# Best Parks in Copenhagen

Copenhagen's green spaces, from royal gardens to waterfront lawns. · community starter list

7 parks in Copenhagen, including King's Garden (Indre By, Copenhagen). 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) / [Denmark](/denmark.md) / Copenhagen
**Updated:** 2026-08-26 10:47:34

1. **[King's Garden](/e/king-s-garden---1724.md)** (park) — Copenhagen's oldest park, laid out from 1606 by Christian IV around Rosenborg Castle as a pleasure and kitchen garden for the royal court. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://denkongeligesamling.dk/rosenborg-slot/slottets-historie/, https://trap.lex.dk/Rosenborg_Slot
2. **[Frederiksberg Have](/e/frederiksberg-have---1725.md)** (park) — Royal garden laid out around 1700 beside Frederiksberg Palace, redesigned from formal Baroque into an English-style romantic landscape garden between 1798 and 1804. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.fredninger.dk/fredning/frederiksberg-have-og-soendermarken/, https://trap.lex.dk/Frederiksberg_Have_og_S%C3%B8ndermarken_-_Slots-_og_Kulturstyrelsen
3. **[Fælledparken](/e/f-lledparken---1726.md)** (park) — Copenhagen's largest park, built 1908-1913 on former commons land by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel; still the traditional venue for the city's May Day rally. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/live/politik/2026-05-01-1, https://trap.lex.dk/F%C3%A6lledparken
4. **[Ørstedsparken](/e/rstedsparken---1727.md)** (park) — Romantic park laid out 1875-1879 by landscape architect H.A. Flindt on the site of Copenhagen's decommissioned 17th-century bastion fortifications; the old moat survives as a lake. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.kk.dk/dagsordener-og-referater/Indre%20By%20Lokaludvalg/m%C3%B8de-08042021/referat/punkt-16, https://trap.lex.dk/Bef%C3%A6stning,_%C3%98rstedsparken
5. **[Superkilen](/e/superkilen---1728.md)** (park) — Urban park opened 2012 in Nørrebro, designed by BIG, Topotek1 and artist group Superflex around objects nominated by local residents from their countries of origin. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.kk.dk/dagsordener-og-referater/Teknik-%20og%20Milj%C3%B8udvalget/m%C3%B8de-23112015/referat/punkt-6, https://dac.dk/en/magazine/places/superkilen-captures-the-diversity-of-norrebro-82
6. **[Amager Strandpark](/e/amager-strandpark---1729.md)** (park) — Seaside park built 2004-05 around a 2km artificial barrier island designed by Hasløv & Kjærsgaard, replacing an eroding 1930s beach and doubling as coastal defence. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://coastal-management.eu/measure/example-artificial-island-amager-beach-copenhagen-dk.html, https://trap.lex.dk/Amager_Strandpark
7. **[Assistens Kirkegård](/e/assistens-kirkegard---1730.md)** (park) — Working cemetery founded in 1760, burial place of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard; most of its grounds double as a public park while roughly a quarter remains an active burial ground. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://dac.dk/en/magazine/places/assistens-cemetery-kierkegaard-and-h-c-andersen-are-buried-here-74, https://www.kk.dk/brug-byen/natur-og-groenne-omraader/koebenhavns-kirkegaarde/assistens-kirkegaard

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