Thread by @goparkslondon

🌳What a #NationalParkCity festival! 🙌🌈

🌹We've had fun listing London's fantastic #parks and all the activities going on in them. Check out those lists below and keep sharing your favourites. 🏊‍♀️

⛹️‍♂️Discover more on our Big Green London Map goparks.london/map 🥅

Best #London park for a swim this weekend?
🏊‍♂️Beautiful lidos & natural ponds for #wildswimming
#SerpentineLido
@LDNFieldsLido
@Brockwell_Lido
#RuislipLido
@Hampstead_Life
@BeckenhamPark

Learn to #BMX in your local park. Some great tracks at:

Haggerston Park
@HackneyBMX
Richmond Park
@FRPTweets
@LordshipRec
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
@noordinarypark
@BrockwellParkCP

London's parks are full of lakes and ponds for pedalos and rowing. Just a few of best:
@DulwichPark
@FriendsAllyPark
@VickyParkLondon
@grovelandspark
@FairlopWaters
@FinsParkFriends

It’s therapeutic, it’s free, it's fun and it keeps London green: it’s community #gardening. Some top #London parks for #volunteering:

@CulpeperGardens
@GardenBrockwell
@BridgeHousePond
@DulwichDVG
@deptfordfolk
@QueensWoodCafe

Get up close with nature. Great nature walks with 'park friends':
🍄Fungi forays @FriendsFoxelyWoods
🐜Mini-beast hunts, Friends of Selsdon Woods
🦇 Bat walks, Friends of Bushy and Home Parks
🦎Butterfly walks, @GrangewoodPark
🐝Bee keeping, Broomfield House

How do you keep #park fit? Here's some exercise inspiration
Gardening fit @TCVtweets
Tai Chi, @HackneyLFUG
Brazilian #dance, Lloyd Park @folpe17
Boxing #yoga, @PrioryParkN8
Bootcamp, Bessingby Park @OurParksUK

Schools out! London’s best playgrounds?
@FieldsHighbury
@clissoldpeople
@batterseapark
@HollandPark_LDN
#dianamemorial
#schoolsoutforsummer

Every activity under the ☀️ in London’s #parks. Have you tried:
🧗‍♂️bouldering at @FairlopWaters
kite flying @Rookery100
🚣‍♂️ at Springfield Park
🐴 rides at Oaks Park
🦋 butterfly walks @FOGPark?

Are these the best views in #London? All from its wonderful parks!
🌈@FriendsAllyPark
⛅@EWTBedfordsPark
🌈@InPrimroseHill
⛅Croham Hurst Woods
🌈@Greenwich_Park

London's best #skateparks?
@ClaphamCommon1
@meanwhilegdns
@VickyParkFriend
@VickyParkLondon
@PeckhamRyePark
@FriendsAllyPark
@clissoldpark

London's history revealed in its #parks. Have you been to:
@AveryHillPark Winter Garden
Markfield Park beam engine
Holland House @HollandPark_LDN
1st public time signal #GreenwichPark
@WMGallery, Lloyd Park
Wanstead Park's 18th century lakes
Military history @WoolwichFriends?

🌳 Did you know Penge is Celtic for ‘edge of wood’? 🌳

It was the Great North Wood and fragments remain at:
@FoBigginWood
@GrangewoodPark
Beaulieu Heights
@DulwichPark
@wildlondon_SHW

Every London park is unique .. some more than others. Have you seen the:
🚗model traffic village @LordshipRec
🦕dinosaurs @CrystalPalacePK
⛏️fossils at Lesnes Abbey Wood @_LACV_
🦚peacocks @HollandPark_LDN?

Fill a full day in a #London park. Our best #dayout parks:
🥪@BatterseaPark
🎒@CrystalPalacePK
📸@HollandPark_LDN
🥪@BrockwellFriend
🎒@ValMansion
📸@HandHSocHeath
🥪@aldenhampark

London's best parkruns?
🏃‍♂️The original @bushyparkrun
🏃‍♀️Hills @HHparkrun @hillyfdsparkrun
🏃‍♂️Fast @burgessparkrun
🏃‍♀️Views @AlPal_parkrun
🏃‍♂️Tough @lloydparkrun
🏃‍♀️Post-run café @bwparkrun

London's hidden parks & secret green spaces. #GoParksLondon's favourites:
🌼Ravenscourt Park
🌹@ChelsPhysicGdn
🍄#LittleheathWoods
🌺Stambourne Woods @WoodlandTrust
🌸@Rookery100
🌿@CulpeperGardens