Victoria Park

Very fun playground and place to walk around. The heritage centre was very enjoyable and informative.

Beautiful weather. Around a quiet park.
A closed bus terminal.
I rush to Kitchener City Hall and fill my emptiness with warm coffee at the Starbucks window.

Love this park. It is so beautiful. Paved paths to walk or bike on, lots of entertainment for kids, benches and picnic tables are plentiful. Love watching the pair of swans, and all the goslings in the spring.

I enjoy the park run on Saturday mornings at 9. It's a really beautiful place with a nice paved trail.

This was my favourite park for mid-day walks, but the city is allowing a single person to monopolize Roos Island. Shameful.

Nice green space. I am not sure why they are allowing tents in there but it was a nice walk around the lake.

Very peaceful and relaxing park with lush green grass and large playground area. There is a small water pond as well but needs maintenance and cleaning. There is dedicated walking track and sitting benches all over the park. Finding a parking could be challenging over the weekends as it’s in the middle of residential area. Overall good place to visit with family, kids n elderly.

Unfortunately someone (a 45-55 year old adult) decided that the whole park wanted to listen to his loud raucous music.

Nice place, place for picnic, morning/evening walk.
Great play area, calm atmosphere.

A beautiful place for a walk. Many people walking, having picnics, playing in the playground. A fun place to people watch.

Great park that has amenities for people of all ages. Even home to a couple swans named Otis and Ophelia. What more could you want?

Fantastic park. I especially appreciate the corner helpfully constructed in which the disabled may sit.

This is very well architected. A pleasant walk around a lake with swans. Bridges to stroll over water. Connects to walking paths.

Beautiful area. The landscaping is gorgeous. Great place to meet for a coffee or lunch. Close to amazing trails.

Came to this place for rib fest. This park hosts many events throughout the year. Even when there is not event, it's just a genuinely great park to hang out. You'll see wedding couples almost everyday.

Victoria Park is a staple community park. Hosting festivals like the multicultural fest, blues fest, Kulturn, and smaller events.
In 2020 an outdoor gym was added alongside the unkept clean playground and splash pad.
Fun fact did you know the clock tower was part of the old city hall building?
Love biking through and Iron horse trail as seen a major upgrade that takes you through the park!

This is a very beautiful park in a great location. The well-maintained landscaping and cute concrete statues make this a lovely park for a stroll. Understandably, it is on the smaller side. Wish there were more of it to enjoy!

Great public park for the family. I've been coming here since I was a little girl and have so many memories?

Beware of the geese, aha.

Compared to some of the other parks in guelph and Cambridge this pales in comparison. It's not bad per se just not a must see, that's all.

Nice park and playground in Kitchener downtown area.

Little scenic pond is nice for a walk.

They also host many festivals in summer.

Playground and play structure is great for little one to play.

It's good place for walk and picnic for children as well as for all ages. Kind of hangout place for cycling and running.

The park has a good collection of play structure, a good splash pool and great walkways. But the park is not very clean. Saw a lot of chips wrappers, ice cream wrappers, coffee cups, paper napkins, plastic utensil strewn all around the play structures. Kills the fun.

Jewel in the heart of Kitchener. Beautifully kept, especially around the old clock tower. Lots and lots of walking trails, perfect place for photo shoots. Bravo, city of Kitchener.

Very cute park in the city of kitchener lots of animals and fish that u can see and feel loads of fun would recommend to everyone

This is a great place to have lunch, go for a hike, or just enjoy a nice relaxing time near the water. One of the nicest parks in the city. I would definitely recommend having a picnic here.

I went on a Thursday afternoon and it was suuuuper busy and almost nobody was wearing masks. It is a big park but if you're uncomfortable around too many people then it may not be the best place to visit

Wonderful beautiful Park lots of Open spaces with lots of great small bird wildlife and a beautiful pond lots of history in this park too

The park is beautiful. The geese and their babies. The ducks and different types of birds are so fun to watch. Walking or sitting in the park is so relaxing.

Absolutely love this playground for my kids. Very child age inclusive with them having a young child (toddler) playground and a playground for older children as well. Not to mention the amount of walking space and picnic space next to the water. Very nice park.

Very nice park and a good place for festivals and many activities when they can.
I have been using this park my whole life and it has always been a very well maintained park and a good place for family picnics and fun.

A Pokemon Go player's dream. Beautiful scenery and a wonderful streamside walking path that takes you over bridges, across an island and through groves. Pokestops are never more than 1 minute's walk away from each other. A huge playground and splash pad for the kids. Parking can be a bit rough, but Victoria Park makes parking well worth hunting for.

So beautiful and wonderful park for parents and kids
There are many things to play for kids plus play in water in summer time
3 different parking for cars
Nice place for BBQ, a lot of chairs with and without table
Ducks and goose
You can get So much fun with family in this place really and it’s my favorite place for family

One of the best place in Kitchener. A lot staff for kids, beautiful lake with more beatuful Swan Isa.

A nice park to hang out with the kids. Close to downtown Kitchener and trails leading off to other nearby locations.

Fantastic part of kitchener, they playground has this soft play surface that's very forgiving to your kids. The kids waterpark is a good spot to cool down and they do events at the boathouse which pretty good usually. Lots of reasons to visit

Beautiful city center park usually something going on in the summer times too (sunfest and or ribfest

Big park with a walk way around the outside of it. Has a nice river/pond in the middle. Does have restrooms and adequate parking. Has a playground for children as well and also links to the KW bike trail

A true gem. I love this park. It's beautiful all year round. Perfect for a nice walk or run. Great place in the city to observe nature.

Saw Otis and the new swan together for the first time:) decently warm with a bit of a breeze, mostly clear skies, peaceful.

Excellent time with K/W 'Walking group' at Victoria Park. Enjoyed walking in beautiful environment with nature.

I really LOVE how they turned this park around. I remember when it wasnt a place to fo after dark and going through there in the day was just as much a gamble. Now they have every festival they can there, the winter village is a very nice touch and that bangin playground is every kids dream and every parents envy. So impressed with the use of tax money.

Great park! Loved walking with our dogs here! A fair amount of goose poop, but you can't really avoid that when there are that many geese. My wife and I miss this nice park!

This park has a fantastic kids playground. We eally enjoy Kidspark that takes place here in the summer.

Good green space, to sit and picnic or Join a ultimate Frisbee game. Clean glass, Washrooms are clean and easy to find off park street. Boathouse is nearby to listen to music and enjoy a drink.

Wonderful to have such a beautiful park with a lake so close to the centre of the city. I have only a couple of detractors. I do wish the city would put some creative energy and funds into updating and upgrading the very tired and dated Christmas decorations.
The second has more to do with the public, but is also a maintenance issue.
- A year or two ago a rather nice new washroom building was created in the area where festivals are staged. Great, but it needs supervision and regular maintenance and (proper, regular) cleaning.

Well all have good and bad things about it but lack of maintaining the drugs and needles sucks a lot of drunks and bad atmosphere makes me sad as this is a beautiful park I just wish there was a lot less tolerance for people camping out by the courts and such it's a work I. Progress for sure

Seems to be always something happening around this neck of the woods. Anytime of the year looks beautiful and I think they're really making an effort to connect with the public by hosting events.

One among my favorite park in Kitchener and Waterloo that offer a lot of entertainment avenues for any age. Beside to have a good playground for kids, you can do a lot of activities like walking, running, reading and chatting with family members and friends; or just having indvidualy quite and refreshing time, including stairing or interacting with ducks in the ponds among others. This is the place among others I dearly miss during winter time.

Great park, and nice during the summer and fall, the water park area is great for my kids to play in and lots of ducks to feed

Victoria Park opened in 1896, the park was built mostly on swampy farm land. The man-made lake is fed by Schneider Creek, surrounds three small islands, and is crossed by multiple bridges, one dating to the creation of the park. The park also contains the Victoria Park pavilion, the Victoria Park Gallery and Archives, a bandstand, and a historic boathouse, now a pub and music venue.

The Gaukel street entrance features a clock tower which was once atop the old Kitchener City Hall  (from 1924 and now site of Market Square Shopping Centre), and before that, the town's fire hall. It was moved to the park entrance and complemented with a fountain and a sculpture of luggage, by local artist Ernest Daetwyler, symbolizing the various waves of immigration that have contributed the city's history.

A cast-bronze statue of Queen Victoria by Cavaliere Raffaele Zaccaquini and a cannon are situated in the park. The statue was unveiled in May 1911, on Victoria Day on the ten year anniversary of her death. The Princess of Wales Chapter of the IODE raised the $6,000 needed for the monument.

In the fall of 2011, $10.1-million of restoration work on the park's lake was started, and in all 85,000 tonnes of sediment were removed from the lake bottom. Thousands of concrete and stone blocks were placed along the 2.2 kilometres of shoreline as a retaining wall to prevent erosion. While the overall area of the lake was slightly reduced, the waterway near the mouth of Schneider's creek at the north end of the park was widened to create a "fore bay" which slows the flow of water and allows sediment to settle in one place for easy removal.

Great park. Well maintained. Lots of Pokestops and gyms and a good variety of pokemon available here. There's always a good amount of people which can be good or bad, and there are usually tons of screaming hyper kids having fun at the kids area. My only gripe is that parking is extremely limited, which forces us to park on side streets near the park which probably annoys the heck out of the people who live around there. I also think they should up the amount of times someone comes out to clean the lake. A lot of plastic and trash accumulates at the waterfall reservoir collector area and it stagnates the water making it reek as well as encouraging mosquitos to breed rapidly.