3 Best Parks in Dumfries & Galloway, UK

Family friendly. A great little park. Really well maintained. Nice well sized boating pond. Lots of lovely wildlife even managed to see a few fish swimming around. The children’s play area has some really unusual features incorporating water. Lots of children playing and having great fun! There is a pretty putting green. Clubs and balls can be hired for a small fee and come with a scoring sheet and pencil. It was great fun even if I did lose! If you’re looking for somewhere to take the family or sit peacefully on your own to watch the world go by this is the place!

This is a lovely park and it is so well attended too. There are some lovely big trees and then there is a nice boating pond. There is the reminder that once a train would have pulled in here as part of the old line remains. There is a play park for children and also pitch and putt in better weather. This park is an excellent facility for all ages.

Lovely wee place for a walk, during the summer you'll find boats on the pond, lot's of ducks and swan's. There's a small playground for children and a small hut for ice cream.

Excellent place to go, especially in sunny weather, brilliant walks, even has a play area for kids, beautiful flowers and plants. Awsome place to look at plants, planted by LOCALS, Inc primary schools and newly update end bit.. At the top of the stairs. Really well worth a look, even if it is to just stretch your legs.. Bring sandwiches and take your rubbish away, really nice piece of land.. Full of cultures as you can see from the pictures.. Best of all.. It is free.

Had a nice walk around. Not a very big place but lots to look at. The sunken garden is well looked after and has paintings of Robert the Bruce on the walls. Robert the Bruce has a sculpture in the middle of the gardens as well. There is Plenty of seats around the gardens and it's very peaceful and quiet. Castle hill has a small plaque that tell you about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce and how they retook Dumfries castle from the english. The toilets are located beside castle hill. The car park is off the B725 or you can park at Dock park and walk across.

Lovely park, well maintained and now with new murals and some additional planting. You can enter at the top from the Glencapel Road, or from the bottom at the end of Dock Park, by the pedestrian bridge across the Nith at Troqueer. This makes Castledykes a nice stop on a longer walk from the town centre or around the Crichton grounds. There's a public toilet, clean and reasonably well maintained.