Edinburgh Parks and Play Areas

Take the short trip from the city centre to the Royal Botanic Garden, acknowledged as one of the world’s finest gardens. It includes Britain’s tallest palm house and 6% of all known plants.

A very different experience of nature is presented by the primal crags of Arthur’s Seat in Holyrood Park, which rises to 251 metres (higher than any point in Denmark).

Choose to live anywhere in the city region and you’ll be close to an area of singular, natural beauty. Ramble among the woodland trails of Dalkeith Country Park and Roslin Glen. Visit the great estates of Dalmeny and Hopetoun along the Forth coastline.

Contemplate the ‘wide and starry sky’ above the Pentland Hills Regional Park. The air is as invigorating as it was when Robert Louis Stevenson came here to recuperate as a child.

The seascapes and cliff top trails of John Muir Country Park honour the memory of the Dunbar native who founded Yosemite National Park and became the father of the conservation movement.