This website provides a comprehensive overview of Cape Town's parks and cemeteries, and a schedule of related programmes and events organised by the department. Booking information is also supplied for your convenience. 

Cape Town's parks are well known for their beauty and are much loved by residents and visitors alike. They cater for nearly every taste – history lovers and tourists enjoy the Company's Garden, Arderne Gardens is a favourite venue for wedding photographs, theatre lovers delight in the productions staged in the picturesque Maynardville Park, children run free at Wynberg Park, and rose lovers revel in Durbanville Rose Garden. Families and communities typically use the nearby community parks that are scattered throughout the city to escape the pressures of city living, and nature lovers enjoy the landscaped recreation areas alongside water bodies and rivers.    

All of the city’s parks, as well as its cemeteries (of which there are 30), are managed by the City of Cape Town’s City Parks Department, which also assumes responsibility for:

• Playgrounds
• Cemeteries and crematoriums
  
• Landscaped road reserves: verges, centre medians, traffic intersections and scenic drives
  
• Planting and maintenance of trees
  
• Sand dune reclamation in urban areas
  
• Arbor Week
  
• Environmental education
  
• Public and private partnerships with NGOs and CBOs
  
• Maintenance of parks through community participation
  
• Protection of biodiversity
  
• Promotion of the city as a tourist destination

Because the maintenance of parks and cemeteries is labour intensive, City Parks plays an important role in the alleviation of poverty through job creation, and promotes awareness of HIV and Aids via specifically organised initiatives, such as the tying red ribbons around trees on World AIDS day.

The department’s vision is to be recognised as the city's leading provider of quality parks and dignified cemeteries, thereby contributing towards a better life for all.