Fairmount Park
Park · East Park ·
Vast urban park with scenic river views, trails, and playgrounds
Vast urban park with scenic river views, trails, and playgrounds
"Spanning more than 2,000 acres across both sides of the Schuylkill, Fairmount Park offers walking paths, gardens, miles of waterfront biking trails, and attractions within it like the Please Touch children’s museum, Boathouse Row, Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Smith Memorial Playground with its 100-year-old wooden slide." - Regan Stephens Regan Stephens Regan Stephens is an award-winning freelance writer living in Philadelphia. She covers travel, food, and culture for outlets like Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, People, and Fortune. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"With over 2,000 acres of land and 50 miles of paved trails, Fairmount Park is Philadelphia’s largest, and most popular, municipal park. Visitors experience the park’s natural beauty, which is made up of woods, meadows, and the Schuylkill River waterfront. When the weather cooperates, parkgoers flock to Fairmount to hike, cycle, ride horses, canoe, and fish. Fairmount is always busy, but the park is so vast that it never feels cramped. The park’s also full of man-made attractions, like a wildlife refuge and education center, public art, the Shofuso Japanese House, the Philadelphia Zoo, and the Smith Memorial Playground, which is perfect if you have kids who need to burn off energy." - MATADOR_NETWORK
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