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Parks & Outdoors
The Englischer Garten, the Isar, and the lakes and mountains within a train ride. Munich treats its river as a swimming pool in summer, which surprises most visitors.
The Englischer Garten covers 375 hectares โ larger than New York's Central Park โ and most visitors see only the first ten minutes of it. It is free, open at night, and long enough that its northern end feels like open countryside.
The Eisbach wave at the park's southern edge is surfed year-round by people in wetsuits, which is the single most photographed thing in Munich that is neither a church nor a beer tent. It is genuinely dangerous and not a beginner's wave.
The Isar itself is the city's summer. Its banks were renaturalised over two decades, and on a hot day the gravel banks fill with people swimming and barbecuing โ an ordinary use of a river that surprises visitors from cities where that would be prohibited.
Beyond the city, the lakes and the Alps are close enough to be an afternoon rather than a trip.
This section is being written. The guide above is the section for now. New articles are published across the site about twice a week rather than a section being filled in a day, so this page grows steadily — it is worth looking in again. In the meantime the sixteen sight pages and the plans by trip length are finished, and they are the best place to start.
Queued for this section
- How does the Isar work as a public swimming place in summer?
- How does the Olympiapark work as a public space?
- What is the Eisbach wave, and can anyone surf it?
- Where can you swim outdoors in Munich, and what does it cost?