We have our share of those in NYC too, but thankfully we kicked the cars out of Central Park and it's now [one of the best bike rides in the world](https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/s/cCyxqrEd5w)
grant park actually sucks because of cars. its impossible to escape the sound of cars anywhere and just to get to another part of the park you have to cross multiple highways.
demolish lake shore drive now
Our three major parks (Grant, Lincoln, and Jackson) can be roughly paralleled to Central, Battery, and Prospect in NYC, but we jumbled up the sizes, layouts and locations.
You need to take a ferry to get there, though. I've lived here for 7 years but have only been to Toronto Island once.
High Park is accessible from 2-3 subway stops and by streetcar.
That's true but I think a big part of Central Park is the look of the natural world riding right up beside sky scrapers and the Harbourfront from The Islands scratches that itch for me, while providing a vast array of car free amenities and attractions
I've lived in Toronto 12 years, and I go to High Park about as often as I go to The Islands
I'd still go with High Park, it's way more accessible than the Islands are and has a good blend of naturalised areas, recreation, lawns, and manicured gardens.
I mean in terms of a Victorian-era big park surrounded by the city like Central Park then it’s High Park, but in terms of unique major destination of public space then probably Toronto Islands Park
I guess biking for me is just not really important but I see your point and concede. I thought Rittenhouse from a vibe and look given how it’s equally hemmed in by the city and constantly buzzing with activity by residents and visitors alike from condos and local businesses. I always did like Fairmount when I was living out there especially night cruising Kelly.
Central Park is 4.75 Rittenhouse squares wide and 23.4 Rittenhouse squares tall. If Central Park were overlaid on Rittenhouse square and matched the grid, it would extend to Juniper St going east and Diamond st going north. It’s much more comparable in size to Fairmount park. We just need a subway or something over that way.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_de_San_Francisco_%28Oviedo%29?wprov=sfla1
It is the largest central park of any city below 1m in Spain
It is truly as central as it can be
DC has Rock Creek Park which seems pretty analogous.
For Albuquerque, I guess it's Tiguex (Tee-wesh) Park, which isn't super big but it has great facilities and it's centrally located—it's always busy on weekends and protests are frequently held there.
Forest Park, Portland, Oregon.
Not really centrally located like Central park, but it's really the only park in the city on the same scale as central park and it is still pretty easy to access from downtown or northwest portland.
And is happily connected to Washington Park (Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, Arboretum, Oregon Zoo, Vietnam memorial, Holocaust memorial, all surrounded by hiking trails) as well :)
It blows Central Park of out the water in my opinion! I lived in STL my whole life and there’s still parts of the park I haven’t been to. It’s huge, has so many amenities and is safe enough to walk around at 2am, sloshed out of your mind.
I also wanna give a shout out to Tower Grove Park, another beautiful park south of FP, that has some of the most beautiful examples of pavilions in the world.
Forest Park is amazing but Tower Grove is just a perfect urban park. Integrated so well into the surrounding neighborhoods. Such good activity and vibes. Would be many cites best park
The roads are definitely wider than I’d like and the park could do without the golf course, but this is a bit flippant—it’s incredibly friendly for walking and biking with lots of quiet and accessible trails, it’s larger than Central Park while still being adjacent to dense neighborhoods, and it has three free top-notch museums in addition to the free zoo (not sure why the zoo is bad aside from the surface lot). It’s nowhere near as car-oriented as Balboa Park, but unfortunately St Louis is pretty car-dependent so the surrounding areas (and adjacent interstate) limit connectivity to a certain extent. But no one who’s ever been would call it a collection of small parks, it feels very cohesive.
Piedmont Park for Atlanta, also an Olmstead design.
Boston has the Boston Common
Seattle has Seattle center although that’s not very parkish
Savannah GA has Forsyth Park
San Fran has Golden Gate Park
That was in the 80s and it was never a serious bid to revitalize Seattle Center. The Seattle Commons plan was in the mid-late 90s, put forward to the voters, and ultimately it failed. What ensued was spending public money on sports stadiums while allowing Paul Allen’s group to build up South Lake Union.
Something like Discovery Park might compare in term of size but it’s more of an urban forests than anything else. The closest I can think of is Green Lake + Woodland Park combo having the zoo nearby and the lake, but I agree that it is nowhere near close to what Central Park is
Balboa park is really nice, I especially like morely fields. I wish that they would get rid of the 163 and also build ped/bike bridges to connect parts like the Florida canyon. Could be a lot better of a park if they got rid of all the cars and parking lots
Came here to add bp which is actually larger than central park, one of the largest urban parks in the US, and has the world famous san diego zoo plus several museums, theaters, etc
my entire city is kind of built around a forest ([Karlsruhe, Germany](https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0367009,8.4331932,17385m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu))
[Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA.](https://www.lakemerritt.org/)
It is in downtown. And adjacent to a few different types of neighborhoods. There is a good amount of green space. A 3.5 mile trail (great to train for a 5k). A bird sanctuary. Gondola rides. And a kids attraction that inspired Disneyland.
Houston it would be [Hermann](https://www.hermannpark.org/media/uploads/pages/.thumbnails/reflection_pool_aerial-1000x0.jpg), [Memorial](https://res.cloudinary.com/culturemap-com/image/upload/ar_4:3,c_fill,g_faces:center,w_1200/v1596222660/photos/314467_original.jpg), and [Buffalo Bayou](https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/5c75a88556b41510923be827/master/pass/GettyImages-735892913.jpg) parks. Honorable mention would be [Discovery Green](https://secrethouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.31.42-AM.png). But if I had to choose THE park it be Hermann.
if i had to say one for london i suppose it’d be hyde park, but honestly regent’s park, green park, hyde park and st.james park all together function as londons main central parklands. the interconnected strip with hyde, green, and st.james parks could also be said to function like one big central park for the west end of the
The [Grand Rounds](https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/byrn2z/grand-rounds.pdf). Every major park is linked by a single unbroken (In a U layout) network of of trails from [Down Town](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.980847,-93.2532244,2a,75y,246.26h,99.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-5ZFP09RiNuM9jDPYZN6qQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu) to the [Mississippi](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9682939,-93.2341483,3a,43y,299.39h,89.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTAYJI5ays_9S1zTuuYLUXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu), [Minnehaha park](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.915725,-93.2104982,2a,60y,215.6h,78.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syqAAs0QC2xbxpBwuoWMCug!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu), [Minnehaha creek](https://www.deviantart.com/nic0nico/art/New-Trails-852240789), [Chain of Lakes](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9490786,-93.3072241,2a,90y,275.76h,90.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s42JVH6nfZnGENXIvZ3DbdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0&entry=ttu), and [Theodore worth](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9909111,-93.3253301,3a,60y,52.07h,94.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXIeSm8PKwZFQhjIiEsPZ_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu) park (300+ year old forest that has never been logged).
Yes it's not a big or central park but one continues green parkway.
I was more referring the grandness of central park then the name.
Like Minneahaha has that grandness but not central and honestly Grand Rounds is better in my opinion.
Rock Creek Park - Washington, DC. Incredibly nice urban park. Interestingly enough it's the third National Park ever established, after Yellowstone and Mackinac.
Chicago has Lincoln Park and Millennium Park as Central Park equivalent. Bonus points for Humboldt Park being the Chicago equivalent of Prospect Park.
https://images.app.goo.gl/37imGdgutciWTzt76
Providence has Roger Williams Park, which is Central Park-ish in form, but not location. It's at the southern edge of the city, and in fact should really be in the suburban city of Cranston, with Cranston surrounding it to its east, west and south.
Not my city now but for Cincinnati, Smale and the other riverfront parks in are the largest, most centrally located to the core but in terms of size, history, and design it would be Eden Park. Washington Park gets an honorable mention due to its history and location; it's just not big enough to be a true central park.
I have two suggestions for Phoenix:
1.) [Steele Indian School Park](https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/parks/alphabetical/s-parks/steele-indian-school) (and yes, that is the name.) This one is more of a "central park" for the city, though Phoenix has several nice parks distributed throughout - Encanto Park being an example.
2.) [Camelback Mountain.](https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/trails/locations/camelback-mountain) It's a popular hiking attraction in the area, since it's within the city. I think it's too crowded, so I don't go there. There's a Yogi Berra line there somewhere...
The Jewel of San Diego is Balboa Park. What many people do not know is that a lot of the architecture making up the museums and the Prado was built in a short amount of time in preparation for the Panama-California Expo in 1915. It was just made to look and feel older. I love that park. Sadly, the park happens to be cut in half by a freeway...
in Dallas it depends on the comparison. For an active green space to escape urban life? That's White Rock Lake and the trails and park around it.
For being a center of urban connection? Klyde Warren Park in downtown stitched two whole neighborhoods together when it covered the highway. The surrounding area is so much better for it.
I get to Central Park as often as I can, and many times traverse the park going from east to west and vice versa, when going to and from clients. I love it. 🥰
Shanghai has People's Square and the neighbouring People's Park.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s\_Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Square)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s\_Park\_(Shanghai)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Park_(Shanghai))
Nashville has Centennial Park. A fraction of the size of Central Park (132 vs 843 acres) but for this size city (pop about 1/10 of NYC), it is reasonably proportional.
Portland: Waterfront Park
Denver: Cheesman is the most urban
Taipei: Daan Forest Park (Scope it out)
Saigon: Vin Homes Central Park (Privately owned I believe)
Seoul: The Changchun is the most urban, but it's not that green. Anyone that's been to Seoul will also tell you that Hongdae Park is the center of the youth culture though.
For London - Hyde Park, Regents Park and Hampstead Heath?
For Singapore - Botanic Gardens
For Auckland - Cornwall Park, spring time has the lamb and calves being born which is always a spectacle
The local Central Park is different [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central\_Park\_(shopping\_complex)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_(shopping_complex))
Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, is one of the largest urban, municipal parks in the United States, covering 735 acres (297 ha) of land overlooking the Connecticut River. Within the park is a zoo, walking and hiking trails, promenades, playgrounds, lakes and ponds, a formal rose garden, the Barney Carriage House, sculptures, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, tennis courts, bocce courts, lawn bowling fields, and a hockey arena, Cyr Arena. During the winter holiday season, the park features a lighting display, Bright Nights, a 2.6-mile trail of large, intricate, animated lighting displays.
I would say city park. Cheesman is great, definitely my favorite park to hang out in but not really Central Park-y. City park has all the extra amenities like Central Park (lake, museum, zoo, that pavilion thing, various sports fields, plus it’s just massive).
Ok, I get where you’re coming from. Aesthetics with the tall buildings is cheesman but I would say amenities is city park. I guess we don’t really have an equivalent
I think Cheesman is more on the money because it's way more urban and used by younger Cap Hill folks to chill. City Park is more of a suburban soccer mom type of park like Wash Park.
I think we just interpret Central Park in different ways. You seem to think of it as a cool urban hangout spot. I see it as more of a massive park where you can go to the zoo, museum, gardens, concert, whatever.
Central Park does both of those things for New York, but we don’t really have a park that serves both purposes in Denver. Personally, I think city park fills a more unique niche which is why I lean that way but I definitely understand the cheesman argument.
Uhh, the chief designers of Central Park (Calvin Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted) were doing their thing almost a century before Robert Moses' peak (post-Civil War vs. post-WWII).
While the City of New York [did displace mostly Black communities to help create the park](https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/seneca-village), I'm not sure Olmsted & Vaux had any say in that matter, as the location of the park had already been decided.
Olmsted was a noted abolitionist, and was also a leading figure of the broader 19th century Parks Movement, which was very flawed, of course, but fundamentally democratic and progressive in its intentions.
As for Robert Moses... YEAH, he was a total ass! There are the rumours he deliberately built bridges to be too low for buses along expressways to the beaches/resort areas of Long Island so as to prevent people of colour from getting to them. And his broader expressway/bridges plans certainly did not give a shit about the horrendous and grossly disproportionate impacts they'd have of communities of colour!
I would say The Domain for Melbourne but maybe Albert Park too.
https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/parks-open-spaces/major-parks-gardens/Pages/domain-parklands.aspx
https://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/melbourne/see-and-do/nature-and-wildlife/national-parks-and-reserves/albert-park
there are a lot of parks in suburban areas, it's not like you need a city for this stuff. i've seen people buy homes on lakes for the water rights and just back their boat into the lake
most new yorkers don't live in manhattan and even for the ones that do most don't live within walking distance of CP. only the rich live close to the park
Several massive parking lots.
We have our share of those in NYC too, but thankfully we kicked the cars out of Central Park and it's now [one of the best bike rides in the world](https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/s/cCyxqrEd5w)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant\_Park\_(Chicago)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Park_(Chicago))
It’s a gem. Just gotta remove one or two of the 4 lane stroads that go through it.
grant park actually sucks because of cars. its impossible to escape the sound of cars anywhere and just to get to another part of the park you have to cross multiple highways. demolish lake shore drive now
Our three major parks (Grant, Lincoln, and Jackson) can be roughly paralleled to Central, Battery, and Prospect in NYC, but we jumbled up the sizes, layouts and locations.
Stanley Park. Vancouver BC.
Detroits would be belle isle
honestly Palmer Park is a better park than belle isle and feels more like it’s connected to the city than belle isle.
[Mont Royal](https://www.google.com/maps/search/parc+mont+royal/@45.5054157,-73.6125986,6374m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu) park in Montréal
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount\_Royal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Royal) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver\_Lake\_(Montreal)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Lake_(Montreal))
A lot of people say High Park is Toronto's Central Park but I say it's The Toronto Islands Park
You need to take a ferry to get there, though. I've lived here for 7 years but have only been to Toronto Island once. High Park is accessible from 2-3 subway stops and by streetcar.
That's true but I think a big part of Central Park is the look of the natural world riding right up beside sky scrapers and the Harbourfront from The Islands scratches that itch for me, while providing a vast array of car free amenities and attractions I've lived in Toronto 12 years, and I go to High Park about as often as I go to The Islands
I'd still go with High Park, it's way more accessible than the Islands are and has a good blend of naturalised areas, recreation, lawns, and manicured gardens.
I mean in terms of a Victorian-era big park surrounded by the city like Central Park then it’s High Park, but in terms of unique major destination of public space then probably Toronto Islands Park
I’d say it’s trinity bellwoods. The islands and high park aren’t central enough.
Trinity bellwoods is beautiful and I love it, but it’s small compared to something like Central Park. It really only services its neighbourhood
I don't smoke enough weed or play hacky sack well enough for Trinity Bellwoods :(
Hey, me too, but cheer up man, we'll always have the drum circles.
See you at riverdale:)
On weekends in the spring and summer, parts of Fairmount Park are similar in that MLK drive is closed to car traffic at that time.
For Philadelphia I’d definitely think it be Rittenhouse square no? But I guess Fairmount contains actual museums and other amenities.
You can bike through Central Park, but you can't do that through Rittenhouse Square. The Square is also a single city block.
I guess biking for me is just not really important but I see your point and concede. I thought Rittenhouse from a vibe and look given how it’s equally hemmed in by the city and constantly buzzing with activity by residents and visitors alike from condos and local businesses. I always did like Fairmount when I was living out there especially night cruising Kelly.
Central Park is 4.75 Rittenhouse squares wide and 23.4 Rittenhouse squares tall. If Central Park were overlaid on Rittenhouse square and matched the grid, it would extend to Juniper St going east and Diamond st going north. It’s much more comparable in size to Fairmount park. We just need a subway or something over that way.
Fairmount Park is 2,052 acres.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_de_San_Francisco_%28Oviedo%29?wprov=sfla1 It is the largest central park of any city below 1m in Spain It is truly as central as it can be
DC has Rock Creek Park which seems pretty analogous. For Albuquerque, I guess it's Tiguex (Tee-wesh) Park, which isn't super big but it has great facilities and it's centrally located—it's always busy on weekends and protests are frequently held there.
Forest Park, Portland, Oregon. Not really centrally located like Central park, but it's really the only park in the city on the same scale as central park and it is still pretty easy to access from downtown or northwest portland.
And is happily connected to Washington Park (Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, Arboretum, Oregon Zoo, Vietnam memorial, Holocaust memorial, all surrounded by hiking trails) as well :)
golden gate park, bitches
St. Louis has Forest Park—it might be one of the only urban parks in the US that can compete with Central Park.
It blows Central Park of out the water in my opinion! I lived in STL my whole life and there’s still parts of the park I haven’t been to. It’s huge, has so many amenities and is safe enough to walk around at 2am, sloshed out of your mind. I also wanna give a shout out to Tower Grove Park, another beautiful park south of FP, that has some of the most beautiful examples of pavilions in the world.
Forest Park is amazing but Tower Grove is just a perfect urban park. Integrated so well into the surrounding neighborhoods. Such good activity and vibes. Would be many cites best park
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The roads are definitely wider than I’d like and the park could do without the golf course, but this is a bit flippant—it’s incredibly friendly for walking and biking with lots of quiet and accessible trails, it’s larger than Central Park while still being adjacent to dense neighborhoods, and it has three free top-notch museums in addition to the free zoo (not sure why the zoo is bad aside from the surface lot). It’s nowhere near as car-oriented as Balboa Park, but unfortunately St Louis is pretty car-dependent so the surrounding areas (and adjacent interstate) limit connectivity to a certain extent. But no one who’s ever been would call it a collection of small parks, it feels very cohesive.
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No its all good. It’s true and I hear what you’re saying, large urban parks are meant to be our respite from the overbuilt environment.
San Francico's Golden Gate Park and Presidio blow central park out of the water
They’re both amazing parks and golden gate could compete but I don’t think it’s fair to say they blow it out of the water outright
The National Mall, though it should be the Arboretum.
Philadelphia has Fairmount Park
Piedmont Park for Atlanta, also an Olmstead design. Boston has the Boston Common Seattle has Seattle center although that’s not very parkish Savannah GA has Forsyth Park San Fran has Golden Gate Park
You could make a case for Kal Anderson Park in Seattle as well
Not nearly big enough in my opinion. Seattle just doesn’t have a good analog to Central Park
Seattle Commons could’ve been it, but voters shot it down in the mid 90s and now it’s the South Lake Union tech hub, dominated by Amazon.
Isn’t that right around the time when Disney was considering buying Seattle center?
That was in the 80s and it was never a serious bid to revitalize Seattle Center. The Seattle Commons plan was in the mid-late 90s, put forward to the voters, and ultimately it failed. What ensued was spending public money on sports stadiums while allowing Paul Allen’s group to build up South Lake Union.
Something like Discovery Park might compare in term of size but it’s more of an urban forests than anything else. The closest I can think of is Green Lake + Woodland Park combo having the zoo nearby and the lake, but I agree that it is nowhere near close to what Central Park is
Balboa Park in San Diego.
Balboa park is really nice, I especially like morely fields. I wish that they would get rid of the 163 and also build ped/bike bridges to connect parts like the Florida canyon. Could be a lot better of a park if they got rid of all the cars and parking lots
Came here to add bp which is actually larger than central park, one of the largest urban parks in the US, and has the world famous san diego zoo plus several museums, theaters, etc
Stuttgart, germany: Schlossgarten. But partly destroyed by maniacs in the 70s
What did they do?
Demolish the Renaissance garden to rebuild in the 70s style with a lot of concrete
Chapultepec Park
High Park in Toronto. We're trying to get the cars out of it.
my entire city is kind of built around a forest ([Karlsruhe, Germany](https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0367009,8.4331932,17385m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu))
[Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA.](https://www.lakemerritt.org/) It is in downtown. And adjacent to a few different types of neighborhoods. There is a good amount of green space. A 3.5 mile trail (great to train for a 5k). A bird sanctuary. Gondola rides. And a kids attraction that inspired Disneyland.
Houston it would be [Hermann](https://www.hermannpark.org/media/uploads/pages/.thumbnails/reflection_pool_aerial-1000x0.jpg), [Memorial](https://res.cloudinary.com/culturemap-com/image/upload/ar_4:3,c_fill,g_faces:center,w_1200/v1596222660/photos/314467_original.jpg), and [Buffalo Bayou](https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/5c75a88556b41510923be827/master/pass/GettyImages-735892913.jpg) parks. Honorable mention would be [Discovery Green](https://secrethouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-9.31.42-AM.png). But if I had to choose THE park it be Hermann.
Prince's Island Park (and the Riverwalk in general) in Calgary
[Balboa park!](https://balboapark.org/)
if i had to say one for london i suppose it’d be hyde park, but honestly regent’s park, green park, hyde park and st.james park all together function as londons main central parklands. the interconnected strip with hyde, green, and st.james parks could also be said to function like one big central park for the west end of the
Los Angeles, Griffith Park
Yep.
Austin's is Zilker Park/Barton Springs.
Sydney has the royal botanic garden
Prospect Park
Lake park in Milwaukee. Also designed by olmsted
I'm not sure Seattle has any one main park. Lots of smaller ones and lots of nature just outside the city.
The [Grand Rounds](https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/byrn2z/grand-rounds.pdf). Every major park is linked by a single unbroken (In a U layout) network of of trails from [Down Town](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.980847,-93.2532244,2a,75y,246.26h,99.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-5ZFP09RiNuM9jDPYZN6qQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu) to the [Mississippi](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9682939,-93.2341483,3a,43y,299.39h,89.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTAYJI5ays_9S1zTuuYLUXQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu), [Minnehaha park](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.915725,-93.2104982,2a,60y,215.6h,78.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syqAAs0QC2xbxpBwuoWMCug!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu), [Minnehaha creek](https://www.deviantart.com/nic0nico/art/New-Trails-852240789), [Chain of Lakes](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9490786,-93.3072241,2a,90y,275.76h,90.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s42JVH6nfZnGENXIvZ3DbdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0&entry=ttu), and [Theodore worth](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9909111,-93.3253301,3a,60y,52.07h,94.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXIeSm8PKwZFQhjIiEsPZ_g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu) park (300+ year old forest that has never been logged). Yes it's not a big or central park but one continues green parkway.
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I was more referring the grandness of central park then the name. Like Minneahaha has that grandness but not central and honestly Grand Rounds is better in my opinion.
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Please dont disrespect our Temple to Capitalism, ive gone ahead and reported you to the Department of Freedoms. Remain where you are citizen.
Haarlem, Netherlands, Haarlemmer Hout.
Railroad Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Park and Ruffner Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffner_Mountain_Nature_Preserve
Taipei has Da’An Park Boston has the Boston Common Providence has Burnside Park
Central Park, Plymouth, Devon, England
Rock Creek Park - Washington, DC. Incredibly nice urban park. Interestingly enough it's the third National Park ever established, after Yellowstone and Mackinac.
Chicago has Lincoln Park and Millennium Park as Central Park equivalent. Bonus points for Humboldt Park being the Chicago equivalent of Prospect Park. https://images.app.goo.gl/37imGdgutciWTzt76
The whole uninterrupted waterfront is basically a park. I’d added Grant Park as the bigger park that connects Millennium Park.
In Miami we have [Bayfront Park](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayfront_Park) but you have to walk across 6 lanes of traffic to get there 😭
Providence has Roger Williams Park, which is Central Park-ish in form, but not location. It's at the southern edge of the city, and in fact should really be in the suburban city of Cranston, with Cranston surrounding it to its east, west and south.
Marion Square baby
Minneapolis has dozens of neighborhood parks. Never more than a short walk for people
Not my city now but for Cincinnati, Smale and the other riverfront parks in are the largest, most centrally located to the core but in terms of size, history, and design it would be Eden Park. Washington Park gets an honorable mention due to its history and location; it's just not big enough to be a true central park.
I have two suggestions for Phoenix: 1.) [Steele Indian School Park](https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/parks/alphabetical/s-parks/steele-indian-school) (and yes, that is the name.) This one is more of a "central park" for the city, though Phoenix has several nice parks distributed throughout - Encanto Park being an example. 2.) [Camelback Mountain.](https://www.phoenix.gov/parks/trails/locations/camelback-mountain) It's a popular hiking attraction in the area, since it's within the city. I think it's too crowded, so I don't go there. There's a Yogi Berra line there somewhere...
The Jewel of San Diego is Balboa Park. What many people do not know is that a lot of the architecture making up the museums and the Prado was built in a short amount of time in preparation for the Panama-California Expo in 1915. It was just made to look and feel older. I love that park. Sadly, the park happens to be cut in half by a freeway...
Orlando has Lake Eola Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Eola_Park
in Dallas it depends on the comparison. For an active green space to escape urban life? That's White Rock Lake and the trails and park around it. For being a center of urban connection? Klyde Warren Park in downtown stitched two whole neighborhoods together when it covered the highway. The surrounding area is so much better for it.
I guess all lopez park, never been tho
I get to Central Park as often as I can, and many times traverse the park going from east to west and vice versa, when going to and from clients. I love it. 🥰
Zilker Park
Shanghai has People's Square and the neighbouring People's Park. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s\_Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Square) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s\_Park\_(Shanghai)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Park_(Shanghai))
Los Angeles has Elysian Park, that is about 15 minutes bus ride from downtown. In the heart of downtown there is also the Gloria Molina Grand Park
[The Public Gardens](https://maps.app.goo.gl/bicriJsNemWz68zw9)
Le parc du Mont-Royal in Montréal, Québec was also design by Holmstead who design Central Park.
Deering Oaks in Portland, Maine and the town mall (green) in Brunswick Maine.
Como Park in Saint Paul, MN: https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/como-regional-park
Schenley Park and Frick Park in Pittsburgh! Throw in Highland Park for good measure. 📐
Nashville has Centennial Park. A fraction of the size of Central Park (132 vs 843 acres) but for this size city (pop about 1/10 of NYC), it is reasonably proportional.
When I was growing up, my city was NYC so I guess the equivalent was Central Park. Where I live now, Honolulu does have Ala Moana Beach Park.
Portland: Waterfront Park Denver: Cheesman is the most urban Taipei: Daan Forest Park (Scope it out) Saigon: Vin Homes Central Park (Privately owned I believe) Seoul: The Changchun is the most urban, but it's not that green. Anyone that's been to Seoul will also tell you that Hongdae Park is the center of the youth culture though.
[Tiergarten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiergarten)
For London - Hyde Park, Regents Park and Hampstead Heath? For Singapore - Botanic Gardens For Auckland - Cornwall Park, spring time has the lamb and calves being born which is always a spectacle
Probably Hyde park? But London has so many great parks, regents, Greenwich, Richmond, my fave is clissold
Forest park- Springfield MA
Parque da paz (direct translation: 'Peace park') in Almada
Two, really. The meadows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meadows,_Edinburgh Holyrood Park: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyrood_Park
Golden Gate Park - bigger than Central Park
Lake Zürich. And the clean rivers from it in which you can bathe.
Dublin has phoenix park. London has Hyde park.
Boston common
The local Central Park is different [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central\_Park\_(shopping\_complex)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_(shopping_complex))
Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, is one of the largest urban, municipal parks in the United States, covering 735 acres (297 ha) of land overlooking the Connecticut River. Within the park is a zoo, walking and hiking trails, promenades, playgrounds, lakes and ponds, a formal rose garden, the Barney Carriage House, sculptures, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, tennis courts, bocce courts, lawn bowling fields, and a hockey arena, Cyr Arena. During the winter holiday season, the park features a lighting display, Bright Nights, a 2.6-mile trail of large, intricate, animated lighting displays.
STL has the BEST urban park in America - Forest Park
Denver has the Rocky Mountains. 🏔️🏔️🏔️
Wash Park in Denver
City Park as well
Definitely city park
The Rocky Mountains
the hollywood hills??? we suck at parks
Cheesman I guess. Denver here. The real answer is the parking crater next to the ballpark as it is pretty central and has no houses or businesses.
I would say city park. Cheesman is great, definitely my favorite park to hang out in but not really Central Park-y. City park has all the extra amenities like Central Park (lake, museum, zoo, that pavilion thing, various sports fields, plus it’s just massive).
It is surrounded by primarily single family homes/zoning on all 4 sides. More suburban than urban.
Ok, I get where you’re coming from. Aesthetics with the tall buildings is cheesman but I would say amenities is city park. I guess we don’t really have an equivalent
Maybe commons park?
I think Cheesman is more on the money because it's way more urban and used by younger Cap Hill folks to chill. City Park is more of a suburban soccer mom type of park like Wash Park.
I think we just interpret Central Park in different ways. You seem to think of it as a cool urban hangout spot. I see it as more of a massive park where you can go to the zoo, museum, gardens, concert, whatever. Central Park does both of those things for New York, but we don’t really have a park that serves both purposes in Denver. Personally, I think city park fills a more unique niche which is why I lean that way but I definitely understand the cheesman argument.
This is the way I lean also. I believe also that Central Park was an inspiration for City Park’s design back in the day.
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Uhh, the chief designers of Central Park (Calvin Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted) were doing their thing almost a century before Robert Moses' peak (post-Civil War vs. post-WWII). While the City of New York [did displace mostly Black communities to help create the park](https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/seneca-village), I'm not sure Olmsted & Vaux had any say in that matter, as the location of the park had already been decided. Olmsted was a noted abolitionist, and was also a leading figure of the broader 19th century Parks Movement, which was very flawed, of course, but fundamentally democratic and progressive in its intentions. As for Robert Moses... YEAH, he was a total ass! There are the rumours he deliberately built bridges to be too low for buses along expressways to the beaches/resort areas of Long Island so as to prevent people of colour from getting to them. And his broader expressway/bridges plans certainly did not give a shit about the horrendous and grossly disproportionate impacts they'd have of communities of colour!
I would say The Domain for Melbourne but maybe Albert Park too. https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/parks-open-spaces/major-parks-gardens/Pages/domain-parklands.aspx https://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/melbourne/see-and-do/nature-and-wildlife/national-parks-and-reserves/albert-park
there are a lot of parks in suburban areas, it's not like you need a city for this stuff. i've seen people buy homes on lakes for the water rights and just back their boat into the lake
What makes Central Park is it’s within walking distance for hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. No suburban park can make that claim.
Maybe no suburban park can, by lots European cities you're within walking distance of a large park basically wherever you are
most new yorkers don't live in manhattan and even for the ones that do most don't live within walking distance of CP. only the rich live close to the park
Harlem exists, though becoming a wealthier area. Certainly wasn't wealthy when the park was built