Address: 76 Park Rd W, Wolverhampton, WV1 4PH, United Kingdom
Phone: +441902551155
Rating: 4.5
based on 267 reviews.
Park Facilities
Pros:
"West Park also has a bandstand, tea room, clean toilets and the children's playing area has a brilliant range of options."
"The coffee shop offers a wide select of drinks, ice cream and food bit closes early around 4 pm."
"The park features a large Victorian Green House with a wide collection of plants, and there is a cafe too!"
"Free parking and public toilets."
"The tea rooms are great with a wide range of tea, coffee, cakes and ice cream."
"There’s a cafe nice but a bit pricey! Staff there are very welcoming and polite."
"Easy parking, facilities available, great coffee shop."
Cons:
"Public toilets have a 10p fee but the conditions inside were disgusting and smelled really bad."
"The disappointing aspect is that the public toilets are disgusting."
"I was there today & needed the toilet I put 10p in the Machine and when I entered the toilet Was absolutely disgusting."
"Took a star off for charging for toilets, yes you have to maintain them but if people need a toilet, they really can't help it. Shouldn't be charging for that."
"What a shame the tea room wasn't open. Could have done with a coffee and bacon roll."
"Shame that the green house is permanently closed due to covid."
"Unfortunately the boat hire service is no longer available."
Park Maintenance
Pros:
"Early mornings are great, with a brilliant paced path for walks and very clean and well kept."
"The Park is very well maintained and the trees and flowers are a joy to gaze at."
"Regular jaunt, excellent park kept in perfect condition."
"Great faun and flora, well maintained, lovely park."
"Very old park that's kept beautiful credit to staff."
"This Park is well maintained, lots of colour in the summer and a pleasant place to walk all year."
"Clean and tidy area."
Cons:
"Disappointed to see such a wonderful park not being maintained properly."
"A once beautiful and grand park in the early 1900's. But in 2019, I can only review on what I see today and it's not great."
"The park is looking rather neglected. Areas of brambles, nettles, weeds, dead tree, broken branches."
"The park is beautiful but ill kept. The lawns were full of bird/dog feaces and there was a bad smell while walking through the lawns."
"3 stars may seem a little harsh for this beautiful oasis in the heart of Wolverhampton however the park has suffered in recent years from neglect."
"A beautiful park spoilt by litter."
"The path around the lake is normally dirty."
Wildlife and Nature
Pros:
"The wildlife on the park is quite friendly, especially the Canadian Geese."
"Many beautiful ducks in the pond makes it even more beautiful."
"Home to many walks of wildlife, it also has a splendid lake and excellent tennis court's."
"In the centre is a pond with many types of birds for the kids to enjoy."
"There are squirrels jumping in the trees, and swans, geese and other birds swim in the lake."
"Beautiful park with fantastic friendly animals that will feed from hand."
"There are so many ducks, geese and swans on the lake too."
Cons:
"One downside were the amount of rats we saw scuttling around, I really hope the council sort this out!"
"Unfortunately there are plenty of rat's running around which worries me."
"There were rats everywhere. We left because I couldn't stand it."
"The lake is over run with Canada Geese, when I last fed the ducks with my son they were getting out of the water and being aggressive to get fed."
"The park is overrun with Canada geese, and it's impossible to avoid waking in their droppings."
"However I saw visitors feeding lot of bread to ducks and pegieons which is very harmful to them."
"The lakes were polluted too with the bread chunks thrown into them."
General Experience
Pros:
"A pleasant park walk in central Wolverhampton."
"Nice park where you could spend the best part of a day exploring."
"Beautiful park to relax, have a jog or walk around."
"Great park for walks and relaxing! Probably one of the best parks in Wolverhampton."
"It's a superb, tranquil and delightful place! See you there..."
"West Park has a nice peaceful feel about it."
"Very relaxing, beautiful scenery and fantastically well maintained."
Cons:
"Would like to see some wardens as I saw someone who wasn't too friendly with his two dogs, shouting and swearing which was scary and unpleasant."
"Now you risk being mown down by selfish idiots."
"A group of boys on bikes throwing fireworks around scaring the animals and young children enjoying half term."
"So many memories here, park visitors shouldn't have dogs off the lead!"
"I went with my sister to watch Boyzlife although we had a fab night there were a lot of homeless people asking for money."
"Absolutely disgusting no cleaning no one to watchover kids and younger teenager are fighting smooking weeds infront of babies."
"The only issue is the park, like most parks, suffers with a certain amount of asb and is frequented by less than desirable individuals."