Hazlehead Park
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| Type | Public Park |
| Location | Aberdeen, Scotland |
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| Size | 180 hectares (1,800,000 m²) |
| Opened | (bought by the city for the public) 1920 |
| Operated by | Aberdeen City Council |
| Status | Open all year |
Hazlehead Park is a large public park in the Hazlehead of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was opened to the public in 1920 and is 180 hectares in size.
A large, heavily wooded park on the outskirts of the city, it is popular with walkers on the many tracks throygh forests, sports enthusiasts (particularly mountain bikers) naturalists and picnickers. Horse riders from the nearby Hayfield horse centre ride on the tracks that snake through it.
There are football pitches, two golf courses, a pitch and putt course and a horseriding school. The park has a significant collection of sculpture by a range of artists and heritage items which have been rescued from various places within the city and features Scotland's oldest maze, first planted in 1938.
[edit] Golf
The park is most famous for its two 18 hole and its pitch and putt golf courses. The courses are public owned and there are no handicap or other restrictions for those who play on them. They are excellent by public owned course standards but obviously due to their nature as public courses they are not the best around.
The No. 1 course was designed by Alistair MacKenzie, better known for designing the Augusta National and with significant private investment and upgrade of facilities, the course would be considered one of the best in the world due to its excellent design.
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