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TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel site, announced on Tuesday the winners of its first Travelers' Choice Attractions Awards, and New York's Central Park came in first on the Top 25 Parks - United States list and came in at the top of the list for Top 25 Parks - World, second only to Vancouver's Stanley Park.
The awards are based on the quantity and content of millions of reviews from TripAdvisor travelers. "Stunning vistas, calm solitude or bustling throngs, Central Park has it all. An integral part of every one of our visits to New York," the site notes of the park. Of its 14,513 reviews from the TripAdvisor community, 10,952 gave it a rating of "Excellent" and another 3,057 rated it as "Very good."
Read the original release and see other winners and categories here.