Parc des Chanteraines, Urban park in Gennevilliers and Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France.
Parc des Chanteraines covers 82 hectares across Gennevilliers and Villeneuve-la-Garenne, owned and managed by the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council. It is divided into five sectors: Tilliers with an eight-hectare artificial lake and its bird reserve, Hautes Bornes with a teaching farm and pony club, Fiancés with a botanical garden, Mariniers with a 550-metre riverside path along the Seine, and Louvresses with groves and meadows.
The first section of the park was inaugurated in 1978. The land, owned and managed by the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council, was laid out in five sectors: Tilliers, Hautes Bornes, Fiancés, Mariniers and Louvresses. The Tilliers sector contains an eight-hectare artificial lake with an ornithological reserve.
The park's educational farm and pony club sit in the Hautes Bornes sector, one of five sectors dividing the 82 hectares. Nearby are a diving pit run by UCPA and a shooting range. In the Fiancés sector, a small pond shelters Florida turtles captured elsewhere in the park.
The grounds are spacious, so wearing sturdy shoes and allowing time to explore is wise. The miniature train offers a convenient way to cover distances without walking the entire route on foot.
The park's 82 hectares straddle Gennevilliers and Villeneuve-la-Garenne, though its official address is 46 avenue Georges Pompidou in Villeneuve-la-Garenne. A Centre Loisirs Jeunes on the Tilliers sector, run jointly by the national police and the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council, teaches dinghy and light catamaran sailing to teenagers aged 10 to 18, with police officers as instructors.
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