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Chongqing News

It’s the perfect time to have fun in those beautiful parks in Chongqing!

2022-10-08 09:58:55

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- The pleasantly cool weather in autumn has encouraged an increasingly number of citizens to take part in outdoor activities. It’s the perfect time to go for a trip with your friends or family in a park. This time we will recommend you several less popular but extremely beautiful parks that feature quiet environments, gorgeous scenery, and easy transport, which can be visited anytime.

Jinhaiwan Park

Founded along the Jialing River, Jinhaiwan Park complements the natural environment consisting of river rocks, banks and sands. Surrounded by greenery, the park boasts fresh air and pleasant scenery.

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Jinhaiwan Park is also known as “Kenting of Chongqing”, because its landmark lighthouse blends in well with the river view and form a lovely scene that makes visitors feel like traveling on an island. You can stand on the huge stone, look over the river in a breeze, and take fantastic pictures of the river view. You can also spend a day having a picnic and enjoying your moments of solitude here.

Address: beside Jiangyucheng Residential Area, Dazhulin, Yubei District

Transportation: take Bus No.643, get off at Tianshan Avenue (West) Station, and then take a 6-minute walk

OCT Sports Park

OCT Sports Park is located along the Jialing River in Liangjiang New Area and next to the Happy Valley. Equipped with a wide range of leisure facilities, the park is designed for the purpose of satisfying citizens’ needs of leisure activities. For example, citizens can ride on the bicycle path around the lushly wooded mountain that features gentle slopes and fresh air containing much oxygen. They can take a break and do exercise while having fun in the park.

A park for children is also available inside the park, where there is a large sandpit, a jungle gym, a swing, and the slide that we loved as a child ... all these facilities offer children endless fun!

Address: No. 651, Jinshan Avenue, Yubei District

Transportation: take Bus No.857, get off at Huangmao Industrial Park Station, and then take a walk of 1.1km

Bamboo Creek Wetland Park

With gorges, riverbanks and wetlands formed by natural rivers, lush vegetation and seas of flowers for all seasons, and etc., Bamboo Creek Wetland Park offers an eco-friendly environment.

There are wetlands with steep slopes and flower fields in the second phase of Bamboo Creek Wetland Park landscape project. Walking along the Bamboo Creek, you will see a Panda Children’s Playground, Fengwu Flower Bridge, Water Maze, etc. As a bridge for viewing seas of flowers, Fengwu Flower Bridge winds its way along Bamboo Creek, with a sea of flowers planted below the bridge. When walking on the bridge, you can appreciate the high mountains in the distance, clean rivers nearby, lush bamboo forests and the flowers growing in the breeze beneath your feet.

Address: about 100 meters southwest of the intersection of Baiyankou Bridge and Zhuxi East Road in Beibei District

Transportation: get off at Liujiayuanzi on the International Expo Branch Line of CRT Line 6, transfer to Bus No.970 or 955, and then get off at Luopanshan

Siyuan Park in Shuitu High-tech Park, Beibei, Chongqing

Siyuan Park, a comprehensive urban park located in the southeast corner of the intersection of Yuefu Avenue and Fangzheng Avenue in Shuitu High-tech Park, covers an area of about 383.5 acres, with a landscape design area of 255,690 square meters. From north to south, the park is divided into nine functional areas, including image area at the entrance, the central area for activities, children’s playground, recreation area, sightseeing area, central landscape area, experiential wetland area, and the area for outdoor activities. The park makes clever use of the spaces and plants “plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums” (known as “four men of integrity among flowers” in China) between the pavilions. There are also carvings of the well-known stories and phrases in the park to build an elegant cultural environment.

The park is well-equipped with leisure facilities for both young and old, such as colorful footpath, lotus ponds, sculpted railings, illuminated basketball courts, tennis courts, children's playgrounds, and the viewing platform on a hilltop.

Address: southeast corner of the intersection of Yuefu Avenue and Fangzheng Avenue in Shuitu High-tech Park, Beibei District, Chongqing

Transportation: take International Expo Branch Line of CRT Line 6, get off at Liujiayuanzi, leave from the Exit 1A, and take a walk of 2.1 km (Translated by Cai Xinyu, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei