Talk:South Mountain Park

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2007 comments[edit]

South Mountain Park is a City park.Planetary Chaos 17:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and it clearly states that in the first line. The "Ranking Clarification" is to show that the texas park IS a state park and NOT a city park. Wikibofh_(talk) 21:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The part at the top says it is the second largest "urban park" which is true, even though it is the largest city park. We can try to make it more clear, but the previous versions simply made it wrong. Wikibofh_(talk) 21:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The park is the largest urban park in the nation at 24,247.56 acres, covering some 37 square miles, all within the city limits of El Paso.
Franklin Mountains State Park Planetary Chaos 21:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That is correct. But it is a state park, not a city park. So it is the largest urban which is why we say SM is the second largest urban, but it is not the largest city park, which SM is and Franklin is not? Are we saying the same thing here? Wikibofh_(talk) 21:19, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

you're right.....sorry. Planetary Chaos 21:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- No problem. Wanted to make sure we were on the same page. :) Wikibofh_(talk) 22:06, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- - I hadn't read the who thing..That will teach me.-- Planetary Chaos Talk to me 20:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ranking of size[edit]

The statistics for ranking of park size changes frequently, thanks to ongoing efforts at municipal park creation.

The Center for Trust for Public Land is the authoritative guide to muncipal, state, and other parks nationwide.

A reference has been placed at the beginning of the article that is current and is updated frequently. (cf. http://www.tpl.org/content_documents/ccpe_100LargestCityParks.pdf

All incorrect statistics on the page have been removed.

South Mountain Park remains the largest municipally-owned park, but not the largest municipally-adjacent park.

Since municipally-adjacent parks are available for the recreation of municipal residents, no matter who owns the land, it is still an urban (municipal) park.

Pairadice ca 16:41, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The www.tpl.org link is a dead link. Wilkyisdashiznit (talk) 18:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Urban park?[edit]

I'm failing to see why this article denotes itself as one of the largest urban parks in the US? There is nothing urban about South Mountain and virtually nothing urban about Phoenix. There is certainly no comparison with Philadelphias' Fairmount Park, which is probably a true urban park. Wrightchr (talk) 02:29, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]