Where should you park when visiting Antrim Castle Gardens?

The practical answer

For **Antrim Castle Gardens**, use the **main visitor car park** first, with the Gardens' overflow parking when it is open and signposted.

The council has repeatedly had to manage parking pressure at this very popular site. Its official parking work specifically directs visitors toward **town-centre / Castle Centre parking roughly 200 metres away** when the Gardens' own parking is busy.

That is the better fallback than entering the residential streets around Castle Park and Innishmoyne looking for a space. Council traffic-management plans have explicitly tried to discourage visitor parking in those residential areas.

For a major event such as a garden show, normal parking can be replaced by event-specific arrangements or Park & Ride, so check the event page before travel.