Beautiful, but slightly hilly, park
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Date of visit: September 2025
I am a disabled person. I have experience of challenges around: accessing toilets and moving around.
I use or have experience of: disabled toilet, wheelchair
Overall Rating
Good
This is a really beautiful park with lots of green space, some interesting statues and structures, and a large pond. The entrances I saw were all step-free, with most of the paths being smooth concrete. It’s worth noting that the park itself is set on a large hill. As a result, some of the paths have a steep incline. The entrance I used had quite a severe incline up to the edge of the pond and I found it quite difficult to push myself up the hill in my manual wheelchair. Once you get to the pond, it seems like the park levels out more. It’s a really beautiful park which also has tennis courts, a café and in the southwest corner, the Weston Park museum. I definitely recommend a visit to this park, just make sure you have some extra power to manage the hills, whether that’s in the form of battery power or friends and family pushing power!
Disabled Access In and Around
Average
All the entrances and exits I saw were level with the street and step-free. As the park is set on a hill, I found that some of the paths leading into the park had quite severe inclines. They had tried to build the paths in a zig-zag pattern to decrease the severity of the incline, but it was still tough in some spots. However, the paths were all smooth concrete which meant it was very easy to navigate around the park. There was a large pond in one part of the park which had some wooden bridges across it. The pond was very beautiful and seemed to have a variety of ducks and fish living there. Towards the Weston Park museum there was a lot more green space with some people playing games and sports. There were also some memorials and statues in some areas. There were wooden benches placed in some spots around the park. You didn’t have to go too far before seeing another one. There was also a really pretty bandstand in the park but it did have steps to get into it. The museum had step-free access into it from the park and also had a café inside it. There was another café in the park but I didn’t see it on my visit.
Accessible facilities: Single-level venue, Seating at regular intervals, Step-free access to most areas
Parking & Transport
Average
I travelled to this place by walk or wheel
There isn’t any dedicated parking for this park or for the museum. For those wishing to drive, the closest car park is the Q-Park car park on Durham Road. They have 561 parking bays, including 32 accessible bays. There is a height limit of 2 metres. Those parking here can get a 25% discount if they are also visiting the museum, but this doesn’t apply to pre-booked spaces. The University of Sheffield tram stop is approximately 550 metres from the park. But this does depend which entrance you are using to access the park. From this tram stop you can get tram services on the Blue and Yellow lines. The Blue line provides trams from Malin Bridge to Halfway. The Yellow line provides trams from Middlewood to Meadowhall. On the south edge of the park there are two bus stops available. They are called Western Bank/Damer Street and Western Bank/Clarkson Street. From these stops you can get the 51, 52, and 52a buses. On the north edge of the park there are two more bus stops. They are both called Winter Street/Mushroom Lane with one on either side of the road for buses travelling in both directions. The buses available at these stops are: 10, 95, 97, and 98. From the stop on the opposite side of the road to the park, the 95s service is also available on school days.
Accessible Toilets
The closest toilets to this park were inside the Weston Park Museum which is free to enter. There is also a Changing Places toilet inside there.
Staff
I didn’t see any staff while I was at the park.
