How to build a national park: The Robertian way in SimCity 3000

Contributor/author(s): Robert Angier (President of Robertian Nation)

Note: This requires the building plop cheat. See the article "Access all buildings cheat" in the Underground for more information.

After using that cheat, here is a new way to build a National Park: The Robertian way.

Find a 16x23 open space over 100 meters above ground. Surround it with road and fill it with green lawn and on the edges put in Colonnaded Gardens, Camino de Verdes and in the colonnaded area also place a few gazebos (the residential one, not the recreational one). On one of the edges, find a suitable area for the Gateway Arch, Arc de Triomphe or Brandenburg Gate landmark as a gateway to the park. "Green lawn" and other buildings slightly pollute, so if you plan to place a geyser park inside the area for example, you may need to place a SimCity Castle on another edge to raise land values around the park and eliminate pollution; otherwise, you will have no visitors to the area.

If you aren't going to place the Geyser park inside, I would normally place a ballpark or zoo where the castle could have gone.

Now use the 'plop' cheat again and find the Parque Aire Fresco filler tile and in the center, place a line of them so that it looks like all one path (make sure it leads from the landmark building). To both sides of the path, delete the green lawn one tile away from the Parque Aire Fresco and place the most dense pine trees in the empty areas (the dense trees show up at above 100 meters of elevation).

Now that it looks slightly okay, delete a couple of green lawn tiles and place in a few commercial filler tiles (e.g. TGIF Hangspot, Yuppie memorial, Fountain of GenX) or fountains. On the corners of the park, place large parks.

You should now have a nice-looking Robertian National Park! Sit back and congratulate yourself.

See also
Creating a national park
Create a ski resort