# Best Parks in Shanghai

Concession-era gardens, riverfront promenades and city green space. · community starter list

5 parks in Shanghai, including Century Park (Pudong, Shanghai). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, and the community's votes decide it from here.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [China](/china.md) / Shanghai
**Updated:** 2026-08-26 03:24:55

1. **[Century Park](/e/century-park---1579.md)** (park) — Shanghai's largest inner-ring park, 140 hectares of lawns, woods and a lake; free to enter since 2021, and open around the clock since its perimeter walls came down in 2024. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw4411/20240417/479731e035004c3e9a03dd6c5cfe3099.html, https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-Parks/20231220/489a4c048d594b1d9fec56e57214a284.html
2. **[Fuxing Park](/e/fuxing-park---1580.md)** (park) — A park laid out by the French in 1909 in the old French Concession, with a lake, fountains, covered pavilions and formal flowerbeds. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxing_Park, https://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw4411/20260622/98dbfc7640924743b9b8c477426dbbca.html
3. **[Zhongshan Park](/e/zhongshan-park---1581.md)** (park) — Once the southern half of a British trader's private garden, opened as Jessfield Park in 1914 and later renamed for Sun Yat-sen after the foreign concessions ended. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_11500495, https://www.shcn.gov.cn/english/col1129/20211216/1206902.html
4. **[Lu Xun Park](/e/lu-xun-park---1582.md)** (park) — Laid out in 1896 as a settlement-era sports ground, renamed for the writer Lu Xun in 1988; his Mao-inscribed tomb was moved into the park in 1956. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun_Park, https://www.shhk.gov.cn/zjhk/001003/001003002/20140902/68c26090-b308-490b-9021-4f027aad6055.html
5. **[Expo Culture Park](/e/expo-culture-park---1583.md)** (park) — A reclaimed steelworks and 2010 Expo site absorbing the old Houtan wetland park; its south section, with twin artificial peaks, opened fully in September 2024 and needs a climb reservation. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://whlyj.sh.gov.cn/gqfc/20240919/79429f2e8c124b6b97383e115e7e4982.html, https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%96%E5%8D%9A%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E5%85%AC%E5%9B%AD

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