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Shelby Farms is a public park located in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, in East Memphis.It is one of the largest urban parks in the US and the world, at a size of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) and covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (341 ha).
Conservation of the Old Forest began in 1901, when Overton Park was created when the 342 acres (1.38 km 2) Lea Woods was purchased by the City of Memphis. 172 acres (0.70 km 2) of its original climax oak-hickory cover was preserved as the Old Forest. In 1912, the area was described as follows: More than thirty kinds of native timber are found ...
Tennessee has 59 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]
Big Cypress Tree State Park is a state park in Weakley County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. The park is named after a large and old bald cypress tree that once stood on the park's grounds. The tree was approximately 1,350 years old when it was killed by lightning in 1976.
Overton Park is a large, 342-acre (138 ha) public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee.The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, the Greensward, and other features.
This list of notable botanical gardens and arboreta in Tennessee is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Tennessee [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Justin Timberlake recently offloaded a gorgeous, 127-acre piece of Tennessee property. A real estate listing revealed that the 43-year-old singer put his sprawling countryside property on the ...
Today, other than the occasional stray skidder cable or railroad tie, there is little immediate evidence that logging ever took place in the area. In 1969, Maryville College , with the help of the National Park Service, established the Tremont Environmental Education Center at the site of a former Job Corps center in Walker Valley.