The forest in the Prater park – Escape to nature in Vienna

The Prater is the behemoth of all of Vienna’s parks. The 6-million square meter park (think 2,420 football fields) has plenty of green meadows for you to lay down your blanket, or your lover. One thing that few know is about the great nature escape of a small forest to get lost in up near the Lusthaus coffeehouse end of the Prater Hauptallee boulevard. Don’t expect something big when heading here, but you will find yourself wandering alone here most times of the day, besides the odd person riding a horse (the Fiaker – horse and cart – horse stables are close by). It’s a great central urban escape.

Where: in the Prater, up near the Lusthaus

How to get here? You can catch the tram Nr. 1 to the end station, Prater Hauptallee, and walk up the boulevard (in the opposite direction of Praterstern) and enter the forest near the Lusthaus coffeehouse.