Olympic Forest Park, Beijing

Name: Olympic Forest Park
Address: Beijing, China

#70 among attractions in Beijing

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The Olympic Forest Park is a large, man-made nature park situated at the north end of the Olympic Green in Beijing. Built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the park has two parts: the southern part is oval in shape and features Aohai lake in the center, and the northern side has a mountain that gives an excellent view of this part of the city. The northern part is outside of the 5th Ring Road. The park was designed by Sasaki and implemented by the Tsinghua Landscape Design Institute. ()

Local name: 奧林匹克森林公園 Created: 2008Elevation: 151 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 40°1'6"N, 116°23'13"E

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朝阳区 (chao yang qu)Beijing China

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Olympic Forest Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Museum of the Communist Party of China, Olympic Green Tennis Center, Olympic Park Observation Tower, National Zoological Museum of China.

1.1 miS
Museum
Museum of the Communist Party of China, Beijing
29 min walk • The Museum of the Chinese Communist Party is located at the intersection of Beichen East Road and Datun North Road, in Chaoyang District of Beijing, China. It is adjacent to the Olympic Green. It is a public institution directly under the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
0.7 miW
Sport venue, Sport, Tennis
Olympic Green Tennis Center, Beijing
19 min walk • The National Tennis Center, is a tennis center located in the Olympic Green. It opened on 1 October 2007. It hosted the tennis preliminaries and finals of singles and doubles for men and women at the Beijing 2008 Olympics as well as the Paralympic wheelchair tennis competitions.
0.8 miS
Tower
Olympic Park Observation Tower, Beijing
21 min walk • The Beijing Olympic Tower is located on Kehui South Road, part of the Olympic Green in the Chaoyang District of Beijing, China. Construction began in 2011, three years after the 2008 Summer Olympics; it was completed in 2014, and opened on August 8, 2015.
1.3 miSW
Museum, Natural history museum, Science museum
National Zoological Museum of China, Beijing
34 min walk • The National Zoological Museum of China is located on the campus of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in the Chaoyang District. It is the largest zoological museum in China. It has three floors of exhibits that surround a central exhibit area that contains a large hanging whale skeleton.
1 miS
Pedestrian area with iconic stadiums
Olympic Green, Beijing
27 min walk • The Olympic Green is an Olympic Park in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Since then, the streets around the park have been used for an exhibition street race of the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2011, after a race at Goldenport Park Circuit in the vicinity.
0.9 miW
Sport venue, Sport
National Speed Skating Oval, Beijing
22 min walk • The National Speed Skating Oval is a speed skating arena which is the only new venue built on Beijing's Olympic Green for the Winter Olympics. It hosts the speed skating competitions at the 2022 Winter Olympics.