How many major parks are in your region? We have 18 Metro-parks, one large state park and a National Wildlife Preserve.

This post was edited by Zack at January 26, 2019 1:35 PM MST

Within a 50 mile radius of my location, there are 3 state parks (nearly 5 sq. mi. ea.), along with 3 large "city" parks (50-80+ acres ea.), along with oodles of national forest land.

2 town parks are the best I can give you.

Virginia.

Hello Element99
My house is surrounded by protected lands, state parks, open space preserves, which are forest lands.
There is Wunderlich Park down the road which consists of the original stables from the Folger estate, the same Folger as the coffee and Abigail ( murdered by the manson family), and trails, horses are avail. there to ride. The stable building is nicer than most houses.
There is Huddart Park, which has trails, picnic areas and such. , Memorial Park, has camping,
There are no city parks with sandboxes and swing sets

This famous one is four blocks east of my house. It's been there since 1856, before much of the city (and, after 1898, the borough) of Brooklyn that grew up around it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)

This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at January 30, 2019 4:36 PM MST

I have been there a few times.  Seems like once part of it was closed for some reason.  I know movie scenes have been filmed in that park and when I first saw that movie National Treasure the scene with the horse seemed like it was there, but I don't really know.  That's nice to have it so close to you in that concrete town of yours.  :)

Well, we have the shore.  There are three very nice parks on the harbor and one on the big river that flows into the harbor.  One of them has a harbor beach which is really nice for children because the tide is very calm.  There is another park about a half mile from my house that is adjacent to a youth baseball complex.  It's a nice walk up there and back.  There's also a nice park by the stadium where the Tampa Bay Rays train and hold camps and stuff like that.   We are in a small-townish place....no big resorts or high-rise buildings.  The county has agree to let a big resort outfit come in and people are POd about it, including me.  They seem to have been unable to sell the condo portion of it so are going to just try to make it all "hotel."  The plans have been downsized twice.  I wish they would abandon it altogether, but they have spent a lot of money already on land prep and building the marina.  I hate to see this happen in my town that tourist have not really found yet.  The cost of living here was 80% of the national average when I moved here.  

We are within a few miles of the Shenandoah Valley National Park .... many miles of scenic highway through the mountains of VA.

Not National Parks as such - the nearest to me are Dartmoor and  Exmoor, each starting perhaps 80 miles away.


However I live on a geological World Heritage Site, misleadingly* called the "Jurassic Coast"; and not far from "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty", various small nature reserves and patches of land protected by being owned by the National Trust but looked after by tenant farmers.

The National Trust, established in the 19C to conserve buildings as well as open land, is not a civil-service agency but a society of charitable status, offering membership to the general public as well as simple access to its properties (though you pay admission fees to the Trust's buildings).

Britain does not have the same system as the USA and some other countries. Our National Parks are not wildernesses but working rural areas with farms, roads, villages, etc; designated as NPs for their overall landscape value; and protected by stringent planning laws. France has a somewhat similar system, of "Parcs Regionelle".



*"... misleadingly... Jurassic Coast...".
The coast is not Jurassic! Its rocks are of Jurassic and Cretaceous age; the coast itself is Quaternary - modern in geological terms.