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Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy) is a protected area (Landscape Park) in northern Poland, established in 1979, covering an area of 199.3 km2.

The Park lies within Pomeranian Voivodeship and consist of two basic forest areas divided by Wielki Kack, Mały Kack and Dąbrowa districts of Gdynia. The larger, northern part occypies parts of Gdynia, Rumia, Szemud and Wejherowo, whilst the twice smaller, southern area lies within parts of Gdynia, Gdańsk and Sopot.

Within the Landscape Park are 10 nature reserves.

History
In 1971 local authorities took an initiative to create a park in Tricity for recreational purposes. The decision was mainly influenced by the fact that expanding cities started to plan new building sites on forest areas and by worsening of the Gdańsk Bay water quality, forcing turists to give up bathing and adopting forests as their main destination for recreation. It were tourist organisations, like eg. PTTK that proposed creation of a landscape park in 1972

Three years later, on 20 October 1975 the bill about creation of lanscape park on forest areas in Tricity was passed by National Voividship Council of Gdańsk. The bill proposed creation of the park on the basis of forest located in Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot. In 1976 Voivode of Gdańsk accepted the General site plan for Landscape Park.

The Park was created on 3 May 1979 according to the decision of National Voividship Council of Gdańsk with the total area of 201.04 km2. The decision cancelled previous bill form 1975 and made the Tricity Landscape Park the nineth landscape park in Poland. Of its total area 181.54 km2 were occupied by forests, whilst .45 km2 were occupied by water.

On 25 November 1994 the area of the park was increased to 203.12 km2. The same decree regulated the rules of behaviour when visiting the park. The last change in the area was made on 3 September 1998. The size of the park was reduced to the present state after excluding the village of Łężyce from the protected area.

Reference
Tricity Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy