Things to Do in Tehran, Iran (2026)

City Park Amusement Park

City Park Amusement Park—known locally as Shahrbāzi-ye Pārak-e Shahr—tucks its fairground rides inside Park-e Shahr, Tehran's oldest public park, in the lively Sanglaj neighbourhood of District 12. It is a small, family-friendly pleasure ground rather than a mega-park: a cluster of classic carnival rides, kiddie attractions and games set beneath the park's tall plane and poplar trees, popular with parents bringing young children for an evening of low-key fun. Its real strength is the setting. The rides are only one piece of a 25-hectare park packed with things to do—boating on a decades-old artificial lake, a bird garden and a birdwatching hide, an aquarium, the Peace Museum and shaded promenades—so a fairground visit naturally becomes a full afternoon or evening out for the whole family.

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Chitgar Forest Park

Chitgar Forest Park is the big green exhale of western Tehran—a planted woodland so vast and so full of pine-scented trails that locals call it one of the capital's main 'lungs.' Tucked into District 22 against the Tehran–Karaj freeway, it rolls across hills studded with conifers and broadleaf trees, threaded with cycling lanes, shaded picnic glades and playgrounds, with a wide artificial lake shimmering just to its north. This is not a tidy ornamental garden but a genuine forest built for a city: created in the 1960s to green the western edge of Tehran, filter its air and blunt the dry winds blowing in from the plains. Today it is a sprawling, low-cost day-out where families lay out cloths under the trees, cyclists chase the ridge trails, and evenings drift toward the lakefront cafés. Come for the scale and the variety: a few hours of cycling or a lazy picnic is easily combined with a stroll along the neighbouring Persian Gulf Martyrs Lake, making Chitgar one of the easiest and most rewarding half-days anywhere in Tehran.

A little more
of Tehran.

City Park Amusement Park

Chitgar Forest Park

A little more
of Tehran.

City Park Amusement Park

Chitgar Forest Park