The Ludo garden in the Jardin du Luxembourg (Saint-Germain-des-prés district, Paris6th)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address : Rue de Médicis / Rue de Vaugirard -75006 Paris in the heart of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district
- The Ludo garden is open every day
- Opening hours depending on the season: From 10 am to 9:30 pm in summer. The winter closure is brought forward (consult the Garden’s website)
- Prices : €3 for children (from 3 to 12 years old) and €1 per adult
- The area is fenced and offers many educational games in the middle of vegetation sheltered from noise, protected by trees. Fun and pleasant, it has recently been fitted out using devices designed in ecological and sustainable materials
- Nearby, the café offers ice creams, drinks and small delicacies
- For the little ones – a mini rope course, swings, slides and inflatable rocks
- For the older ones : a zip line and climbing ropes as well as a giant domino
- There are also workshops, an educational vegetable garden, huts to tell secrets, a labyrinth to hide or a small amphitheater to tell stories
This beautiful playground, in the heart of Paris, offers a peaceful space of greenery and safety for children who learn from contact with nature. TheJardin du Luxembourg also offers other play areas such as a basketball court, chess tables, sandboxes and bowling greens. We will not forget Guignol and the Small Boats on the Grand Bassin.
- Booklets can be downloaded from the garden website and offer fun trails and treasure hunts
The adventure playground of the Nelson-Mandela Garden
(Les Halles district)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: 1 rue Pierre-Lescot, 1st. Metro: Les Halles – between the Canopée, the St-Eustache church and the Bourse du Commerce
- The adventure playground is open every day except Mondays
- Seasonal opening hours
- Free
- Trees and misters : we love it when it’s hot! And toilets are accessible as well as water points
- For 2-6 year olds – a small playground with swings, slide, metal structures to walk on, monkey bridges and marble paths.
- For 7 to 11 year olds – a 2,500 m² adventure playground is reserved for them – Trampoline, megamachines, bridge, ramp and climbing trees
- A 400 m² playground (football field, basketball courts, ping-pong tables) decorated by the street artist Romain Froquet
A very central location in the new Les Halles district. With a very particular and hyper playful universe made of a retro-futuristic world map. It’s a fun planet where the colourful imagination finds a place of choice in the middle of the vegetation. Especially for 7-11 year olds and with sneakers it’s better!
Banks of the Seine: the children’s landmark
(Paris Centre)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: from the Quai des Tuileries to the Port de l’Arsenal (Paris Centre)- Right and left banks
- Open 24 hours a day
- Free, accessible toilets + seasonal toilets, water points, green spaces
- Many games drawn on the ground : world map, animals, hopscotch, chess, maze, giant goose game…
- A 40-metre Little Adventurer’s course with balance areas with wooden studs and tree trunks
- And 2 mini climbing walls for climbers.
- A 20-metre-long slate wall
- Via Ferrata, multi-sport and mini-football field, approved and 5 petanque courts!
The Parc Rives de Seine is located in the centre of Paris, on both sides of the Seine for 4 km! Very fun and sporty facilities are dotted along the entire route, there is something for everyone, and adults are not left out: clubbing atmosphere while supervising the children, in a hammock or on the lawn with the family!
Frequented all year round and very pleasant even in winter, it is the liveliest free place in the capital in summer, during Paris-Plage
We recommend the area between the Pont Neuf and the Pont au Change and near the Pont d’Arcole and the Federico-Garcia-Lorca square with young children: ground games accessible to toddlers, climbing wall and adventure course for children from 3 years old to 10 years old. For the older ones: mini-football pitches, apparatus, and lots of activities.
The playground of the Parc Floral
(Paris 12th)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: Route de la pyramide, 75012 Paris – Very close to the Château de Vincennes
- Open from 9:30 am to 5 pm, 6 pm, 6:30 pm or 8 pm depending on the season
- To enter the Parc Floral it’s free: every day from September to the end of April, and paid on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from May to the end of September, days of entertainment and concerts
- Accessible toilets, changing area, water points, green areas, restaurant, drinks vending machine
- Great slide from the Amazon Tower to 6 meters high
- A ten-metre climbing structure
- slides, swings, rope pyramid, turnstile, spring games, tunnels and lots of hiding places
- The playpen is equipped with a mister, ideal for hot weather and with babies and little ones
Nestled in theBois de Vincennes and in the 12th arrondissement , the free playground of the Parc Floral is ideal for the little ones. You can also enjoy several low-budget activities, each more attractive than the last: Rosalie rides, minigolf, escape game, treasure hunt and for the little ones: The Guignol kiosk!
Frequented all year round, the Parc Floral in addition to being a wonderful botanical garden, is also a very famous stage with the Paris Jazz festival which is held from June to September!
“Up there” at the André-Citroën park
(Paris 15th)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: 2, rue Cauchy 75015 Paris (15th) – The “La Haut” playground is located in the heart of the Parc André-Citroën where you can find the Ballon Générali on which you can climb to discover one of the most beautiful views of Paris, two large tropical greenhouses
- Open every day – From 8am or 9am to 7pm / 7:30pm / 8:30pm / 9:30pm depending on the season
- Free, toilets nearby, and water point, drinks dispenser – vegetal
- For the little ones , several spaces are dedicated to them in the black garden: 5 enclosures with 2 sandboxes topped with spring games, wooden huts and slides
- For pre-teens : The inevitable tree climbing course, free access to ping-pong or chess tables, water games and a gigantic tropical greenhouse
- Water jet pool: ideal when it’s hot
With the “La Haut” game course, it will be a question of defying weightlessness! Whoever touches the ground has lost! It is a demanding mini tree climbing course offered to children and young teenagers. It is located in the 15-hectare André-Citroën Park : agility, sport but also meetings between children of all ages and families.
The Clichy-Batignolles Park – Martin Luther King
(Paris 17th)
A park full of surprises!
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: 147, rue Cardinet, Paris 17th – in the center of the new Clichy-Batignolles district
- Open every day – 7am-9:30pm in summer, 7am-8:30pm in autumn – and 7am-7pm in winter (allow an hour later in the morning on weekends)
- Free, accessible toilets and water points, caretaker. Catering area in the “La Forge” building
- In all, it is 433 m² of play space for the little ones, 520 m2 for middle-aged children,
- 1200 m2 for ball games, 915 m2 for the skate park and 390 m2 for basketball, as well as a “ball area on the wall“
- Antique wooden and board games to borrow free of charge against a deposit
- Ideal when it’s hot, there are many pools, shaded areas that protect children’s games, and lawns
Many very original spaces on this old railway line fully landscaped. There is something to satisfy children of all ages, from toddlers to teenagers, to each his own space and sports fields. It is the most eco-friendly of the recently designed parks: vegetation, biotope, recycled water, solar panel and wind turbine! All generations meet there, we really like this park
The Jardin du Dragon, the playground of La Villette
(Paris, 19th)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: Parc de la Villette 211 Avenue Jean Jaurès (19th) – Ideally located near the Cité des Sciences , you should take the footbridge of the Canal de l’Ourcq
- Open every day – from 8 am to 7 pm
- Free, accessible toilets and water point, vegetated – food point nearby
- The playground for the little ones (follow the pictograms for the recommended ages): stability games, climbing nets, rocking animals, turnstile
- From 8 to 14 years old The colourful Iron Dragon is 25 metres long: an 11-metre tube slide (with a diameter sufficient for teenagers) acts as a tongue
- To access the dragon’s head? rope, rubber stairs, miscellaneous nets
All you have to do is enter the mouth of the multicolored dragon to let off steam after a visit to an exhibition at the Cité des Sciences! This beautifully renovated playground is designed for all children from 3 to 13 years old. For the dragon, access is only allowed from the age of 8
Thrills at the Parc de Belleville (Paris, 20th)
Days, times and what can be done there?
- Address: 47, rue des Couronnes (20th) – 15 minutes from the Buttes Chaumont,
- Open every day – from 7 am to 8:30 pm in summer – 8 am to 7 pm in winter
- Free, accessible toilets and water point, vegetated
- Large slope with shock-absorbing materials and no risk of rolling down
- The courtyard is lined witht-oboggans, aluminium pipes, climbing nets, climbing areas, trapdoors and other balance beams… and stair accesses to take a look at the little ones
- Paddling pool and small water jets: ideal when it’s hot
- Table tennis tables and table football
The Parc de Belleville offers one of the most original playgrounds in the capital. Designed for daredevils with its 30-degree slope, it is based on the notion of risk-taking thanks to this difference in altitude. It is fitted out with special materials to keep children safe. On 1000 m2 – From 6 years old and pre-teens (up to 15 years old)
