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Natureandheritagetrails NORTHERN EXPLORER EASTERN COASTAL CENTRAL URBAN Woodlands Bedok Reservoir Park Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West 1 Waterfront 1 This stretch links Pasir Ris Park to East Coast Park and features 1 The 21ha park along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 has a secondary Parks and recreation Instagram-worthy views of the sea and other water bodies. At forest and a 120-step staircase, which leads to a plaza offering Singapore’s northernmost park offers unobstructed 41.7ha, Bedok Reservoir Park has paved and dirt running tracks sweeping views of the surrounds. The neighbouring Garden views of the entire coastal and regularly sees joggers and sports enthusiasts go through East’s rubber and nutmeg trees are reminders of early park and the Strait of their paces. immigrants who worked in rubber plantations where Ang Mo Kio Hop on a bicycle or lace up those trainers and spend the month-long school holidays rediscovering nature Johor. Its 400m jetty, the New Town now stands. longest in the country, trails in your own backyard. is a haven for shing enthusiasts and Measuring more than 360km long, the entire park connector network threads together almost every part of shutterbugs. Its 1.5km-long the island to parks and recreational areas near housing estates. The trails are designed to encourage people waterfront promenade has interesting trees to slow down and appreciate the myriad sensory delights, from flowing rivers to thriving flora and fauna. and plants such as the Chantal Sajan sea hibiscus, sea almond and tembusu. Senior Correspondent Chantal Sajan recommends five loops to check out Woodlands Waterfront 1 Woodlands WESTERN ADVENTURE LEGEND Admiralty North Park 2 Sembawang Admiralty Pang Sua Park PEDESTRIAN ROUTE Canberra 1 Park connector Woodlands Connector network loops Town Garden Designed as a scenic 6km Woodlands Bishan-Ang Mo Kio connector, this is a go-to Western Marsiling South 2 for spotting birds such as Punggol Park Adventure Yishun the majestic white-bellied BUKIT TIMAH Waterway Park One of the most stunning sea eagle. There are also North-eastern EXPRESSWAY Woodlands features of this 62ha park is two buttery gardens its naturalised waterway, Riverine Khatib Yishun Park Punggol where you can spot the TAMPINES previously an old concrete Point Park 3 Common Grass Yellow and EXPRESSWAY Coney Island Park canal. National water agency Plain Tiger butteries. Northern Explorer PUB and the National Parks Sengkang Board converted a stretch of Pang Sua Central Catchment Lower Riverside Eastern Coastal Nature Reserve Seletar the Kallang River as part of Park Connector 1 Reservoir Park Punggol drainage improvement works, Yew Tee Upper Seletar Changi Point Central Urban resulting in a 3km river with Bukit Batok Town Park and Nature Park Reservoir Lorong Halus Coastal Walk grassy banks, home to an 2 Sengkang 2 The 42ha Bukit Batok Town Park (below) along Bukit Batok East SELETAR Kampong Park Connector array of ora and fauna. Ang Mo Kio Buangkok Avenue 5 is fondly referred to as Little Guilin because it EXPRESSWAY Lorong Buangkok PARKLAND Choa Chu Kang Town Garden 1 resembles China’s famed Guilin limestone landscape. The smaller Zhonghua West Bukit Batok Nature Park, developed on an abandoned quarry Pasir Ris Park 4 Changi site, offers serene views on meandering footpaths and Bukit Panjang 1 Park 2 Toa Payoh Town Park undulating terrain for a good workout. MRT STATION Beach Park 3 Lower Peirce Ang Mo Kio Hougang Pasir Ris This 4.8ha park in one of Singapore’s oldest satellite towns was a Bukit Batok Reservoir popular venue in the 1970s and 1980s for wedding photography Town Park 2 Punggol 2 and remains a draw for joggers, cyclists and leisure walkers. Tampines Its Observation Tower was awarded conservation status by the Jurong Bukit Gombak Park at 2 Dairy Farm Bishan- Hougang East Coast Urban Redevelopment Authority in 2009. LEISURELY CHANGI Park Connector Hillview Bukit Batok Nature Park Bright Hill Ang Mo Tampines Tampines Park TO JURONG 90KM West East WHOLE DAY 2 Bukit Timah Kio Park START Lakeside Chinese Bedok CYCLING ROUTE Garden Nature Reserve Changi MacRitchie Reservoir Park 1 Simei Upper Changi Boon Lay Reservoir Bishan Tai Seng Beauty World Bukit Batok Geylang Bedok Toa Payoh Toa Payoh North Expo Pioneer Nature Park 3 Bahru Bedok PAN-ISLAND Town Park Eunos Reservoir Jurong EXPRESSWAY END East Mattar Jurong Bedok EAST COAST Botanic Gardens Kembangan PARKWAY Boon Keng Paya Lebar Stadium NORTH-EASTERN RIVERINE AYER RAJAH Kallang EXPRESSWAY Dakota Some park facilities are closed due Kampong Lorong to the current heightened alert. 1 The National Parks Board advises Mountbatten Buangkok CENTRAL the public to mask up and keep to a Changi Beach Park and East Coast Park Trek back in time to group of up to two persons when EXPRESSWAY 2 Singapore of the visiting parks. Check East Coast Parkland While East Coast is a hive of mid-1900s at this safedistparks.nparks.gov.sg Park Green activity, with features such as the kampung (Malay for for regular updates on Cyclist Park and Coastal “village”), probably the last crowd levels in parks. PlayGrove (right), Changi Beach of its kind, situated off Yio (below) has a laid-back vibe. The Chu Kang Road. It has park draws those who enjoy a about 25 single-storey walk along the sandy beaches wooden houses nestled amid swaying coconut palms. between landed properties Camping is not allowed during the Punggol and Housing Board blocks. current heightened alert. 4 Park at Hougang A 15-minute walk from Lorong Halus Park Connector Coney Island Hougang or 2 3 Buangkok This 3km stretch (below) connects Pasir Ris and Punggol, and Park MRT stations, runs through Pasir Ris Farmway, which used to be dotted with The 81ha park is the park has pet and sh farms. It also links Pasir Ris and Coney Island parks, conceived as an a 5ha pond giving pedestrians and cyclists stunning views of Serangoon ecologically sustainable and different Reservoir and Lorong Halus Wetland. green lung. Its signage, zones for seats and boardwalk children to are made from wood Admiralty Park play and the recycled from uprooted 2 Located in Woodlands, this is the largest park in the north. It is elderly to casuarina trees. Coney built on hilly terrain with the scenic Sungei Cina as a main water stretch and Island is also home to body. Its 20ha nature area features a mix of secondary forest, exercise. about 80 species of mangrove, riverine and open grassland habitats, and is home to birds, some of which more than 100 species of ora and fauna. are critically endangered. Visit the TEXT: CHANTAL SAJAN Sources: NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD, NPARKS PHOTOS: NPARKS, JOYCE FANG, KUA CHEE SIONG, ALPHONSUS CHERN, BERITA HARIAN, ZAOBAO, ST FILE STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS island via bridges from Punggol Promenade and Pasir Ris Coast Industrial Park 6. Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park .
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