Wimbledon Park Reviews Summary

Park Facilities

Pros:

• "Great park with lots of space. Playground has much to offer as well as tennis courts, beach volleyball and a large pond with lots of water fowl."
• "The park includes a small wood, a large field, a small enclosed green, a boating lake with sailing building and compound, a bowling green with a pavilion, a mini golf course, beach volleyball courts, 10 floodlit professional standard tennis courts, 10 tarmac non-lit ones, two playgrounds for different age groups to enjoy, a running track with spectator stands and changing rooms, a cafe and a disused police station."
• "With a lake to go canoeing or rafting; an enormous park to play any team sport that comes to mind; a playground and sand pit for children; eight tennis courts and two beach volleyball pits - what's not to love?"
• "A park full of entertainment. From baby park to kids park. Splash pool, lake to feed birds, crazy golf, tennis courts, football green, athletic track, soft play, volleyball set up."
• "For sports enthusiasts, Wimbledon Park offers a range of facilities, including tennis courts, football pitches, and a golf course."
• "It's a great place for young children. There's a large playground with different activity frames for different ages and a 5x8m sandpit."
• "A beautiful park in Wimbledon not far from the famous Tennis courts, there is an athletic stadium, tennis courts of course, and a lake to hire boats, canoes."

Cons:

• "Barbeques are allowed in this park, which is great. The flip-side being that some people don't throw their post-bbq rubbish in the bin or even make an effort to extinguish their bbq's, leaving their trash behind."
• "80% of the park is private or closed and you will just have access to a field with people walking their dogs or jogging around."
• "The climbing walls are closed."
• "The cafe is expensive and the mini golf is over priced for not being very well maintained at all."
• "Can be quite messy sometimes because of overflowing bins and rubbish, avoid at Wimbledon Tennis Championship times for obvious reasons."
• "The children's playground had a bit of a urine smell in spots."
• "Was spoken to very rudely by a groundsman who was driving what looks like an oversized dodgem car, hard courts are totally worn out, holes in the nets uneven surface, overpriced."

Accessibility & Parking

Pros:

• "The street leading to the park has free off-street parking after 8:30pm."
• "Ample parking available for vehicles."
• "On weekends you can park cars in nearby residential area."
• "Parking spaces is limited but parking is free."
• "Two car parks, depending on what entrance you come from."
• "Taking the tube to Wimbledon park station and a short 10 minute walk brings you to one end of the park."
• "Adjacent to a private golf course and Wimbledon tennis grounds. 5 minutes walk from Southfields underground station."

Cons:

• "The queue was very unorganized. We came back home after 5 hours of waiting to get inside."
• "If you plan a visit dont go to the Wimbledon Park tube station as it is very far away in fact."
• "The park did not seem to be as easily accessible as initially thought!"
• "First time visiting here. Didn't think parking would be as bad as it was, with the car park being closed to vehicles, possibly because it was full."
• "Parking can be bad, so I'd recommend walking there if you can, or get public transport."
• "Brilliant park for your children, lovely cafe, paddling pool, only down side is the parking on the road, you can't see the single lines, so unfortunately we got a ticket."
• "Nice park very open to the elements though."

Atmosphere & Environment

Pros:

• "It's such a lovely, large and well kept park, with a happy atmosphere."
• "Very lovely park! My daughter always enjoys riding her bike around and getting on the playground."
• "The lake and birds - so beautiful and peaceful."
• "Swans gracefully glide across the water, adding a touch of tranquility."
• "Beautiful spot full of flowers and trees."
• "Very quiet and peaceful after 5pm though and on weekday evenings."
• "Calm and clean. Lot of children's play area."

Cons:

• "We took our 2 granddaughters to this park today... there were hardly any benches for the grown ups to sit on so we could keep an eye on the kids in comfort."
• "The lake is great, but not completely accessible from all sides."
• "The pond could do with some railings as my six month old puppy nearly fell in trying to get lose bread that people are feeding to the ducks."
• "Muddy in some areas of grass but very open and has clean pathways."
• "You always bump into some kind of barrier."
• "For the park in general, the toilets facilities are always dirty and smelly, they should have staff looking after it during summer days - it's by the playground where everyone gets wet."
• "Quite poorly designed and overly groomed park compared to other London parks of that size."