Best places: Parks in (Old) Ottawa, Canada

Leafy city park offers striking river views, walking paths, seasonal events & gardens.

Celebrated park featuring impressive waterfalls & a dam, picnic areas, hiking trails & green space.

Easygoing riverfront park with paths, benches, clusters of shade trees & a seasonal splash pad.

👍👍 Conroy Pit is a lovely place for a walk in the woods with your pup. However, due to the extensive devastation by the May 21 derecho, all access to the wooded paths is blocked by fallen trees, hundreds of them. At the moment it is quite treacherous.

Tranquil park along Dows Lake, home to a famed spring Tulip Festival, offering paths & picnic areas.

Community park on 71.4 acres with a bandstand, sports fields, picnic tables, BBQ pits & trails.

Picturesque park featuring wildflowers, tranquil paths & wildlife in a butterfly meadow & frog pond.

👍👍 The Rockliffe belvedere is overlooking the Ottawa River and across the river is Pointe Gatineau.

Relaxed waterfront recreation destination with paths, sports fields & playground areas.

Riverfront park known for its collection of balanced rock sculptures by artist John Felice Ceprano.

Riverside park featuring soccer, tennis & baseball, plus a playground & an off-leash area for dogs.

This landscaped area with grass lawns & parking boasts views of the namesake pair of waterfalls.

Riverfront park offering beach swimming, playgrounds & a sled hill, plus family events & festivals.

City retreat with memorial monuments, sculptures & fountains, hosting festivals & national events.

👍👍 Lansdowne area is the place to be during spring or summer, to have a walk among mighty tulips and sprouting plants, with flowering trees and dining green grass. Kids can play and parents can enjoy quality time. Strongly recommended. Reviewed by Tarek Belghith, RZ Network Canada.

👍👍 Wonderful eco museum and sugar house ... we see squirrels ... Charming

Leafy community park offering a selection of mature trees & a grassy area for public recreation.

👍👍 This is a beautiful park! There's some play structures, slides swings in very good condition, There's also bathrooms. You can also enjoy the tenis court! And lastly but not least the park also has a beautiful pool where they do a very good maintenance, you definitely need to visit this park speciall...

Leafy riverside park with baseball diamonds, a basketball court & kids' playground.

Polished lakeside restaurant offering seasonally inspired dishes, including steak & seafood.