Municipal forest


A municipal forest or municipal woodland is a forest or wood owned by a town or city. Such woods often have a higher density of leisure facilities like play parks, restaurants and cafes, bridleways, cycle paths and footpaths. Unlike an urban forest, which is located largely or entirely within an urban area and may be privately owned, a municipal forest is publicly owned and may well be outside the city or town to which it belongs. Most urban forests will be municipal forests, but many municipal forests are non-urban.

Europe

Germany

In Germany municipal forests are usually corporate forests in accordance with Section 3 of the Federal Forest Act. Among the best known municipal forests in Germany are the Tiergarten in Berlin, the Berlin City Forest which includes the Grunewald and Köpenick Forest, the Frankfurt [City Forest], the Dresden Heath and the Rostock Heath, which are some of the largest in the world. The Duisburg City Forest, together with the Broich-Speldorf Forest in Mülheim an der Ruhr, the Sportpark Duisburg and the Duisburg Huckinger Mark form a contiguous forest area of about 3,000 ha. The Leipzig Riverside Forest is one of the largest surviving riparian forests in Central Europe.

List of municipal forests in Germany

France

Austria

Switzerland

United States