10 cities with the biggest parks in the world

You forgot about Forest Park in Portland, Oregon! It is smack in the middle of Portland metro and 250,000 acres!

Great list!! I had an excellent siesta in Chapultepec Park between flights in Mexico I'd also recommend Englischer Garten in Munich

What about Edmonton: "Edmonton's river valley constitutes the longest stretch of connected urban parkland in North America" (Wikipedia)

Chapultepec Park is incredible! I live in Mexico City for part of the year, and I'd contend that in addition to its attractiveness as a green oasis, it's a wonderful place to see locals and experience a slice of their lives. Ted- really appreciate the international focus in this article.

I lived in Arizona for a year and I can't believe I missed South Mountain Park! Thanks for the info, this is definitely a note-to-self I'm keeping with me.

Loving the Vancouver mention. Take a walk in Stanley Park and it's like wandering into a Lord of the Rings movie…

How could you leave Griffith Park in Los Angeles off this list? It's 5 times the size of Central Park in NYC and a lot more diverse. From the park's website: "With over 4,210 acres of both natural chapparal-covered terrain and landscaped parkland and picnic areas, Griffith Park is the largest municipal park with urban wilderness area in the United States. Situated in the eastern Santa Monica Mountain range, the Park’s elevations range from 384 to 1,625 feet above see level. With an arid climate, the Park’s plant communities vary from coastal sage scrub, oak and walnut woodlands to riparian vegetation with trees in the Park’s deep canyons. The California native plants represented in Griffith Park include the California species of oak, walnut, lilac, mountain mahagony, sages, toyon, and sumac. Present, in small quantities, are the threatened species of manzanita and berberis."

The Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires, Argentina is a beautiful and impressive municiple park. I particularly remember the zen garden with bridges, Banzai's, and it's giant pond full of massive swarms of frenzied Koy…

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Wonderful list! Visiting the local parks is one of my favorite things to do when I find myself in a new city. I'm headed to Mexico City soon and can't wait to check out Chapultepec Park.

I think it is more like 5,000 acres. Close, though.

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Santiago's San Cristobal Hill Metropolitan Park, with 1785 acre park with tiered gardens is ranked among the top-five biggest urban parks in the world (in downtown). it’s a total scenic outdoors city, few frantic globalised metropolises have beaches and ski resorts by an hour driving distance. It’s also one of the safest capitals in The Americas, because I can still walk for fun by midnight, safely. Locally, It has a pleasant Mediterranean climate that brings great wine fields around and plenty of sun during 7 months a year (spring/summer/fall), with no need to spend on A/C for a family there. A MUST GO!

Link for Santiago de Chile's Metropolitan Park in the world's southernmost country capital. http://www.parquemet.cl

Nice list with some wonderful photos. No London parks on the list though, there are many beautiful parks here, people often use Hyde Park as the one to choose, but:

Richmond park: also a royal park, is the largest park in London, much larger than central park or hyde park (at 955 hectares – 2360 acres), with a notable deer population its a great place to run/walk/cycle or generally relax, especially in the summer.

Edmonton? Meh, the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system is mostly water. How about going south to some of the singularly big municipal parks, some of the biggest in the world… Calgary, Canada’s Fish Creek Park (13.5 square kilometers, ‘over three times the size of Vancouver’s Stanley Park’ ~ Wikipedia) and Nose Hill Park (12 square kilometers, all land with no large bodies of water).

helloo! what about Lazienki Park in Warsaw?

I can’t believe you would overlook Forest Park in Portland and put Central Park on this list. It’s 5,000 acres. The title of your article is “Ten Cities With The Biggest Parks In The World”, and therefore, is incorrect. The rest of the article loses validation.

Woh, harsh!

Is Forest Park in the city of Portland? Or is it just nearby? I think these parks are right in the cities. (I could be wrong through.)

Houston has more urban parks and green space than any other U.S. city, though wikipedia is not the most credible source. My fave is Buffalo Bayou park where I live, though it’s surprisingly not anywhere near as big as the other parks in the city.

Put Bidwell Park in Chico, California on the list. Having 3,670 acres, it is the third or fourth largest municipal park in the USA. Central Park in New York City has only 800 plus acres. Is Forest Park in Portland, Oregon a municipal park?

rocky mountain national park is bigger than central park

What about hyde park????

What about it?

Richmond Park in London is an enclosed urban park of 955 hectares – around 2400 acres. It is worth mentioning that Wimbledon Common is virtually contiguous with it (you only have to cross a single road to get from the one area to the other) and has 1140 acres. That makes around three and a half thousand acres available to the urban lover of green spaces. The only compromise is that there is the occasional ‘road’ (and carpark) for motorcars. The speed limit thereon is 20 mph.

Smack dab in the middle of the city of St. Louis is Forest Park. It is 1293 acres and 50% larger than Central Park in New York. It is home to the zoo, 36 holes of golf, the municipal opera, the Dwight Davis tennis center, and several museums. How did this not make it on the list?

Forest Park in Portand is NOT 250,000 acres. All of Multomah County is 466 square miles, which works out to ~298,000 acres.

It’s a great park, worthy of a mention, but it’s 5157 acres.

Thanks for that clarification, Mark.

Thank you! I was thinking I would have to write something like this, but you took care of it.

Not to belabor the point because San Francisco ranks second as America’s craziest city…you failed to mention (I’m sure it was just a lapse) Golden Gate Park, smack dab in the middle of the City. A wee bit larger than Central Park in New York…

San Francisco has a very vast amount of green space and parkland for a city, particularly given that it is a relatively small yet very densely populated city (the city itself, excluding the Bay Area conurbation). The legendary Golden Gate Park, as has been mentioned prior, and the Presidio, are the two main green areas. Then there are so many other smaller parks.

for more info about my last comment, take a look at this link and scroll down the postings:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-vs-city/842193-ranking-cities-most-parkland.html

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the world largest “central park” is the helsinki town central park. It streches over more than 11.000 meters(6,8miles) THROUGHOUT the finnish capital an is about 3000 hectares (300.000 acres )
Just for the record.

Simon Bolivar park in Bogota – Colombia it is much bigger than any one else

Please take under consideration the Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park in Bogotá, which has an extension of 988 acres (400 hectares), including a lake of 27 acres, public Library (360,000sq feet), open sky concerts square for up to 80,000 people, lots of specialized facilities for sports (passive and active), museum, botanical garden, etc. Please also remember that Bogotá is an 8 million inhabitants city. I don’t see why not to include this park in your list.

The park in Moscow i think b the best of all i love it
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Chicago’s Lincoln Park is bigger than Central Park and more well know those most of the parks on this list.

Central Park is nice and all, but it’s only only the 5th largest park IN NYC!
after:
Pelham Bay Park (Bronx) 2,765 acres
Greenbelt (Staten Island) 1,778 acres
Flushing Meadows (Queens) 1,255 acres
Van Courtlandt Park (Bronx) 1,146 acres

In total there are 1700 parks comprising 28,000 acres of parkland in NYC

Or even Sutton Park, Birmingham – which is bigger than Richmond Park (And over 3 times the size of Central Park, N.Y). Perhaps I misunderstood the title of the article – I thought it would list the 10 cities with the largest parks in the world…not sure what the article actually lists (10 favourite parks of the author? Who knows).

Central Park doesn’t deserve to be on this list! Balboa Park in San Diego has 1200 acres, Forest Park in St. Louis has 1293, and Los Angeles’ Griffith Park has 4210 acres! New Yorkers need to get out of their city and see some of the rest of the country, not to mention the world!

branch brook park in newark nj is another park that should get some mention among nice parks

You have missed out Fatima Jinnah Park in Islamabad, Pakistan

For any details about this park you can email me on my email address.

Santiago has so many parks. Must add the newest Parque Bicentario to this list… spectacular! http://maps.google.cl/maps/place?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=parque+bicentenario+santiago+chile&fb=1&gl=cl&hq=parque+bicentenario&hnear=0x9662c5410425af2f:0x8475d53c400f0931,Quilicura,+Santiago&cid=3292125467683459354

Whoa, I am surprised to see that Rouge Park in Toronto, Ontario wasn’t included in this list!  With 12,356 acres of parkland, a major river, several streams and creeks, the greatest bio-diversity in the biggest city in Canada, a campground, a sand beach and  a lookout point with a phenomenal view, this is the largest urban park in North America!  This park is one of the coolest places I’ve ever seen in a city, especially one as large as Toronto!

I guess they forgot Edmonton with the largest urban park system in the world.

Rock Creek Park in DC is close to 3000 acres…

Portland has almost 300 hundred parks, not to mention THE largest urban forest in the world, which is also a city park. Apparently this list should be: The 10 largest urban parks Theodore Scott has been to personally. Denver sucks ass by the way, its a big bowl of mile high smog.

Portland has almost 300 hundred parks, not to mention THE largest urban forest in the world, which is also a city park. Apparently this list should be: The 10 largest urban parks Theodore Scott has been to personally. Denver sucks ass by the way, its a big bowl of mile high smog.

Rockwood Park, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
2200 Acres.
Apparently smaller than Central Parks’ 843 Acres.
The author is an engineer?  I weep for my beloved profession.

Central Park is in fact not one of the biggest parks in the world. In  fact, it is tiny compared to Dublin’s Phoenix Park which is HUGE. In fact, I have been to all of these parks, and none come near Dublin’s Phoenix Park. It took me well over 7 hours to walk around the Phoenix Park.