Kowloon Tsai Park, Urban park in Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Kowloon Tsai Park is an 11.66-hectare public park on Inverness Road in Kowloon Tsai, opened in 1964. It holds three football fields (two artificial turf, one natural grass), two basketball courts, two 7-a-side pitches, two tennis courts, a public swimming pool with a 50-metre competition pool, a Bauhinia Garden and children's playgrounds. The Kowloon Tsai Sports Ground, with an international-standard football field, running tracks and a grandstand seating 1,216, stands inside the park.
The land was originally used for sand extraction during runway expansion works for Kai Tak Airport in the 1950s. Since 1964, it has been operated as a public park.
The park's name comes from Kowloon Tsai, the area it occupies. Its Bauhinia Garden is named after the flower on Hong Kong's emblem. The swimming pool, Kowloon's first, was paid for by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club and opened with the park in 1964. Smoking is banned throughout except in designated smoking areas.
The park is accessible from Lok Fu MTR station and offers basketball courts, tennis facilities, and two artificial grass fields for football. A swimming complex operates during the warmer months.
The checkerboard on the hilltop was the visual marker for aircraft making the runway 13 approach to Kai Tak Airport. The hill became known as Checkerboard Hill because of it. The park itself was built on land partly leveled for the runway extension.
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