# Best Parks in Budapest

Budapest's green spaces, from a Danube-island promenade to a wooded hilltop. · community starter list

7 parks in Budapest, including Margaret Island (Margaret Island, Budapest). 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) / [Hungary](/hungary.md) / Budapest
**Updated:** 2026-09-05 14:47:50

1. **[Margaret Island](/e/margaret-island---1829.md)** (park) — A Danube island landscaped from the 1790s onward, freely open to all since 1945 with running tracks, a water tower lookout, and thermal-era gardens. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://pestbuda.hu/cikk/20200518_150_eves_a_margitsziget_rendezesi_terve_igy_lett_kozpark_a_nyulak_szigetebol, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Island
2. **[Városliget (City Park)](/e/varosliget-city-park---1830.md)** (park) — Budapest's largest park, remade since 2013 by the Liget Budapest project with new museums and a car-free promenade; the city's own chief landscape architect disputes the claimed green-space gains. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://telex.hu/belfold/2023/11/11/baan-laszlo-liget-projekt-bardoczi-sandor-budapest-fotajepitesz-varosliget, https://ligetbudapest.hu/en/liget-budapest-project
3. **[Gellért Hill](/e/gellert-hill---1831.md)** (park) — Dolomite hill and protected nature reserve since 1997 with rare karst flora; its hilltop Citadella fortress reopened in 2026 after a renovation that grew the site's green space by half. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://pestbuda.hu/cikk/20241231_kelta_fellegvartol_a_csillagvizsgaloig_a_gellert_hegy_sziklacsucsanak_tortenete, https://citadella.hu/hu/rolunk
4. **[Normafa](/e/normafa---1832.md)** (park) — A wooded Buda Hills summit ringed by 300 hectares of old-growth beech and oak forest, popular for hiking and sledging; its former car park became green space from 2021. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://pestbuda.hu/cikk/20210507_kezdodik_a_normafa_eddigi_parkolojanak_atalakitasa_aszfalt_helyett_zoldfeluletet_varja_majd_a_latogatokat, https://szentelyerdo.wwf.hu/normafa/
5. **[Kopaszi-gát](/e/kopaszi-gat---1833.md)** (park) — A Danube-bay embankment reclaimed from industrial land into a free public park in the 2000s, with lawns, a sandy beach and promenades; privately developed and maintained as part of BudaPart. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://welovebudapest.com/en/venue/kopaszi-gat-1/, https://index.hu/bcs/2018/12/01/kopaszi-gat-tortenete-budapart/
6. **[Károlyi-kert](/e/karolyi-kert---1834.md)** (park) — The oldest garden in inner Pest, laid out in the 1740s beside Károlyi Palace and opened to the public in 1919; a walled green oasis with an ancient mulberry tree amid the dense downtown. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://pestbuda.hu/cikk/2018113_a_grof_ur_eperfaja, https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rolyi-kert
7. **[Orczy-kert](/e/orczy-kert---1835.md)** (park) — An 18th-century English garden turned public park beside the Ludovika university campus, reopened in 2018 after a renovation that added a new sports centre and adventure park. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orczy-kert, https://pestbuda.hu/cikk/20180405_atadtak_az_orczy_parki_sportkozpontot

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