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The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) is an executive branch agency of the government of the District of Columbia in the United States. The department plans, builds, and maintains publicly owned recreational facilities in District of Columbia, including athletic fields, community centers, parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, spray pools and tennis courts.
Construction of the lake was completed in 1981, [3] and resulted in the flooding of the community of Shaw, West Virginia and the realignment of West Virginia Route 46. [4] The dam, rolled earth and rock fill, is 296 feet (90 m) high, has a crest length of 2,130 feet (650 m) and contains 10 million cubic yards (7.6 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 ) of material.
Betsy Head Park is a 10.55-acre (4.27 ha) public park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.The park occupies two non-contiguous plots diagonally across from each other at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, covering a collective 10.55 acres (4.27 ha).
Lake Fairfax was originally developed as a private recreation facility in the late 1950s - early 1960s by local developer and entrepreneur Mack Slye "Jack" Crippen Jr, the former owner of Roer's Safari, now known as NOVA Wild. In 1965, James S. Mott and his wife Marguerite were denied entry to the park because they were black.
A 6.59-acre (26,700 m 2) park in what was a community trash pit and sandlot baseball field became Allen Park, the city's first public park [2] established in an upscale area of the city. In 1912, the city's first public playground was established at Fountain Park. [ 1 ]
Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens is a National Park Service site located in the north eastern corner of Washington, D.C., and the near the Maryland state border. Nestled near the banks of the Anacostia River and directly west of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens preserves a plethora of rare waterlilies and lotuses in the cultivated ponds near the river.
Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD) is a special parks district located in the eastern part of Washington County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Created in 1955, the district covers all of the city of Beaverton and many of those communities surrounding Beaverton in the Portland metropolitan area .
Some of its functions may overlap with that of a community centre. Leisure centres are staffed by attendants who carry out a range of tasks to help and supervise the people using the leisure centre's facilities, and act as swimming pool lifeguards, gym instructors and coaches, offering advice, motivation, and expertise to users. Leisure centres ...