Points East

This is my favourite park in London. I love walking along the canal that runs alongside the park. Amazing canal barges and narrow boats of all sizes and designs. The park is well maintained and clean. It has something for everyone. There are lots of benches where you can sit, relax and take in the scenery. It has a large lake where you can go boating, playgrounds for children, green area space for picnics and smooth tarmac paths that weave through the park for walking, running or roller skating.

Walking through Victoria Park,the boating lake and refreshment area then onto Pagoda Island,back round lake and then through Mile End Park close to the Canal and boats! It was perfect,breezy,warm beautiful to feel that with birds and wildlife buzzing around. The canal boats were interesting to see,like being in the country it was so quiet,beautiful,take a picnic and blanket,therapy for sure

This is one of my favourite London parks and certainly the most under-rated. It is huge for London. We entered it having strolled along the canals down from Camden heading east. There is a wonderful lake with pagoda and pavilion, including boats to hire. Several children’s playareas, a skate park, and lots of benches to sit in the sun or shady and lots of space to stroll around amongst the trees. Always busy even in winter with walkers, runners and dog walking. A wonderful park all year-round. We walked right across it and then headed on towards Stratford. Lots of great walks taking in this park in the area.

Victoria Park is one of the most beautiful, majestic, notable and most visited parks in Greater London spreading over 218 acres of green space interspersed with Parklands, Boating and Angling Lakes, Birds Island, Wildlife, Varied Landscapes, Diverse Range of Trees, English Garden, Arts, Sculptures, Cafes, Playgrounds, Sports Facilities, Events Venue, Fountains, Historic Trail, World of Trees, Walking Trails and much more! The prettiest natural Victoria Park attracts everyone's attention! It is a must visit for everyone! It is the London's 3rd largest and Tower Hamlets largest park. Victoria Park is locally known as Vicky Park or the People’s Park! Victoria Park is a very welcoming place and attractive locations for everyone of all ages and abilities for anytime of the year! There is something at the park for each member of the family. Vicky Park is always full of visitors - some doing exercises, some using the park as a shortcut to the other side, some having picnics, sunbathing, reading books, playing with children, enjoying wildlife, Angling on the lake, Boating on the West Lake, observing the wildlife, discovering the Spring Blooms, having a coffee break and/or lunch/brunch, having a stroll following the Walking Trails around the park exploring the history of the park, and historic trees! Large, wider concrete footpaths very effectively connect all parts of the Park, entrances, features, playgrounds, and sports facilities! Hence, it is very much accessible for anyone with mobility restrictions, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and pushchairs! Accessible Toilets are available on both sides of the Park! It is most commonly seen when travelling through the roads and/or Regent's Canal flanked by the borders of the Park. Grove Road splits the park in two sections - West and East! The smaller West Park boasts Victoria Park West Lake with Water Fountain while you’ll find the Victoria Fountain, Bowling Green, Tennis Courts, and Athletic Field in the larger East Park! Because of the large wide open space Grasslands - Victoria Park hosts many large events including festivals, community events, 5K Runs, sports competitions and much more!

Really nice and large park in east London. Beautiful ponds, large fields and features a weekly market. Have spent a lot of time there especially during summer months, it’s beautiful and even allows views of the London skyline with a canal for lovely strolls to and from the park! There are a couple of restaurants dotted around the edge that are great for a Sunday meal after a walk in the park!

The most active park in London, its packed with people with so much wildlife, beautiful lake. Nice to see people making full use of this park with jogging and cycling and so many other fun activities, love the canal.

Huge park. Real nice food market and entrances by bow, regents canal, Hackney central and Hackney wick. Had a nice affordable boat ride for half an hour around the lake on a nice day too

It's a park of two halves ...and the western half, if you can't make it to Richmond or Hampstead Heath, is maybe as close to Park Paradise as London gets. Eats: gardens: lakes and swans: even a Pagoda. The trees are splendid, not only in autumn; the park is big enough for a good stroll without losing its intimacy. A treat and a quiet joy. The eastern half is less impressive. There's the canal and a handsome arcade of trees: but otherwise, little more than a series of playing fields. And the trouble is that South Hackney - or at least, the bit that abuts the Park - consists of social housing for vulnerable, disabled or impoverished people, whose needs Tower Hamlets treats with apathy or seeming contempt. There's the appalling Love Pox Festival can't you get an ointment for that? whose racket renders sleep impossible for elderly citizens or young families or early risers - and if you're studying for exams, you may well need to move out for the duration. Flushed with success, the venal money-grubbers of the Brady Bunch Arts Centre what they Hell do they do for the rest of the year? are on the prowl for yet more cash-cows to make summer a misery for those without the wherewithal to move home. And if you must venture in: be advised that the security guards Tower Hamlets hire for these jamborees, have sometimes seemed little better than thugs. For visitors, and overall: Four Stars.

The park is big and nice but could be a little better , it needs some development like more trees and better structure to arrange open free space with more green and ponds could be better maintained . It is popular place so if you going to visit it on weekend during nice weather , expect many many Londoners looking for some peace and quiet. There is coffee bar , and toilet , few benches , beautiful fauna . However , something is missing indeed .

A wonderful park that has a very different ‘feel’ on each side of it, one being a lot more safe and smart and the other just sort of obnoxious and having little decorum. Nice broad paths for cycling down or roller blading and the canal side of the park is fantastic! Some great sunsets can be witnessed here and the bottling lake is a good shout on a warm sunny day. The toilets are shut fairly early in the evening.