Ormeau Park

Distance:

1.3 miles

Start Point:

J350734

Finish Point:

J350734

Point of interest:

Trees, ecotrail, flower beds, bandstand

Nearest town:

Ormeau, Belfast

OS map:

Sheet 15 + Belfast Street Finder

Terrain:

Tarmac paths, gradual hills

Route:

Beginning at the car park beside Ormeau Recreation Centre, take the tree-lined path to the right of the recreation centre, past the all weather pitches.

Keep right at the next two junctions. Continue along this path past mature trees and woodland copses. You will reach a crossroads. Go straight on. You will pass the former Superintendent’s House within a garden on your left.

Continue on until you pass a small shelter. Ahead will be two roads, take the second one on the right. This leads to the outside of the former walled garden.

Turn left, keeping the wall on your right, and then left again on to the main path leading from the entrance to the service yard. Follow this path. You will see the bandstand on your right. Follow the path to the right which leads past a second shelter, some flower beds and mature conifer trees. Just beyond these on your right is a small wildflower meadow.

Continue past a triangular rose bed on your left, but veer left at the next triangular flower bed, in which there stands a bell on a post.

Take the next right and then left to return to the car park.

Facilities:

Toilets at Ormeau Embankment and Recreation Centre. Refreshments available locally.

Accessible toilet facilities:

Yes

Accessible terrain:

Degree of difficulty -
Scooters: 1(easy);
Pushed wheelchairs: 1-2 (fairly easy)
Surfaces throughout are excellent with broad tarmac driveways criss-crossing the entire area

Accessible signage:

No - allow 1 hour scooters, 2 hours pushed wheelchair

Publication:

A Walk in the Park, Belfast City Council and
Out 'n' bout: A New Frontier- Shopmobility Belfast

Publication availability:

Belfast City Council Parks & Cemetries. Tel 02890726345 x6653, Shopmobility Belfast - 028 9080 8090

Getting to the start by public transport:

Car park at Ozone recreation centre – entrance off Ormeau Embankment. Metro Services: 7 to Ormeau Road or 78-79 to Ravenhill Road, 0.6 miles (0.9km) and 0.4 miles (0.65km) respectively from the starting point.