Garden Route National Park

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The Garden Route National Park is a national park in the Garden Route region of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces in South Africa. It is a coastal reserve well known for its indigenous forests, dramatic coastline, and the Otter Trail. It was established on 6 March 2009 by amalgamating the existing Tsitsikamma and Wilderness National Parks, the Knysna National Lake Area, and various other areas of state-owned land. The park covers about 1210km2 of land; of this, about 685km2 was already part of the predecessor national parks. The park includes a continuous complex of approximately 605km2 of indigenous forest.