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Warinanco Park's Azalea Garden many decades ago. The Caxton Brown Memorial Azalea Garden, located just south of the Warinanco Park Administration building. [6] The garden is dedicated to the memory of Caxton Brown of Summit, New Jersey (1879-1952), who helped create, and was a member of, the Union County Park Commission. [7]
Watchung Reservation is the largest nature reserve in Union County, New Jersey, United States. [1] The Watchung area is located on a ridge within northern-central New Jersey, as it consists mainly of the upper valley of Blue Brook, between the ridges of the First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountains.
Garret Mountain Reservation (also spelled Garrett) is a 568-acre (230 ha) park located on First Watchung Mountain (Garret Mountain) in Paterson and Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) in southern Passaic County, New Jersey. [1] [2] In 1967, it was designated a National Natural Landmark as part of the Great Falls of Paterson-Garret Mountain ...
State parks are owned by the state and generally administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. [3] Specifically, “State Park” refers to sites “exhibiting exceptional scenic and natural features and terrain” and that “offer a wide range of recreational opportunities for the public to enjoy”. [4]
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas. [1]
Cave-In-Rock State Park is an Illinois state park, on 204 acres (0.83 km 2), in the town of Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, in the United States. The state park contains the historic Cave-In-Rock, a landmark of the Ohio River. It is maintained by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). [2]
dnr.state.il.us /lands /Landmgt /PARKS /R1 /mttindex.htm Matthiessen State Park is an Illinois state park located a few miles south of the more famous Starved Rock State Park . The main entrances to both parks are located on Illinois State Route 178.
Half of the park's land was donated and half of it was sold to St. Charles County by Henry L. Stealey, a farmer, in 1998. [2] The St. Louis chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects donated their services to its planning. [3] The park opened in 2000. It has a three-acre fishing lake and seven miles of trails and paved surfaces. [1]