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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).
There are 15 state forests in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [1] Tennessee state forests. Name (by alphabetical order) Location (of main entrance) Bledsoe State Forest:
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]
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
The Cherokee National Forest contains such notable sites as the Ocoee River (site of the 1996 Olympic whitewater events); 150 miles (240 km) of the Appalachian Trail; Citico Creek Wilderness; Big Frog Mountain within Big Frog Wilderness, and surrounds both the Tennessee Valley Authority Watauga Reservoir and Wilbur Reservoir.
What’s the big deal about D.C.’s cherry blossom trees? In 1912, Tokyo’s Mayor Yukio Osaki sent trees to Helen Taft, the wife of then-president William Taft as a gift of goodwill from Japan ...
Close to an apartment complex and the Horry County Memorial Library in Carolina Forest at 2250 Carolina Forest Blvd., the 21-acre property’s many trees were cut down and driven away in late ...
It is home to Bowie Nature Park which, at approximately 722 acres (2.92 km 2), is one of the largest city-managed parks in the state of Tennessee. As a comparison, New York's Central Park is 843 acres (3.41 km 2). Fairview has two Elementary Schools, Fairview, and Westwood serving over 1,000 students with grades K-5.