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
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