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Crater Lake National Park
Crater Lake National Park, established May 22, 1902 in southwest Oregon, protects Crater Lake, the deepest US lake (592 m), formed in the Mount Mazama caldera about 7,700 years ago; Oregon's only national park.
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is the world's only public diamond search site on its original volcanic source, a 37-acre field on the Prairie Creek lamproite pipe with a finders-keepers policy and over 37,000 diamonds found since 1972.
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho: a 753,000-acre NPS-BLM co-managed volcanic landscape along the 52-mile Great Rift, established 1924, expanded 2000, preserve designated 2002, with Holocene lava flows, lava tubes, and low volcanic threat.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen: an 11-acre (4.5 ha) free university botanic garden founded in 1898 by Anne Cruickshank, holding over 2,500 labelled plants with arboretum, sunken garden, rose garden, and herbaceous border.
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, near Corbin, Kentucky, is a state resort park around the 125-foot Cumberland Falls, known for its regular moonbow, CCC-era origins, DuPont Lodge, campgrounds, and a dedicated 1,294-acre nature preserve.
Cunningham Falls State Park
Cunningham Falls State Park is a Maryland park near Thurmont in the Catoctin Mountains, created in 1954 and home to the state's highest cascading waterfall.
Custer State Park
Custer State Park is South Dakota's first and largest state park, 71,000 acres in the Black Hills, established 1919, known for its bison herd, Buffalo Roundup, and the Needles Highway, Iron Mountain Road, and Wildlife Loop scenic drives.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, formerly Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, is Ohio's only national park: 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, established 1974, redesignated 2000, with the 20-mile Towpath Trail and scenic railroad.
Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, Florida botanical garden and theme park founded by Dick and Julie Pope, opened January 2, 1936, closed September 23, 2009; famed for water ski shows and Southern Belles; site now LEGOLAND Florida, distinct from the South Carolina preserve.
D-Sky Park
D-Sky Park (數碼天空景觀園區), also called Shuma Tiankong, is a mountain scenic park and cafe in Xinle Village, Jianshi Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, at about 1,200 m elevation, with NT$200 redeemable admission, viewing platform, trails, and space-cabin lodging.
Dalat Flower Plateau Eco-Tourism Area
Cao Nguyên Hoa Đà Lạt (Dalat Flower Plateau), a 120+ ha private eco-tourism park on Tà Nung pass about 11 km from Da Lat; opened 2022, with flower gardens, Seven-T Coffee, Đà Lạt Swing, and Greenline Luge.
Dance floor
Танцювальний майданчик (dance floor) is an open-air park dancing area of Soviet-era Ukrainian parks of culture and rest, exemplified by Lviv's 'Клітка' and Kyiv's 'Жаба', with live music, paid entry, and many surviving as rentable municipal property.
Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden
Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden (大坪頂熱帶植物園) is a free, 24-hour urban tropical botanical garden in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Opened January 1, 2010 near Fongshan Reservoir, it holds 500+ species and 60,000+ plants across themed zones and four trails.
Darien National Park
Darien National Park (Parque Nacional del Darién), Panama's largest protected area at 579,000 ha in Darien Province, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981 and biosphere reserve bridging North and South America.
Davis Mountains State Park
Davis Mountains State Park is a 2,708-acre Texas state park two miles west of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, established in 1933 and developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden (大兴安岭寒温带植物园), a 1,906-hectare AAAA scenic area 10 km south of Jiagedaqi, Heilongjiang; described as China's only cold-temperate flora and fauna gene bank, planting Mongolian Scots pine and white birch.
Death Valley Germans
Death Valley Germans: Dresden family of four (Egbert Rimkus, Georg Weber, Cornelia Meyer, Max Meyer) who vanished in Death Valley National Park in July 1996; their stuck rental van was found that October, and their remains were located in 2009 near Goler Wash.
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park (CA/NV), formerly Death Valley National Monument (1933, park 1994), is the largest U.S. national park outside Alaska: Badwater Basin at 282 feet below sea level, 130°F heat, borax mining history, Timbisha Shoshone homeland.
Deer Garden
Deer Garden names a small zoo in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan (鹿園), the Hong Kong-founded fish soup noodle chain Deer Garden Signatures (鹿園魚湯米線), Shanghai's Michelin-starred Lu Yuan, and deer enclosures in Chinese parks.
Delaware Water Gap
Delaware Water Gap is a deep gap where the Delaware River cuts through Kittatinny Mountain on the New Jersey–Pennsylvania border, flanked by Mount Minsi and Mount Tammany.
Denali National Park and Preserve
Denali National Park and Preserve, originally Mount McKinley National Park, is an Alaska park established in 1917 and expanded in 1980 around Denali, North America's highest peak.
Denali State Park
Denali State Park is a 325,240-acre Alaska state park created in 1970 along the George Parks Highway, south of Denali National Park, known for the 37-mile Kesugi Ridge Trail and close views of Denali.
Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute
Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute over North America's tallest peak: Koyukon Athabascan name Denali versus Mount McKinley, named 1896 by prospector William Dickey; federal name changed 2015 (Jewell) and back 2025 (Trump EO 14172).
Dendrological Garden "Dzyadok"
Дэндралагічны сад «Дзядок» (Dendrological Garden "Dzyadok"), a 2-hectare garden in Hlybokaye District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus, recorded in OpenStreetMap and one of 19 mapped Belarusian gardens.
Dendropark Drykolle
Дэндрапарк «Дрыколле» (Дендропарк «Дреколье») is a 3-hectare arboretum near the village of Дреколье in Vitsebsk district, Belarus, allocated in 2016 between lakes Дрекольское and Боровское and planted by the Vitebsk forestry enterprise.
Dendropark of the Surazh Forestry
Дэндрапарк Суражскага лясгаса (Surazh forestry dendropark), a 3-hectare botanical dendrological park in Surazh, Vitebsk district, Belarus, run by ГЛХУ «Суражский лесхоз» (founded 1936) and used for school forestry excursions.
Devil's Lake State Park (Wisconsin)
Devil's Lake State Park, near Baraboo in Sauk County, Wisconsin, founded 1911, is the state's third oldest, largest, and most visited state park, with 500-foot quartzite bluffs, a 360-acre glacial lake, 423 campsites, and Ice Age Trail segments.
Devils Postpile National Monument
Devils Postpile National Monument, also spelled Devil's Postpile, is a small protected area in Madera County, California, established in 1911 near Yosemite, known for its columnar basalt formation and 101-foot Rainbow Falls.
Devils Tower
Devils Tower (Bear Lodge, Mato Tipila) is a phonolite porphyry igneous monolith in northeastern Wyoming, the first U.S. national monument (1906), the largest known columnar jointing, a tribal sacred site with a June voluntary climbing closure.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Alberta's badlands, 48 km northeast of Brooks, preserving Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils of the Dinosaur Park Formation, 75-77 million years old.