Golden Gate Park most-visited city park in the United States after Central Park in New York City, Lincoln Park in Chicago, and Balboa and Mission Bay Parks in San Diego. In the 1860s, San Franciscans began to feel the need for a spacious public park similar to Central Park, which was then taking shape in New York City. Golden Gate Park was carved out of unpromising sand and shore dunes that were known as the Outside Lands, in an unincorporated area west of San Francisco's then-current borders. Conceived ostensibly for recreation, the underlying purpose of the park was housing development and the westward
Moses Gate Country Park these are Fragrant orchid "Gymnadenia conopsea", the Northern Marsh orchid "Dactylorhiza purpurella", the Early Marsh orchid "Dactylorhiza incarnata" and other species such as Common Broomrape, Twayblade, Blue fleabane and Carline thistle. The reserve covers 8.8 hectares (21 acres). Moses Gate Country Park Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, (National Grid Ref: SD 749063) is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys 3 miles (5 km) south of Bolton town centre on the A6053 road which connects Farnworth to Little Lever. It is a Local