Nature & Outdoors

Parks, forests, rivers and quiet corners of the outdoors, gathered by people who spend their weekends in them.

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The national parks of Great Britain — Britain's national parks are not wilderness and never were: the land inside the boundaries stays largely in private hands, people live and…
Mexico City's great urban parks and forests — Mexico City's green space runs from a 1592 colonial promenade hemmed in by museums to federally protected pine forest on the Sierra de las…
Kuala Lumpur's public parks — Kuala Lumpur City Hall runs most of the green space inside the city, and in May 2026 it pushed the gates of ten of those parks back to 5.30…
The lakes of the Leipziger Neuseenland — Every one of these waters was an open-cast lignite pit first. The German register of the Leipziger Neuseenland lists each basin with its fi…
Nairobi's public parks and urban forests — Nairobi's green space runs from lawns you can walk to from a downtown office to a thousand-hectare gazetted forest with waterfalls in it, a…
Tuscany's free hot springs — Southern Tuscany has hot springs with no ticket and no gate, most of them on the flanks of Monte Amiata, an extinct volcano, and in the val…
The Royal Parks of London — Eight parcels of Crown land, enclosed for hunting by Tudor and Stuart monarchs and opened to the public over the following centuries, are s…
Iceland's geothermal pools out in the countryside — Iceland's bathing culture does not stop at the ring road, and this list stays with the pools that need a drive, a track or a river crossing…