Li Hongzhang but documented as a 1938 renaming after Dingxiang cigarettes.
College of Pharmacy Herb Farm
College of pharmacy herb farms, or medicinal herb gardens (약초원, 薬草園), are university-maintained medicinal plant collections for pharmacy teaching and research; examples include Ewha (est. 1956, 270 species) and Kyushu University's regulated-plant garden.
Coloane Arboretum
Coloane Arboretum (路環樹木園, Arboreto de Coloane) is a tree garden on Estrada do Alto de Coloane, Macau, set up in 1986 with over 100 local and exotic tree species as a reforestation gene bank.
Colonial botanical garden networks
Colonial botanical garden networks were systems of botanic gardens European empires ran across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania to move valuable crops like tea and rubber.
Colorado National Monument
Colorado National Monument is a 32-square-mile NPS unit near Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado, proclaimed by Taft on May 24, 1911 after John Otto's campaign, preserving red rock canyons, monoliths, and the 23-mile Rim Rock Drive.
Colorado State Parks
Colorado State Parks is a system of 43 parks covering over 230,000 acres, managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and drawing more than 16 million visitors a year.
Commemorative Plant Garden
Commemorative Plant Garden (名人名树园), a 3.8-hectare garden established 1999 in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, holding memorial trees planted by Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Wen Jiabao, Prince Philip, and founder Cai Xitao, plus rare tropical plants.
Company's Garden
Company's Garden, Cape Town public park and heritage garden, remaining part of the 1652 VOC vegetable garden under Jan van Riebeeck; oldest garden in South Africa, 3.2 ha, National Monument 1962.
Conservation in New Zealand
Conservation in New Zealand: protection of endemic species and ecosystems led by the Department of Conservation (est. 1987) on ~8.7 million ha, centered on Predator Free 2050 pest eradication, Treaty of Waitangi co-governance with iwi, and legal personhood for Te Urewera, the Whanganui River, and Taranaki Maunga.
Conservatory Garden
Conservatory Garden: Central Park's only formal garden, six acres off Fifth Avenue at 104th–106th Streets, Manhattan. Opened 1937, designed by Gilmore Clarke; French, Italianate, and English sections; restored 2022–2025.
Coombe Abbey
Coombe Abbey (Combe Abbey), a Cistercian monastery founded in 1150 near Coventry, dissolved 1539, later the Craven family seat with Capability Brown parkland; now a Grade I listed hotel in a Grade II registered country park.
Coongie Lakes National Park
Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park, proclaimed 2005 in far northeast South Australia, protects the Ramsar-listed Coongie Lakes wetlands of Cooper Creek, 100 km northwest of Innamincka, with 205 bird species, boom-and-bust flooding ecology, and Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka co-management.
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park: country park and Local Nature Reserve near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on former limestone quarries; SSSI lakes with rare starry stonewort, Medieval Village, and the 2025 Aqua Park pilot paused for 2026.
Country parks in England
Country parks in England are countryside areas at the edge of urban areas, provided by local authorities under the Countryside Act 1968 for public enjoyment.
Country parks in Northern Ireland
Country parks in Northern Ireland are recreation-led countryside sites run by district councils or the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, informally named because the region has no legal country park designation.
Crape myrtle garden
Crape myrtle garden (紫薇园), a themed garden for Lagerstroemia trees, notably the 2006 1-hectare garden at China National Botanical Garden, Beijing, with 249 plants of 20+ cultivars blooming as 'Hundred-Day Red' from June to September.
Crater Lake
Crater Lake, Oregon: a 594 m deep caldera lake filling collapsed Mount Mazama (formed ~7,700 years ago), deepest lake in the United States, ninth deepest on Earth, centerpiece of Crater Lake National Park (1902).