Find your next green oasis.

A curated guide to the Netherlands’ urban green spaces — city parks, pocket gardens, forests and nature escapes in and around Dutch cities. Browse, filter, and save the ones you love.

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City parkAmsterdam

Vondelpark

Amsterdam's most-loved park: 47 hectares of winding ponds, lawns and an open-air theatre, a few minutes from the Museumkwartier.

City parkAmsterdam

Westerpark

A lively green strip wrapped around the Westergas culture complex — meadows, water and former gasworks turned bars and galleries.

City parkAmsterdam

Oosterpark

Amsterdam's first large public park (1891), an English-landscape oasis with curving ponds beside the Tropenmuseum.

ForestAmstelveen

Amsterdamse Bos

A vast man-made forest three times the size of Central Park, with a rowing course, goat farm and miles of cycle paths.

City parkRotterdam

Het Park

Rotterdam's elegant 19th-century park at the foot of the Euromast, with grand trees, ponds and river views.

ForestRotterdam

Kralingse Bos

A forest around a large lake on Rotterdam's east side, with historic windmills and a beach-like shore.

Pocket gardenRotterdam

Dakpark

One of Europe's largest rooftop parks — a 1 km green roof over a shopping strip, with a community garden and lawns.

City parkDen Haag

Zuiderpark

A spacious people's park in The Hague with sports fields, a rose garden and a big natural playground.

Nature parkDen Haag

Landgoed Clingendael

A historic country estate famous for its Japanese garden — open only a few weeks a year — set in rolling parkland.

City parkDen Haag

Westbroekpark

An English-landscape park near Scheveningen beach, renowned for one of the Netherlands' largest rose gardens.

City parkUtrecht

Wilhelminapark

A genteel 1898 park in Utrecht-Oost with a large pond, monumental trees and a popular pavilion café.

City parkUtrecht

Griftpark

A lively all-ages park near the centre of Utrecht with a skate bowl, petting zoo and climbing tower.

Nature parkUtrecht

Máximapark

A huge modern park in Leidsche Rijn with a 6 km cycle loop, a walled 'Vlinderhof' garden and big open skies.

City parkGroningen

Noorderplantsoen

Groningen's beloved former fortification turned romantic park, packed with students whenever the sun is out.

City parkGroningen

Stadspark

A large green lung southwest of Groningen with woods, water, a rose garden and a former race track.

ForestHaarlem

Haarlemmerhout

The oldest public forest park in the Netherlands (1583), a stately woodland of beech and oak south of Haarlem's centre.

City parkNijmegen

Kronenburgerpark

A romantic park built around a medieval city wall and powder tower, with a small waterfall and deer.

City parkNijmegen

Goffertpark

Nijmegen's big 1930s park with a natural amphitheatre, open-air stage and a small mountain ('De Goffertberg').

City parkEindhoven

Stadswandelpark

An elegant villa-park in Eindhoven dotted with sculptures along a winding water course.

Nature parkEindhoven

Genneper Parken

A green zone on Eindhoven's south edge with a watermill, open-air museum and the Genneper Hoeve farm.

City parkBreda

Valkenberg

Breda's central park, once the count's hunting ground, now a leafy green between the castle and the station.

City parkTilburg

Leijpark

Tilburg's largest park, threaded by the Leij stream with broad lawns, water and a wellness garden.

City parkMaastricht

Stadspark Maastricht

A green ribbon along Maastricht's old ramparts and the Jeker river, linking the centre to the city walls.

ForestLeiden

Leidse Hout

A 1930s woodland park on Leiden's north edge with stately lanes, a children's farm and an open-air theatre.

Nature parkArnhem

Park Sonsbeek

Arnhem's romantic estate park of rolling hills, springs and waterfalls around a white country house — the city's green showpiece.

City parkAmsterdam

Sarphatipark

A leafy pocket park in the heart of De Pijp, with ponds, a monument to Samuel Sarphati and lawns full of locals.

City parkAmsterdam

Rembrandtpark

A spacious west-side park with water, a petting farm and big lawns, bordering the Kinkerbuurt and the A10 ring.

City parkUtrecht

Julianapark

A friendly neighbourhood park in Utrecht-Noord with a rose garden, wading pool and a much-loved tea pavilion.

City parkEnschede

Volkspark

The Netherlands' first people's park (1872), a green Enschede classic with sculptures, a bandstand and old trees.

City parkTilburg

Spoorpark

A modern citizen-built park (2019) on former railway land, with a lake, a 30-metre tower and an event lawn.

Nature parkGelderland

De Veluwe

The largest lowland nature area in North-West Europe: a vast mosaic of heath, drift sand, forest and fens across the heart of Gelderland, roamed by red deer and wild boar.

Nature parkGelderland

Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe

A 54 km² national park of heath, drift sand and pine forest with free white bikes, the Kröller-Müller Museum (Van Goghs) and the St Hubertus hunting lodge. Paid entry.

Nature parkNoord-Holland

Het Twiske

A green-blue recreation area of lakes, reed and meadow just north of Amsterdam, with swimming beaches, birdlife and quiet paddling — a favourite car-free escape.

Nature parkGroningen

Nationaal Park Lauwersmeer

A former sea arm turned freshwater wilderness on the Groningen–Friesland border — vast reed, grazing Konik horses, huge bird numbers and one of the darkest night skies in the Netherlands.

Nature parkNoord-Brabant

Nationaal Park De Biesbosch

One of Europe's last freshwater tidal areas: a maze of creeks, willow forest and reed where beavers and sea eagles live, best explored by canoe or whisper-boat.

Nature parkFlevoland

Oostvaardersplassen

A world-famous 'new wilderness' reclaimed from the sea in Flevoland: marsh, grassland and huge herds of Konik horses, Heck cattle and red deer, with spoonbills and sea eagles.

Nature parkDrenthe

Nationaal Park Dwingelderveld

The largest wet heathland in Western Europe, in Drenthe: purple heath, dozens of fens, juniper and grazing sheep — silent, dark and full of birds.

Nature parkNoord-Holland

Schoorlse Duinen

The highest and widest dunes in the Netherlands, near Schoorl: pine and birch woods over rolling sand, with the famous Klimduin and long beach walks.

Nature parkUtrecht

Nationaal Park Utrechtse Heuvelrug

A forested ice-age ridge running through Utrecht: beech and pine woods, heath, country estates and burial mounds, laced with cycling and walking trails.

Nature parkNoord-Holland

Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland

Coastal dunes between Haarlem and the sea, grazed by wild European bison and Highland cattle, with old estates, oak woods and a broad quiet beach.

Nature parkOverijssel

Nationaal Park Weerribben-Wieden

The largest fen landscape in North-West Europe, in Overijssel: reed beds, peat channels and floating meadows shaped by centuries of reed-cutting, alive with otters and black terns.

Nature parkOverijssel

Nationaal Park Sallandse Heuvelrug

A heather-clad ridge in Salland, Overijssel — one of the last homes of the black grouse in the Netherlands, with wide purple heath, forest and long views.

Nature parkLimburg

Nationaal Park De Groote Peel

A raised peat bog on the Limburg–Brabant border: pools, birch scrub and reed that draw thousands of cranes and geese — and some of the darkest, quietest skies in the south.

Nature parkLimburg

Nationaal Park De Maasduinen

The longest river-dune belt in the Netherlands, along the Maas in northern Limburg: sand, heath, fens and pine, with the Reindersmeer lake at its heart.

Nature parkDrenthe

Nationaal Park Drents-Friese Wold

One of the largest forest-and-heath areas in the Netherlands, on the Drenthe–Friesland border, with the drifting Aekingerzand ('Dutch Sahara'), streams and grazed heath.

Nature parkFriesland

Nationaal Park De Alde Feanen

A Frisian fen national park of lakes, reed and wet forest between Leeuwarden and Drachten — a paradise for boaters, otters and marsh birds.

Nature parkTexel

Nationaal Park Duinen van Texel

The dune national park of the island of Texel: salt marsh, heath, woods and the famous De Slufter where the sea floods in — one of the richest bird areas in the country.

Nature parkNoord-Holland

Naardermeer

The oldest nature reserve in the Netherlands (protected since 1906): a lake, reed and swamp forest near Amsterdam with a famous cormorant and heron colony, reached by boat.

Nature parkNoord-Holland

Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen

A vast dune reserve south of Zandvoort that still filters Amsterdam's drinking water: canals, hundreds of tame fallow deer and a huge web of walking paths (no bikes or dogs).

Nature parkFlevoland

Nationaal Park Nieuw Land

The newest and one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands, on reclaimed Flevoland land: the Oostvaardersplassen, Lepelaarplassen and the Marker Wadden bird islands.

Nature parkLimburg

Nationaal Park De Meinweg

A rare terraced landscape in central Limburg near the German border: valleys, streams, heath and pine, and the only place in the Netherlands where the adder and smooth snake still thrive.

Nature parkNoord-Brabant

Nationaal Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen

One of the largest drifting-sand areas in Western Europe, the 'Brabant Sahara' between Tilburg and Waalwijk: open sand, oak and pine woods and heath, great for walking and mountain biking.