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National Park しぜんこうえん Nature Park "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
Map description:	A spacious and beautiful park. It's connected to the Pokéathlon Dome.
Location:	Between Routes 35 and 36
Region:	Johto
Generations:	II, IV
Location of National Park in Johto.
Pokémon world locations

The National Park (Japanese: しぜんこうえん Nature Park) is a location in Johto. It is located to the north of Goldenrod City, between Route 35 and Route 36. The Bug-Catching Contest takes place there every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Geography

The park is separated into two main areas. The southern part contains several benches and a patch of flowers. Several people rest in this area, including a Teacher with a Persian that gives a Quick Claw to the player.

The northern part is circular and resembles a Poké Ball, with a fountain in the center, a semi-circular patch of tall grass to the south and another of long grass to the north, the first instance of this type of grass that is encountered in the games. Trainers can be battled only within these patches of grass, though there are no Trainers to battle during a Bug-Catching Contest.

In Generation II, most of the people talk about printing pictures off from the Pokédex, in order to promote the games' connectivity to the Game Boy Printer that was released two years before them. In Generation IV, they instead talk about using the Pokéwalker.

In Generation IV, it neighbors the Pokéathlon Dome.

Items

Bug-Catching Contest prizes

For the prizes received by competing in the Bug-Catching Contest, see Bug-Catching Contest → Prizes.

Pokémon

Generation II

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
	G		S		C			10,12	50%	0%	0%
	G		S		C			10	0%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			10	5%	5%	0%
	G		S		C			10	30%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			10,12	50%	0%	0%
	G		S		C			10	0%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			10	5%	5%	0%
	G		S		C			10	30%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			10,12,14	20%	0%	0%
	G		S		C			12,14	0%	15%	0%
	G		S		C			13	10%	10%	0%
	G		S		C			12	30%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			12	30%	30%	0%
	G		S		C			10,12	0%	0%	10%
	G		S		C			12	0%	0%	30%
	G		S		C			10,12,14	0%	0%	100%
	G		S		C			13,15	0%	0%	40%
	G		S		C			14	20%	0%	0%
	G		S		C			14	0%	0%	20%
	G		S		C			11,13	0%	25%	0%
	G		S		C			14	0%	20%	0%
Bug-Catching Contest
	G		S		C			7-18	20%
	G		S		C			9-18	10%
	G		S		C			12-15	5%
	G		S		C			7-18	20%
	G		S		C			9-18	10%
	G		S		C			12-15	5%
	G		S		C			10-17	10%
	G		S		C			10-16	10%
	G		S		C			13-14	5%
	G		S		C			13-14	5%
Fishing
	G		S		C			40	100%
Note: The water is inaccessible without the use of a cheating device.
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Generation IV

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
	HG			SS				10, 12	50%	0%	0%
	HG			SS				10	0%	30%	0%
	HG			SS				10	30%	30%	0%
	HG			SS				10, 12	50%	0%	0%
	HG			SS				10	0%	30%	0%
	HG			SS				10	30%	30%	0%
	HG			SS				10, 12, 14	20%	0%	0%
	HG			SS				12, 14	0%	15%	0%
	HG			SS				10, 12, 14	0%	0%	100%
	HG			SS				10, 12	0%	25%	0%
Headbutt Group A
	HG			SS				10-12	20%
	HG			SS				10-12	50%
	HG			SS				10-12	30%
Headbutt Group B
	HG			SS				13-15	20%
	HG			SS				13-15	50%
	HG			SS				13-15	30%
	HG			SS				13-15	30%
Headbutt Five trees at top of the hill in the north-east section. Requires Rock Climb.
	HG			SS				18-20	65%
	HG			SS				18-20	30%
	HG			SS				21-25	5%
Special Pokémon
	HG			SS				10	20%
	HG			SS				12	20%
	HG			SS				10, 12	40%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Bug-Catching Contest (pre-National Pokédex)

Bug-Catching Contest (post-National Pokédex)

Trainers

Generation II

Generation IV

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  Morning (Pidgey)

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  Day (Sunkern)

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  Evening (Sunkern)

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  Night (Hoothoot)

Layout

In the anime

The National Park gate in the anime

National Park appeared in The Bug Stops Here, where Ash and his friends came by it just in time to see the Bug-Catching Contest starting. Ash and Casey, who also appeared at the site, decided to participate the contest. Casey ended up catching a Weedle that Ash was trying to catch, but eventually Ash caught himself a Beedrill. After dealing with Team Rocket's latest scheme, during which Casey's Chikorita evolved into a Bayleef, Ash was declared the winner of the contest, earning him a Sun Stone and allowing him to keep the Pokémon he had caught. Before the group parted ways with Casey, Ash decided to give Beedrill to Casey, knowing her love of yellow-and-black-striped Pokémon.

Pokémon

Caught Pokémon

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

In Smeargle Smudge, a bicycle race between Gold and Whitney was mentioned to pass through the National Park.

In the Chuang Yi translation, the National Park was referred to as "Nature Reserve".

Trivia

• School Kid Jack is the only Trainer here not to have his Pokémon's levels increase between Generations II and IV.

In other languages