We visited Tivoli Gardens from mid-afternoon to mid-evening one day in Copenhagen. Tivoli Gardens is the world’s second oldest amusement park, opened in 1843. As it turns out, the world’s oldest amusement park is also in Denmark. Tivoli is one of the world’s most famous amusement parks and I understand that it served as a model for Disneyland. There were many striking resemblances to Disneyland. The park has a good mix of attractions, gardens, amusement rides, games, excellent restaurants, bars, a large concert hall, an open-air theater, multiple music venues, lakes and water features, boats, beautiful flowers and landscaping, a Saturday evening fireworks display, and colorful nighttime lighting. I didn’t see any parking other than a few street parking spaces because they don’t need any. The park is in central Copenhagen and accessible by foot, bicycle, bus, boat, and train. Tivoli also has special open park periods around holidays with special decorations and events just for each holiday. The park is 21 acres so it’s big enough to have a wide variety of events and have them not interfere with each other.

The first photo was not the park entrance but around the side of the block from the entrance. I just thought that this looked more like it was from 1843 when the park was opened.

Amusement rides were both old and new. I particularly liked the giraffe on this carousel ride. It had an attached six foot ladder for two people to climb up and ride the giraffe. Tivoli also has three roller coaster rides including the Rutsjebanen which was built in 1913 so it’s over 100 years old and still running. They also have one of the tallest carousels in the world. They also have a hot-air balloon Ferris wheel. In addition, they have many newer modern amusement rides.

The third photo shows flowers, landscaping, water features, and an open-air stage for music or other performances.

One thing that really impressed me about Tivoli is that despite being a big business, with 4.6 million visitors in 2017, we could find places for a couple or a family to be off on their own to relax for a bit. This cozy little spot in the fourth photo was just one of the many such places. I can’t recall such places in Disneyland or other US amusement parks. I liked this.

The last photo is just one from our evening walk around the park. The park was both well-lit and colorful.