According to the Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau, have you ever heard of the "20-minute park effect"? Studies have shown that spending a short amount of time outdoors every day can make people feel happier. Even if you don't exercise, just spending 20 minutes in the park every day can make you feel better. At present, there are 832 parks in Shanghai (including 477 urban parks, 265 pocket parks, 89 rural parks, and 1 theme park), and the total number of parks will increase to more than 1,000 by 2025, and the per capita park green space will reach 9.5 square meters. So, how do you spend these 20 minutes in a park in Shanghai?
PART.01
When the cherry blossom viewing is in progress - the wind here is fragrant!
Zhongshan Park
Address: No. 780, Changning Road
In April, the spring is just right, and the woody hydrangeas that symbolize the romance of spring in Zhongshan Park have bloomed warmly.
The peony flowers in Zhongshan Park have also entered the best viewing period, come and go to a "spring appointment".
Shanghai Binjiang Forest Park
Address: No. 10, Chongjing Road, Lingqiao, Gaoqiao Town, Pudong New Area
The dream of the wood hydrangea and the philodendron flower sea in the same frame satisfies everyone's imagination of the most beautiful April day in the world, and the wood hydrangea full of branches is matched with the blue flower sea of the philodendron, and the poppy beauties are dotted in it, just like an oil painting.
Shanghai Zuibaichi Park
Address: No. 64, Renmin South Road, Songjiang District
This year, Zuibaichi Park relies on the humanistic genes and gardening characteristics of Jiangnan gardens, adapts measures to local conditions, integrates new Chinese design elements into the design, supplemented by various shapes of rhododendrons, and carefully creates 9 Chinese-themed landscapes.
The 2024 Shanghai Rhododendron Exhibition covers dozens of varieties such as spring azalea, summer azalea, Gaoyue azalea, western rhododendron, blue and purple azalea and other seasonal flowers, totaling 6,500 pots, through different flower colors and groups to create a rich flower show atmosphere.
Jiading Wisteria Garden
Address: No. 45, Bole Road, Jiading District
It is another year of wisteria season, and the wisteria garden in Jiading has gradually entered the full blooming period, and you can enjoy a fantastic sea of purple flowers in the garden.
From the end of the wisteria promenade, clusters of wisteria flowers hang down from the porch, as if a purple waterfall is pouring down from the sky, creating a romantic atmosphere.
PART.02
"Forest" distance, "forest" breathing
West Bank Nature and Art Park
Address: West of Longwu Road, Huajing Town, Xuhui District
West Bund Nature and Art Park is the first phase of the Huancheng Ecological Park Belt (Xuhui Section), adhering to the concepts of "park city" and "child-friendly space", organically integrating urban habitat, all-age experience and nature school.
Walk with forest birds and insects, talk with nature art, and spend 20 minutes to start a journey of nature exploration!
Tangfeng Park
Address: Located in Tangzhen, Pudong, east to Tangfeng Road, west of the Outer Ring Expressway,
It is bounded by Chuangxin West Road in the south and Gaoke East Road in the north
With the theme of forest recreation, Tangfeng Park is a forest recreation country park integrating communication, sports, literature and art, and experience.
With the park renovation and upgrading model of "ecology + culture + wisdom", the four functional theme zones of cultural forest area, art collection island area, life garden area and Shanghai-style amusement park are connected to form the overall layout of four areas with one belt and one corridor.
Minhang Cultural Park
Address: No. 2019, Wuzhong Road, Minhang District
Minhang Cultural Park is characterized by red magnolia, autumn fruit plants, wetland water forest and water garden, including landscape garden park, leisure lawn, magnolia garden, lover island, bunker ruins, platform garden, hundred gardens, wetland plank road, landscape lake and other landscape areas.
With lush trees and soft grass, you can enjoy the lightness and freedom of a 20-minute date with the park.
PART.03
Let's go bird watching!
Gimhae Wetland Park
Address: No. 198, Mintang Road, Pudong New Area
Jinhai Wetland Park is a wetland park in Shanghai's Outer Green Belt and one of the city's first 12 wildlife habitats to be named.
The Jinhai wetland is rich in bird resources, including rare birds such as the white-bellied blue flycatcher, the rocky sandpiper and the hill sandpiper.
Chongming Dongtan Bird National Nature Reserve
Address: Changjiang Road, Chongming District, Shanghai
Chongming Dongtan Bird National Nature Reserve is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, providing an important stopover, wintering and breeding ground for migratory birds every year, which can be called a paradise for migratory birds. Coming to Dongtan for bird watching, you can't help but slow down and experience calm.
Century Park
Address: No. 1001, Jinxiu Road, Pudong New Area
I believe many people don't know that there is also a mysterious "Bird Island" hidden in Century Park. This low-key land is open to birds from all directions, and small birds inhabit it all year round.
PART.04
Feel the sparkling water
Changfeng Park
Address: No. 189, Daduhe Road, Putuo District
It's only when you get on the little yellow duck boat with no fancy interior and row to the center of the water that you will find that "City Boat, it turns out to be a kind of self-consistent magic that can make time slow down and stop for a while".
Toyosho Jixiu Park
Address: No. 111, Industrial Road, Baoshan District
The renovation and upgrading of Fengxiang Zhixiu Park will be completed by the end of 2022, and there are viewing attractions such as Green Ring Station, Fenglin Tea House, Fengxiang Children's Space, Forest Theater, and Cedar Forest Path.
Dense and tall forests and clear and abundant water systems are the most significant ecological features of the city's parks. Walking around, you'll find that each of the forest trails is unique.
Whether it's a forest park or a pocket park on the corner, try to spend 20 minutes inside and feel the energy of nature!
Source: Shanghai
Editor: Chen Sha
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