Phoenix Park,

Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Visited July 23, 2022

Using either of these in Google Maps will get you there: Saint James (Part of Phoenix Park), Dublin, Ireland or Phoenix Park, Dublin 8, Ireland (I walked from my hotel but there were parking lots off the main road through the park.)


60s degrees Fahrenheit, rain for most of the hour, cloudy 8:05 AM-9:10 AM

I did not see restroom facilities but I was not looking for them, either.

I saw a number of people walking their dogs. The sign in one of the pics said to keep them on leads but not everyone saw that sign, apparently.

I visited this park in hopes of seeing the deer herd but it is a large park and I did not see them but I did see evidence that they do visit the section of the park where I was walking. I walked 1.76 miles while exploring the southwestern trails in the park. The trails were paved and wide enough to pass other visitors in the park. I passed a handful of people walking, a few people walking their dogs, one lady walking and having a phone conversation, and one person running. The stairs were a bit slippery in the rain but I had my grippy hiking shoes on. Overall, I found the park to be a very peaceful, beautiful oasis in Dublin and if I was ever going to visit Dublin again, I would schedule a day to visit the entire park.

It was a muggy day and I felt boiled in my rain jacket. No long pants would be needed for the paved paths I followed in the lower, western section of this large park.

Parking: is available

There was trash along the trails and in the duck pond. (Just a thought that cleaning the duck pond would be a great public service task for the local judges to hand out. I felt so bad for the young ones in the nest sitting with people's snack wrappers.)

There were some mosquitos but not too bad considering I did not buy bug spray when I arrived in Ireland.

I saw a variety of wildflowers, trees, birds, ducks, and swans.

For more information: https://phoenixpark.ie/

Entrance at southwest tip of the park. R109 and the River Liffey was to my left. The road that goes through the middle of the park is Chesterfield Avenue.

I took the paved path to the right as soon as I entered.

I did not go up these. I followed the curvy path that in the pic to the right. There was a car using it so I guess it was more of a road than a path.

Phoenix Park playground

Once I saw the Wellington Monument (one of the largest obelisks in Europe when it was built), I aimed toward that before circling back toward the gate where I entered.

Looking back toward the direction of the gate where I entered.

Chesterfield Avenue

The Wellington Monument. It was huge. It is hard to get the scale here but realize those tree behind it are full grown HUGE trees.

Phoenix Park Tea Room

Gate 8 of the Dublin Zoo

Gate 8 of the Dublin Zoo

Bees have made a home of this dead tree. They were flying in and out of the holes in it.

The evidence that the deer do come this way sometimes.

This water feature is just northish of the duck pond.

I have learned that this unique tree is a monkey puzzle tree. I saw another one at Kylemore Abbey in the west of Ireland and a huge one at the Glencree Visitor Center (southish of Dublin).

I have learned that these giants are artichoke blooms.