Lochotínský park, Park in Plzeň, Czech Republic

Lochotínský park is a public park in Plzeň, Czech Republic, spread across a hillside along Karlovarská třída avenue. It features paths, terraces, green areas, a Neoclassical-style pavilion, and an open-air amphitheater.

In 1828 Martin Kopecký, Plzeň's last royal mayor, founded a joint-stock company to build a spa at Lochotín, the first of its kind in Bohemia. Park work began in 1832 with Count Karel Chotek contributing to the land purchase, and the spa opened the following year with drinking cures and mud and water baths. Sold in 1849 to the Měšťanský pivovar, it gained the Císařský sál in 1888–89, was declared a protected area in 1984 and a natural monument in 1997.

The park was a centre of Czech patriotic life: in 1841 it hosted Plzeň's first Czech ball, a year after Prague's, and three years later a Czech-only library and magazine reading room opened in the spa. The Lochotín Pavilion, once used for spa treatments and balls, still stands.

The park is located along Karlovarská třída and can be reached on foot from the city center. A visit works well in the warmer months, when the paths are easy to walk and the amphitheater may be hosting events.

The spa was reached from 1899 by František Křižík's electric tram; trolleybuses replaced trams after the war, and trams returned to Lochotín on 1 September 1980. The Kopecký spring, once part of the spa, now flows on the grounds of the nearby hospital and was diverted into the sewer during construction of the Vinice housing estate.