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Swope Park
Swope Park is an 1,805-acre city park in Kansas City, Missouri. It is the 51st-largest municipal park in the United States, and the 3rd largest park in Kansas City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Trust for Public Land )〕 It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896. In the , it hosts Starlight Theatre, an 8,000+ seat outdoor theater; the Swope Soccer Village sports complex; the Kansas City Zoological Park; ten shelter houses and a host of athletic venues including baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a swimming pool, a frisbee golf course and Swope Memorial Golf Course, a public golf course that hosted the 1949 Kansas City Open Invitational, a PGA Tour event. Also located in the park is the Lakeside Nature Center, one of Missouri's largest native species rehabilitation facilities, which serves as an environmental educational center.
Only a small part of the park is developed, the rest is heavily wooded. The main shelter house is located at 66th street and Swope Parkway.
The park is featured prominently in the fictional works of Robert A. Heinlein, who grew up in and around Kansas City.
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