Parc de l'Épervière, Park in Valence, France

Parc de l'Épervière is a park beside the Rhône River in Valence featuring wooded sections, fruit orchards, an arboretum, and flowering meadows. The grounds showcase diverse plantings and natural landscape features throughout the entire site.

In 1158 the Abbey of Saint-Ruf moved from Avignon to the Île de l'Épervière under Abbot Raymond, and its canons stayed nearly four centuries; only ruins remain south of Parc Jouvet. In the 1960s Valence planned an outdoor leisure base here that was never finished, and a second phase in 1986 added roads, car parks, green spaces and a landing stage. The 7-hectare park was inaugurated on 26 June 2016 under mayor Nicolas Daragon, with the agglomeration investing about 16 million euros.

The name Épervière comes from the former island in the Rhône where the Abbey of Saint-Ruf moved in 1158. The park hosts the Fête de l'Épervière, first held in 1988, and the ViaRhôna cycling route, which since 2011 links Tain-l'Hermitage to the Épervière leisure area along the river.

The park is reached from avenue de Provence on the east or by the Rhône-side promenade from parc Jouvet on the west, where the ViaRhôna cycle route passes; an information panel marks the Bourg-lès-Valence hydroelectric plant. The 7-hectare grounds border the Rhône opposite the Ardèche hills and the Crussol ruins, with a 32,000 m² water body behind a 400 m dike.

The aquatic centre opened in 2019 on a 16,000 m² site where the bowling alley and conference centre once stood, with about 200 parking spaces added. It was the largest part of the site's redevelopment, costing €15 million of the roughly €16 million invested by Valence Romans Agglo and the city.