Variation in Recreational Resources

• Natural Resources - Involvement of the physical environment (with the necessary sense of human use)

• Recreational Resources - Modification of the resource for recreational purposes

• Sense that recreation resources

– can be created

– can be destroyed

– are perceived differently by different users

Clare Gunn

• Tri-parted classification of resources

• Natural Base Resources

May include human habitation

May be a more ‘muted’ environment

Costa Rica

Hoodoos outside of Banff

Note: no direct access - fragile resource

Okanagan Valley - ease of observation

Human habitation is part of the experience

Geysers in Yellowstone - note small rocks used as signs (unobtrusive)

Minimal enhancement - ‘appropriate’ development

The disadvantages of parking lots

The disadvantages of not having parking lots

Hope Slide

The intrusion but necessity of concrete in the jumble of the Hope Slide area

Natural Base Resources

• Minimal change

• Sufficient for

Human-made Base Resource

• These are resources that have historical or cultural relevance

Black Creekenhanced modern setting

Petroglyph Provincial Park

exposed

accessible

Protection for more vulnerable and sacred petroglyphs (environment and people)

No access for paying public

access for religious rites

Synthetic or Artificial Resources

• Resources without any distinctive or human created environment

• Land is necessary for the facility and ancillary services

Disney’s Jungle Cruise

right land, climate, market

Disney’s Main Street, USA

False skylines

False images

Tulip fields as attractions or the formal gardens of the Hague

Wonderland

Old industrial area on the back of canals in Georgetown Washington DC

Monuments

Such as the Dam in central Amsterdam

So it may be totally false

Or the setting enhances the artificial construction