The processes associated with the spatial organization of recreation are investigated. There are major trends: an increase in the area and diversity of recreational complexes; increasing the degree of space transformation; strengthening the correlation of the structure of the complex with its specialization; increasing the versatility of recreational complexes and areas; unification of the structure of various types of residential-recreational complexes; reduction of the permeability of the complexes; reducing the role of landscape conditions in the placement of recreational complexes.
To study the spatial organization of recreation, the author have proposed a landscape-dynamic approach, adapted to study territorial recreational complexes and areas. Regulation of recreational impact and control of acceptable changes in natural territorial complexes due to recreation is one of the main tasks of recreational environmental management. The paper considers the approach to the analysis of the interaction of recreation and landscapes based on landscape-dynamic maps, as well as the method of mapping and monitoring recreational disturbance of the territory for managing recreational use of natural resources within natural protected areas. The experience of monitoring recreational disturbance of the test area (Shchuchye lake natural reserve, Kurortnyi district of Saint-Petersburg) for the period 2008 - 2019 years is analyzed. The decrease of recreational disturbance was revealed while the number of recreants increased: a decrease in the area of bare surface, accordingly, an increase in the area of secondary vegetation, a decrease in the number of fireplaces, felled and damaged trees, the appearance of a generation of trees transferred from undergrowth to forest stand. Positive dynamics is connected both with the restriction of car access to the coast of the lake, and with the arrangement of the territory with the special barbeque places, tables, benches, rubbish containers, toilets etc. An increase in the concentration of recreants in three plots of the coast and a reduction of impact on other plots accompanied by the processes of restoration of natural complexes (including the restoration of the stand) are observed. In areas of concentration of recreants located within sand hills, the beginning of erosion processes was recorded causing the formation of beaches (open sandy surfaces). Recommendations were made for making management decisions related to the development of recreation in the study area. It was determined that further attention should be focused on controlling the most attractive and vulnerable areas - complexes of sand hills near the lake coast and sandy plains in close proximity to car parking. Monitoring and mapping of recreational disturbance of the territory based on landscape-dynamic maps made possible to reveal the spatial differentiation of the processes, related with recreational use of landscape.