Outdoor Activities

Swimming

Jena has 2 outdoor swimming pools: [more]

🏊 Ostbad: open air pool [more]

  • only open in the Summer (May to Sep.)

  • booking online before is recommended

🏖️ Südbad: artifitial lake with beach [more]

  • It is also called Schleichersee

  • only open in the Summer (May to Sep.)

  • booking online before is recommended

Swimming in River

  • There are many nice places in Saale where you can go and swim during the summer period. You can find these places [here]

Ping Pong

🏓 You can play ping pong in many tables available in the parks for free. You can find these tables here.

Volleyball

There are several possibilities for playing volleyball in Jena

🏐 booking at hochschulsport (at USZ in the park, Oberaue 1) [link]

🏐 Free beach volleyball field in Lobeda West in north of tram stop Emil-Wölk-Straße [map]

🏐 Free beach volleyball field in Winzerla, west of tram stop Winzerla [map]

Basketball

There are few possibilities for playing basketball in Jena. Here we collected places in Jena where to play basketball for free

🏀 at Friedensberg [map]

🏀 north of city center [map]

🏀 more locations, that we did not verify yet you can find [here]

Jogging

🏃 Info about jogging routes in this website. You can find useful info about jogging routes around Jena.

Open Gym / Calisthenics

There are several places in Jena where you can do sport with the free equipment, similar like Calisthenics

💪 on the hill Landgrafen [website] [map]

💪 east of Lichtenhainer Brücke close to the football stadium [map]

💪 More spots, not verified by us yet [here]

Boating

There are some companies around Jena where to rent boats for a trip on the Saale:

🚣‍♀️ Saalestrand Kanu [website]

🚣‍♀️ ️Kanutours Camburg [website]

🚣‍♀ ️Bootsverleih Jena [website]

⚠️You need to book the trip before