A recreation area is a type of protected area designated in some jurisdictions. In the United States, National Recreation Areas are administered by several different agencies.

Recreation area
RECREATION AREA
Patterns of use in an urban forest recreation area.
A study of the aero-anion concentration in forest recreation area.
Eighteen years of herbaceous layer recovery of a recreation area in a mesic forest.
Preliminary Report On the Excavation of a Burial - Amistad Recreation Area
Fire History of Piñon-juniper Woodlands on Navajo Point, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
A method used for estimating mountain goat numbers in the Babine Mountains Recreation Area, British Columbia
Nesting Ecology and Predation of Diamondback Terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin, at Gateway National Recreation Area, New York
A multifactor ecological classification of the northern hardwood and conifer ecosystems of Sylvania Recreation Area, Upper Peninsula...