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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Forest Park

Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, opened in 1876 and the former site of the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition of 1904, (the St. Louis World's Fair) is one of the large urban landscape parks created in the the U.S. during the later 19th century, following the example of Central Park in New York. At 1370 acres, Forest Park is considerably larger than Central Park.

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Forest Park west of downtown Portland, Oregon is the largest natural forest reserve within a city in the U.S., with over 5000 acres of old-growth forest, threaded by miles of recreational trails. Forest Park stretches for over eight miles, overlooking the Willamette River. By the 1980s, 112 species of birds had been recorded in the park.

Forest Park is also the name of several places in the United States of America:

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