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authorities handling large forest park reservations which are used exten- 

 sively by the people in the neighboring cities. 



d. State Ownership. A study of state park and forest developments 

 throughout the United States during 1925 showed a total of approximately 

 2,550,000 acres in state parks, including areas under other designations but 

 of equivalent service. Many of these state areas are so located as to serve 

 as large outlying forest park reservations for the inhabitants of neighbor- 

 ing municipalities. Two of the notable examples of such location and 

 service are the Palisade Interstate Park and the Allegany State Park, 

 both in New York, the one serving the people of New York City and neigh- 

 boring cities and the other the inhabitants of Buffalo and other cities in 

 that region. 



e. Special Park Districts. A few cities throughout the country have 

 secured a system of outlying park and recreation areas through special 

 park districts. The Metropolitan Park District of Boston and the Metro- 

 politan Park District of Cleveland are outstanding examples of this method 

 of acquiring, developing and managing a system of outlying parks and 

 recreation areas that may be used by the inhabitants of the city which 

 the districts surround. The Boston Metropolitan Park System comprises. 

 11,035.80 acres (1926) and the Metropolitan Park System of Cleveland 

 comprises approximately 10,000 acres (1926). These districts are organ- 

 ized under special acts of the state legislatures of the respective states. 



/. Federal Government. Cities in the vicinity of Federal Forest Pre- 

 serves, e.g., Los Angeles, Oakland, Berkeley and others in California, 

 Denver in Colorado, Salt Lake City in Utah, and others, make use of 

 these preserves for municipal camps and various other recreational pur- 

 poses. In fact millions of people from all parts of the United States make 

 use of the recreational opportunities provided through the Forest Service 

 of the Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service of the 

 Department of the Interior. In this sense these areas serve as outlying 

 wild parks for the use of the people of the entire nation. 



The possible mileage limits of the use of properties of the character 

 of forest park reservations by the people of cities may be greatly increased 

 in the future, possibly in the near future, by the further perfection of the 

 airplane and its production at wholesale quantities at a price within reach 

 of the average person. 



V. BOULEVARDS AND PARKWAYS 



These types of park properties are given a separate classification 

 because they are, in design and primary function, totally unlike any other 

 type of properties to be found in a park system. 



