Gödöllő Hills Protected Landscape Area, Protected landscape area in Pest County, Hungary.

Gödöllő Hills Protected Landscape Area covers 11,996 hectares, of which 3,128 are strictly protected, in Pest County east of Gödöllő. Its loess hills, 100 to 200 metres high, alternate steep slopes and narrow valleys with broad valleys and sandy steppe patches. It forms an east-west watershed: streams west of it reach the Danube, those east reach the Tisza.

The hills were a royal hunting ground as early as the reign of Matthias Corvinus, and later passed with Gödöllő Castle to Franz Joseph I. For long periods the area was closed to the public and reserved for state leaders, which kept its game stock and habitats largely intact. It now falls under the Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate, with 11,996 hectares protected and 3,128 hectares under stricter protection.

Máriabesnyő, in the southern part of the hills near Gödöllő, holds one of Hungary's largest pilgrimage churches. The shrine church is the area's main religious gathering point, and pilgrims come to it from across the country. The surrounding forests also hold Sarmatian, Scythian and Avar cemeteries, earthworks and ramparts near Valkó, Szada and Pécel, and traces of the Csörsz-árok earthwork can still be made out.

The protected area stretches roughly from Erdőkertes to Pécel, east of Gödöllő, and is managed by the Duna–Ipoly National Park Directorate. Parts of the former government hunting ground are still fenced off, so keep to marked paths. The hills rise only 100–200 m, but steep slopes and narrow, cool valleys make walking slower than the modest heights suggest.

The warm south- and east-facing slopes carry lime-oak woodland, a rare forest association whose undergrowth holds orchids, red helleborine and, in spring, hundreds of spring pheasant's-eye plants. The flat sandy ridges instead bear sand-steppe grassland.