Cities with the highest operating spending on parks and recreation in the U.S. 2016

* Operational spending relates to year-in-year-out work such as landscape and tree maintenance, facility maintenance, trash removal, recreational programming, planning, administration, policing, lighting, marketing, etc. Capital expenditure is not included. If a city had more than one agency, their expenditures were combined.
** Estimate based on previous year's figures.
Cities taken into consideration were the 100 most populous cities in the U.S.
Figures have been rounded.