Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument Mountain, then an island, on 1 March 1565. The site was chosen to guard the entrance to Guanabara Bay, and the mountain was important as a signalling point. A landfill connected the island to the mainland in 1697, and various buildings were erected to defend the territory, but the Urca urban neighborhood was only built 300 years after the city was founded. The Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument was created by the city of Rio de Janeiro by municipal decree 26578 of 1 June 2006. The objectives are to guarantee green spaces for leisure in a natural area,
Sugarloaf Provincial Park beginner to expert, as well as other winter activities such as snowshoeing, cross country skiing, ice skating, snowmobiling, and sleigh rides. During the summer months, the resort still operates its ski lift so that park visitors may ride it to take in vistas of the Restigouche River valley. The alpine ski hill also offers a downhill mountain bike park and used to have an alpine slide. which was removed in 2009. Sugarloaf Provincial Park Sugarloaf Provincial Park is an all-season provincial park located in Campbellton, New Brunswick. It opened in 1972. The park includes Sugarloaf Mountain, an extinct late Devonian