Quiet, water & forest
Stromovka
On foot 28 min · By car 6 min
Sixty-eight hectares of green on the edge of town, reachable on foot from the centre. In the middle lies Lake Bagr with its own islet — a place for a whole afternoon rather than a half-hour walk. The lake was never in any plan: it is flooded gravel pits from post-war extraction that filled with groundwater on their own.
It is the largest park in Budějovice, twenty minutes on foot from the centre. The paths are straight, good for bikes, prams and inline skates; there is an eighteen-hole disc-golf course that is free to play, and since autumn 2025 a skatepark with a barbecue area too. You cannot swim in the Bagr, though: according to the town it is a relaxation zone, not a bathing place.
Practical details
- On foot 28 min · By car 6 min
- Opening hours: volně přístupné, zdarma, celoročně
On site
Lake Bagr has a water surface of 2.6 hectares, an islet of just under 1,600 m² and depth up to five metres. You can tell it is not a pond: it has no dam or inflow stream. Trees in the park are clearly of different ages — original fast-growing poplars and willows, from the mid-1980s oaks, beeches and limes. Nothing remains of the children's railway with a tunnel that ran here from 1958 to 1969.