To help you plan ahead for your outdoor events or weekend activities as an alternative to shopping malls, here are some of the outdoor parks that you could consider. If you feel like jogging, strolling around or having a family picnic, there’s a lot of public parks available around Doha and its peripherals alone. And that’s perfect for that cozy family bonding for kids to explore vast open spaces.
They are located in different parts of the city and thankfully, this is one of the government’s main priority projects aside from the regular roads, drainages and other infrastructure projects. Qatar’s commitment to a healthy environment and encouraging sports and exercise amongst its people are some of the obvious reasons for the proliferation of these beautiful parks.
19 BEST PUBLIC PARKS IN DOHA (in no particular order):
1. AL BIDDA PARK (covering Al Bidda, Al Rumaila East and Wadi Al Sail)
2. ASPIRE PARK (Hyatt Plaza)
3. HOTEL PARK (Sheraton Hotel)
4. MIA PARK
5. SOUQ WAQIF PARK
6. OXYGEN PARK (Qatar Foundation)
7. MUGLINA UNIT PARK (opposite Qatar National Museum)
8. AIRPORT PARK (Old Airport Complex)
9. MAMOURA FAMILY PARK
10. MADINAT KHALIFA SOUTH PARK
11. AL LUQTA CHILDREN’S PARK
12. SALATA PARK
13. AL THUMAMA PARK
14. AL NUAIJA FAMILY PARK
15. FAREEJ AL ALI FAMILY PARK
16. PARK 65 (Dafna)
17. ONAIZA PARK
18. AL RAYYAN PARK
19. AL HITMI PARK (Bin Omran)
There are even smaller parks around many communities and all of these have been established by the Public Gardens Department of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) featuring ample green areas, bike tracks, passageways, kids play area and safe rubber surface. These parks are equipped with spacious playgrounds and offer WiFi connectivity too. Similar other parks are also available in other Municipalities of Qatar.
What activities do you usually do in the park? Please share some bonding activities that others might also consider the next time they hop on those green scapes.
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Picnics! We bring food, gather with families, bring bikes and scooters for our kids to play 😊
Play badminton or jog/run and best is picnics or just go there sit and breathe in some fresh air 😀
Our kids enjoy biking around, playing tag and on the playground they enjoy most the sandbox! Maybe because they are confined in the concrete walls of the house the whole weekdays. 🙂 Making the most out of this good weather is nice ‘coz it will not take long. Before we know it, it will be summer again.
We usually bring food and share stories. We go biking, play different board games and also pinoy henyo 😍❤️😍 to make our time worthwhile 😍
Thanks for the info #BestLifeQatar we will surely visit the other parks 😍
Going to Parks is usually our bonding moment..We’re usually taking a walk or my daughter doing biking, skating or roller blading..Its also a place where we usually bring home cooked food and having picnic with family and friends.
Al Bidda park, MIA park and Hotel park are both my daughters favourites. They love going over there.
I love walking and running in parks beacuse it boosts moods and relieves depression.
Parks are also good for photoshoot 😍 Recently I had a maternity shoot at MIA park. Going to parks is another way to spend quality time with our family and loved ones. Bonding moments like playing board games and eating together at parks make it worthy to be with our family.
i just do aome jogging at aspire because it was the nearest park to my place, sometimes we just do muni-muni like now, the weather was perfect . winter
We usually jog,walk&play badmintton with kids during weekend. Sometimes,we bring food and have picnic with family.
Family bonding, where you can bring the pinoy good ”larong kalye” to teach your child taguan, chinese garter, luksong baka, mahuli taya 😄
We go with my family and my child love to play ball, we bring bike and ball thant can play there.
Al Bidaa Park is near to me and my daughter love so much ..Mostly she loves biking 🚴🏽♀️
I like Luqtha park…coz its silent and not crowdwledand the best part they have big slide etc….which i love to play eventhough a mother of three….😉
Thumama park….love it as it is near by and kids love playing here
This is a great family bonding especially if you have a kids like me,, we usually bring foods..and my husband playing guitar while my two kiddos was singing and dancing.😍😍😍 and also we just lie down on the grass and start to watch the clouds and identify shapes, and the most importantly we must teach our kids to have down time away from all electronics and should enjoy nature…❤️❤️❤️
My daughter loves to play in the park. Sometimes we bring mat and food for a Picnic.😊
Thanks for sharing. Always a great bonding activity.
We take food with us and spent quality tym with oor daughters without any electrical gadjets
Biking at the MIA Park and Al Bidda park is one of our fave activities 🙂
Me and my 2 kids usually visit MIA, Souq Waqif and Al Bidda parks for some playtime and some fresh air. They are nice alternative to malls and a great way for them to know and learn more about nature. 🙂
MIA park is the nearest park for us so usually if it’s Thursday night is picnic muchin’ and in regular days it’s walkathon.