Jogging

Starting at the S-Bahn Station Treptower Park over Puschkinallee to the Soviet War Memorial, this diverse jogging route crosses through one of Berlin's most beautiful park.

Jogging around Müggelsee offers you 14 kilometres of jogging fun on paths through woods and parks.

Moabit's Fritz-Schloss-Park offers a mix of jogging route and fitness trail.

At Schleusenufer 4 in Kreuzberg, adidas shows what fitness looks like when a sports brand gets serious: The adidas SPORTS BASE BERLIN combines a weight room, outdoor areas, community runs, and its own kitchen across 1,500 square meters. Those who sweat here do so with like-minded people and professional coaching.

Volkspark Friedrichshain is Berlin's first municipal park, opened in 1848 and now covering 53 hectares. It features Ludwig Hoffmann's Fairy Tale Fountain, the two rubble hills Mont Klamott, and one of the city's few official barbecue areas. Among Berlin's parks, it offers the densest mix of history and everyday life.

Between the banks of the Spree and the Soviet Memorial in Alt-Treptow lies one of Berlin's largest parks. Gustav Meyer designed the 88-hectare park starting in 1876. Today, it hosts Germany's largest Soviet war cemetery, the Archenhold Observatory, and the Zenner guesthouse from 1822. World history and sunbathing lawns on the same stroll.

The Großer Tiergarten spans 207 hectares between the Brandenburg Gate and the Zoological Garden, making it Berlin's largest park. Peter Joseph Lenné transformed the old electoral hunting ground into a landscape park starting in 1818; today, the Victory Column, English Garden, New Lake, and Bellevue Palace are located within it. No other park in Berlin covers so much at once.

The jogging track in the Großer Tiergarten is not only very spacious, but incorporates also a sightseeing programme which make the track also interesting for tourists alike.

Hohenschönhausen's jogging route runs past Orankesee, Faulensee and Obersee.

Where Berliners have been getting their bodies in shape since the 70s: The Trimm-Dich-Pfad (Fitness Trail) in Grunewald, Dahlem, is an outdoor fitness classic and forest walk rolled into one. Free, in the middle of the forest, and back in shape after modernization.

One of Kreuzberg's most popular jogging routes runs parallel with Landwehrkanal, also suited for beginners.

Tempelhofer Feld in Tempelhof is Berlin's legendary open space, where former runways have become a skating track. On a 4.5 km circular route between wide skies and the old airport building, inline skaters roll with a good tailwind through one of Europe's largest city parks.

This jogging track runs along the North side of Tegeler See.

The jogging trail around the Waldbühne begins on Glockenturmstraße in Westend and leads through Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald, a forty-hectare dry valley on the edge of Grunewald. The full loop measures six kilometers over gravel, forest paths, and stairs. To alleviate heartbreak, the mental space this route creates is particularly crucial.

Spanning approximately 70 hectares in Wedding, this is one of Berlin's largest and least crowded public parks. The garden monument from 1929 includes a deer enclosure with fallow deer, three small lakes, and an open-air stage with 4,000 seats, which hosts an open-air cinema in summer. Among Berlin's parks, this is the most relaxed large-scale area.

In Gesundbrunnen, one of Berlin's most historically rich parks stretches across 29 hectares. Gustav Meyer started designing Volkspark Humboldthain in 1869. Today, it includes a rose garden with 15,000 roses of 70 varieties and the ruins of a flak tower, above which rises the 85-meter-high Humboldthöhe. This scope is quite unique for parks in Berlin.

Behind the baroque Charlottenburg Palace lies one of Berlin's oldest garden complexes, laid out for Sophie Charlotte from 1695 and opened in 1699. Siméon Godeau designed the parterre in the French style, and Lenné later transformed it into a landscape garden with a carp pond, mausoleum, and Luiseninsel (Luise Island). Among Berlin's parks, this is the most formal.

The jogging track through Volkspark Jungfernheide starts at the entrance of the public bathing beach.

If jogging through a park is just too boring for you, what about jogging the Berlin City Tour for a change?

Viktoriapark in Kreuzberg spans 12.8 hectares around the Kreuzberg hill, which, at 66 meters, is Berlin's highest inner-city elevation. At the top stands Schinkel's cast-iron National Monument from 1821, and on the north side, a 24-meter-high waterfall plunges down the slope at 13,000 liters per minute. No other park in Berlin has such a significant difference in elevation.

You will be surprised to find a nice landscape of forests, parks and lakes, which joggers frequently use, in the heart of Berlin-Wedding.

On the disused Tempelhof Airport, 303 hectares of open space have been open as a park since 2010. Two two-kilometer-long runways, a six-kilometer circular path, community gardens, and a bird sanctuary for the skylark share the area. Among Berlin's parks, Tempelhofer Feld is the largest and the flattest.

Located on former railway grounds between Kreuzberg and Schöneberg, one of Berlin's most visited parks has existed since 2013. Rusty track remnants, buffer stops, and birch groves characterize the East Park, while beach volleyball courts are found under the U-Bahn viaducts in the West Park. Among Berlin's parks, Park am Gleisdreieck is the most awarded.

Görlitzer Park, known to all as Görli, covers 14 hectares of former railway land in Kreuzberg SO 36. A children's farm, pirate playground, sledding hill, and the free sports program SpOrt365 share the area with the fence that the city has been disputing for years. No other park in Berlin is as much a living space and a subject of discussion at the same time.