Golden Acre Park

A popular park, well known for its circular lakeside walk, wonderful gardens and popular tea rooms. 

Location

Golden Acre park is six miles North of Leeds city centre on the A660 between Adel and Bramhope. You can find directions on Google Maps.

Parking

There are free car parks off Otley Road and Arthington Road.

Buses

Visit West Yorkshire Metro to find bus information.

Cafe opening hours

The cafe is open from Monday to Sunday 10am to 3:30pm during the winter (GMT).

Summer opening hours (BST) for the cafe are Monday to Friday 10am to 4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm.

Attractions and facilities

View a map of the park (JPG, 60KB).

The park contains:

• gardens and plant collections
• parkland, lake, streams, ponds and woodland
• a cafe with outdoor seating facilities and wheelchair access
• public toilets, including a changing places facility
  

Disabled access

There are six disabled parking bays in the car park off the A660.

The main circular route around the park and lake and the demonstration gardens are well maintained and fairly flat.

Motorised scooters are available to hire for free from the cafe. You must be pre-book before 10am on the day, to book call 0113 535 2502.

Accessible toilets are available in cafe and in the public toilet block next to cafe. The cafe is wheelchair accessible.

Events

Bands play in Golden Acre Park on Sundays regularly throughout summer. For more information go to Leeds International Concert Season.

Volunteering

If you would like to volunteer in the grounds of Golden Acre Park to assist with gardening, nature conservation and grounds maintenance tasks, whilst helping to protect the natural beauty and improve the facilities of the park. Please contact james.davies@leeds.gov.uk.