6-443: Lynn Woods Reservation (founded 1881) is a 2,200-acre (8.9 km) municipal forest park located in Lynn , Essex County, Massachusetts. The City of Lynn's Department of Public Works, Park Commission and Lynn Water & Sewer Commission share jurisdiction and management of Lynn Woods Reservation. The park encompasses nearly one-fifth of the entire land area of the city and represents
12-493: A significant natural, watershed and public recreational resource in eastern Massachusetts. The entire portion of the reservation with Lynn city bounds was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as a historic district . (A small portion of the park is actually in neighboring Saugus .) The northwestern part of Lynn has long been public land, its southern sections used as pasture land as early as
18-590: Is a forest or wood owned by a town or city. Such woods often have a higher density of leisure facilities like play parks , restaurants and cafes, bridleways , cycle paths and footpaths . Unlike an urban forest , which is located largely or entirely within an urban area and may be privately owned, a municipal forest is publicly owned and may well be outside the city or town to which it belongs. Most urban forests will be municipal forests, but many municipal forests are non-urban. In Germany municipal forests are usually corporate forests in accordance with Section 3 of
24-560: The 18th century. Breed's Pond, at the southern end of the reservation, was dammed for industrial use in the 1840s, and Dungeon Rock became a tourist attraction in the 1850s. Demands for improved water supply (for both consumption and fire suppression) in the 1860s led to organized activities to conserve the woodlands surround Breed's and Walden Ponds. In 1881 the Trustees for the Free Public Forest were established to oversee
30-967: The Federal Forest Act (§ 3 Bundeswaldgesetz ). Among the best known municipal forests in Germany are the Tiergarten (210 ha) in Berlin, the Berlin City Forest (28,500 ha) which includes the Grunewald (ca. 3,000 ha) and Köpenick Forest (ca. 6,500 ha), the Frankfurt City Forest (3,866 ha), the Dresden Heath (6,133 ha) and the Rostock Heath (6,004 ha), which are some of
36-413: The area. They were folded into a newly organized Lynn Parks Department in 1889 to manage 1,600 acres (650 ha) of water supply and park land in the reservation; this grew to the current 2,200 acres (890 ha) in 1892. The Happy Valley Golf Course was developed in the 1930s, as was the road and trail network that covers the park. Municipal forest A municipal forest or municipal woodland
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