Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington is one of the largest urban parks in the United States. The 702-acre park includes Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, the Rose Garden, Rhododendron Garden, the Camp 6 Logging Museum, beaches, trails, a boardwalk, a boathouse, a ferry dock for the Washington State Ferry crossing to Vashon Island, and most notably a stand of old-growth forest. President Andrew Johnson originally set aside these 700 acres as a military reservation – although it never hosted any military operations. In 1888, then President Grover Cleveland signed a bill authorizing Tacoma to use the reserve as a public park. Today the park is free to the public, and more than two million people visit it annually. Point Defiance Park is maintained and operated by the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma.
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