7 Nature Parks in Ciudad de México, Mexico: Map & Photos

7 parks and reserves

Ciudad de México has 7 parks and reserves with their own page on Puebloteca.

Parks and reserves are best on weekdays and early in the day. Bring water, and check the opening hours, since some close one day a week.

Best months, when most of these towns are dry with comfortable afternoons: Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec.

The Nature Parks 7

Bosque de Chapultepec · Nature reserve · Miguel Hidalgo
More than 800 hectares of forest in four sections: rowboats on the lakes, a free zoo, the castle hill and the city's great museums.
Bosque de San Juan de Aragón · Nature reserve · Gustavo A. Madero
A 162-hectare urban forest in northern Mexico City with a lake, a 5 km running loop and a free zoo next door; Metro Bosque de Aragón (Line B).
Bosque de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Tlalpan
A 253-hectare urban park on Xitle lava: running tracks, mountain trails, a duck lake and traces of Cuicuilco. Open daily.
Cerro de la Estrella · Nature reserve · Iztapalapa
Iztapalapa's hill, where the Mexica lit the New Fire every 52 years and where the Iztapalapa Passion play ends each Good Friday.
Desierto de los Leones · Nature reserve · Cuajimalpa de Morelos
Mexico's first national park: fir forest above the city around a 17th-century Carmelite convent with hermitages and a whispering chapel.
Los Dinamos · Nature reserve · La Magdalena Contreras
Forested canyon of the Río Magdalena, the city's last living river: waterfalls, climbing walls, trout and old Porfirian power plants.
Parque nacional Fuentes Brotantes de Tlalpan · Nature reserve · Tlalpan
National park declared in 1936, with Ajusco springs, a lake of ducks and turtles, trails and food stalls; about 8 of its 129 hectares remain.