Lok Fu Park, Urban park in Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong.
Lok Fu Park is an urban park in Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong, with sports courts, walking paths, and planted garden areas. The grounds are divided into open sections for physical activity and quieter garden areas for sitting and strolling.
The area was once known as Lo Fu Ngam, meaning Tiger Rock Hill, and in the 1940s it was covered with informal settlements before being cleared and developed into a public park. The change shaped the character of the surrounding neighborhood for the following decades.
On the hillside stands a small tombstone dated to the sixth year of the Republic (1917), inscribed for the reburial of old graves moved from the hillside behind Kowloon City's Hau Wong Temple. The park also contains Checkerboard Hill, and in July 2012 a man keeping more than 400,000 bees on the slope drew media attention.
Lok Fu Park occupies a hillside above Fu On Street, with footpaths climbing to the summit, where it connects to the Lok Fu Service Reservoir Rest Garden. The slope means the walk is uphill rather than level, so allow time for the climb. The park lies in Kowloon City District, next to Lok Fu Estate and Lok Fu Playground.
On the hillside stands a small tombstone dated to the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), inscribed with a line about reburying old graves from Hau Wong Temple. It is said to hold remains moved from the hillside behind the Kowloon City temple. The hill within the park is known as Checkerboard Hill.
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