Garnethill Park

Love this wee park! My girlfriend told me that sometimes they turn the waterfall on but I didn’t believe her… then one day I seen it with my own eyes! The best urban waterfall in Glasgow! Don’t forget to visit nearby Billy’s Stores for the happiest newsagent in Scotland… it’s the one with the music blasting out from it!

I’ve worked in Cowcaddens for way more years than I care to mention, but have never visited here before.
It’s a really small split level park — but is a total oasis of quiet and calm in the middle of the city.
The ideal place to go and have lunch and de-​stress :) And it has a wee tower for you to get a better view of the city.

Strangely alluring, this park deserves a good review alone for the fact it represents rare green space in this area. Most would’ve put money on someone developing flats here at some point.
Instead, this two tiered set up represents one of the best outdoor city centre spots to relax on a nice, sunny day and is used extensively by local students (it’s near the art school) and office workers.
As a fellow Unilocaler stated, although it’s well lit, it’s not one to visit at night.

From about April, it is warm enough to eat a picnic lunch here: the rest of the year, it is a smokers” haven. It has a very nicely landscaped water course– although this is frequently clogged or dry, a few children’s play items and what appears to be a stepped auditorium, although there is never any performances here.
Not quite large enough to be counted a park proper, it is just off from the art school, and is often the site of early morning tai chi. Worth a visit if you need somewhere to escape the throng, or have just emerged from a tour of the Art School: convenient rather than elegant, but strangely tidy, given its location.

Stuck in town, cant be arsed trekking along to Kelvin grove park but find yourself in dire need of some green space to collapse into? Well this we gem of an area is ideal for a sprawl in the midday Glasgow summer.
Located in the middle of what once was Garnet Hill Village, this nicely landscaped wee patch of green is pretty damn cool. Opened in the early 90’s this has been the summer haunt for office workers, families, art students and wino’s alike. With a cool waterfall feature running its Length, a two tired layout and a plenty of areas to plonk your arse down and people watch, this is a welcome oasis for all whose feet no longer which to feel the un forgiving feel of concrete beneath there feet… if only for a few minutes.
Ok, like most parks its the kind of place that you give the well known body swerve after night fall and you’ll even have to do the old «i’m reading please don’t bother me» manœuvre once in a while to avoid the occasional bam, but hey, that’s part of living in Glasgow.
So yeah, its pretty cool. Plus there’s a wee paper shop round the corner so you can get your ice cream fix too while relaxing with a book, magazine, leaflet, pamphlet, crisp bag, bus ticket or anything else that has writing on it.