Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Park
In Vipin Khand, Gomti Nagar, the park with the lake and the jogging tracks is Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Park. Locals say Lohia Park. LDA built it in 2007, about 76 acres, four courtyards, four gates. It is the older Gomti Nagar park, the one office-walkers mean when they have not gone out as far as JM Park. It is not Janeshwar Mishra Park, which is much larger and sits in Gomti Nagar Extension. It is not the Indira Gandhi Planetarium, which is at Surajkund on Nabiullah Road, a different address entirely.
History
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia (1910-1967) was a socialist, a parliamentarian, and a Lucknow name as well as a national one. LDA named this park for him when Gomti Nagar still felt new. Wikipedia and LDA-linked descriptions agree on 76 acres and 2007. Four courtyards open to a Kota-stone spine about a kilometre long, light-beam paths, synthetic and sand jogging tracks, an acupressure strip, a tiled lake of about 15,000 square metres with floating fountains, a fish-and-duck pond, an amphitheatre, a flower garden with a baradari, and a Lohia statue by the water. Six columns along a semi-circular path remember socialist colleagues; four tall columns nod to Lohia’s four-pillar idea. Tree lists run to dozens of species. Believe the shade. Count the labels if you like.
The park has kept adding pieces. Times of India reported in 2026 that LDA had set user fees for Oxygen Sports Arena at Gate 3, built where an artificial water body had been, with skating, pickleball, tennis, badminton and box cricket as paid extras. Those rates are for the arena, not for a stroll. Arena users, the report said, would not pay the general park ticket on top. Whether every court is open the morning you visit is a gate question.
What to do
Walk. Jog. Sit by the lake. Children use the swings. The open gym is a handful of machines, not a membership club. The amphitheatre is for booked events; LDA has long listed hire charges, which is a reminder that this lawn is civic property with a rate card, not a private maidan. Evening fountains are the local postcard when they run. Birders and photographers work the water. Food is whatever stall the gate has allowed that month. This is a neighbourhood park at city scale, not a memorial like Ambedkar Memorial Park.
Do not come here looking for a planetarium show. Do not come here expecting JM Park’s 376 acres. If you want crafts after the walk, Awadh Shilp Gram is further along the Shaheed Path side of town, on days when a fair is on. If you want a memorial hour, Ambedkar Park is the stone neighbour. If you want a forest picnic, that is Kukrail, not this tiled lake.
Visiting
LDA runs the park. Hindustan reported on 9 October 2024 that the gate ticket here and at Begum Hazrat Mahal Park had gone from Rs 10 to Rs 15, with monthly passes Rs 150, annual Rs 1,500, and free entry listed for visitors over 60 and children under 12. That remains the most recent LDA-linked tariff we could read. Pay the board. Commercial pages print opening from about 5 or 6 am to 9 or 10 pm; LDA’s own site did not offer a live clock on 28 August 2026. Confirm at the courtyard you use. Sports-arena hours and fees are separate; Times of India quoted morning-to-evening slots for those courts.
Vipin Khand / Vinay Khand, Gomti Nagar, is the address for drivers. Metro riders use Gomti Nagar area stations and an auto for the last stretch. Parking sits at the courtyards and fills on holidays. The park is open all week in ordinary times. After rain, tiled edges can be slick. Morning is for walkers; dusk is for families.
Nearby
Ambedkar Memorial Park is the stone memorial in the same part of Gomti Nagar. Janeshwar Mishra Park is the much bigger Extension outing. Lucknow Zoo and the State Museum are a ride west to Banarasi Bagh. Shaheed Path leads toward Awadh Shilp Gram when a market is on. For a wider list, see Lucknow places.
Come in winter for the tracks, in the evening for the lake. Call it Lohia Park with the auto-wallah; he will not take you to the planetarium by mistake if you add Vipin Khand.