Prague's cobbles and hills are hard work behind a stroller, so we picked the outings with smooth paths, lifts or a ride up the hill. Here's what we checked, from the flat lawns and pond boardwalks of Stromovka to the Petřín funicular that skips the climb, plus big museums for rainy days and riverside spots where a nap can happen on the move.
Stromovka began in the 13th century as a royal game reserve and is now an English-style landscape park: lawns, old trees and four ponds on the Vltava floodplain. A long network of paths runs through it, good for walks, bikes and scooters.
Playgrounds are spread across the park, and the lawns are open for picnics. The Governor's Summerhouse, a Neo-Gothic summer palace, stands inside the park.
Letná Park spreads across 25 hectares of lawns, mature trees and a long plane-tree avenue on the hill above the Vltava, with wide views over the Old Town and its bridges. Kids get a children's playground, room for inline skating and skateboarding, and the giant Metronome on the old Stalin monument plinth.
By the National Technical Museum, a wooden carousel from 1892 still runs, its horses covered in real horse hide.
Kampa Park spreads 2.65 hectares of lawns and old trees across an island between the Vltava and the Čertovka, a narrow man-made channel. Kids can run the grass, use the playground, and spot the big wooden mill wheel of the old Grand Priory Mill on the Čertovka.
Museum Kampa's giant chair sculpture stands above the river, and Charles Bridge crosses the island's northern tip.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
A farmers' market on Náplavka, the stone embankment along the Vltava below Vyšehrad. Stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, pastries, mushrooms, fresh fish, cheeses, free-range eggs and handicrafts.
It suits families who like to graze: kids can snack their way along the stalls and watch the swans at the water's edge. It is popular with locals and visitors alike, so expect a busy embankment.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
A walled early Baroque palace garden from the 1620s, now the garden of the Czech Senate. Peacocks wander the gravel paths, and a pond holds an island with a Hercules fountain. Beside the frescoed open-air hall sits a grotto wall covered in stucco stalactites, plus an aviary. Bronze copies of Adriaen de Vries' Greek gods stand around the flower beds.
Summer brings concerts and theater in the open-air hall.
Prague's cobbles and hills are hard work behind a stroller, so we picked the outings with smooth paths, lifts or a ride up the hill. Here's what we checked, from the flat lawns and pond boardwalks of Stromovka to the Petřín funicular that skips the climb, plus big museums for rainy days and riverside spots where a nap can happen on the move.
Stromovka began in the 13th century as a royal game reserve and is now an English-style landscape park: lawns, old trees and four ponds on the Vltava floodplain. A long network of paths runs through it, good for walks, bikes and scooters.
Playgrounds are spread across the park, and the lawns are open for picnics. The Governor's Summerhouse, a Neo-Gothic summer palace, stands inside the park.
Letná Park spreads across 25 hectares of lawns, mature trees and a long plane-tree avenue on the hill above the Vltava, with wide views over the Old Town and its bridges. Kids get a children's playground, room for inline skating and skateboarding, and the giant Metronome on the old Stalin monument plinth.
By the National Technical Museum, a wooden carousel from 1892 still runs, its horses covered in real horse hide.
Kampa Park spreads 2.65 hectares of lawns and old trees across an island between the Vltava and the Čertovka, a narrow man-made channel. Kids can run the grass, use the playground, and spot the big wooden mill wheel of the old Grand Priory Mill on the Čertovka.
Museum Kampa's giant chair sculpture stands above the river, and Charles Bridge crosses the island's northern tip.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
A farmers' market on Náplavka, the stone embankment along the Vltava below Vyšehrad. Stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, pastries, mushrooms, fresh fish, cheeses, free-range eggs and handicrafts.
It suits families who like to graze: kids can snack their way along the stalls and watch the swans at the water's edge. It is popular with locals and visitors alike, so expect a busy embankment.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
A walled early Baroque palace garden from the 1620s, now the garden of the Czech Senate. Peacocks wander the gravel paths, and a pond holds an island with a Hercules fountain. Beside the frescoed open-air hall sits a grotto wall covered in stucco stalactites, plus an aviary. Bronze copies of Adriaen de Vries' Greek gods stand around the flower beds.
Summer brings concerts and theater in the open-air hall.
