Beaumont Park was opened in 1883 on a hillside to the southwest of town, on land donated to the borough by Henry Frederick Beaumont of Whitley Beaumont. It occupies a series of terraces dropping away from the Pennine edge, with formal gardens giving way to wilder woodland on the lower slopes. The views from the upper terraces across Huddersfield and out towards the moors are among the best in the area — this is the place to come on a clear evening when Castle Hill is too crowded.
The park's Victorian structures are largely intact: the keeper's cottage, the bandstand, the ornamental shelter with its decorative ironwork. There are no particularly famous features but the whole ensemble has an unhurried completeness to it. Locals use it as a daily walking park; it rarely feels busy.
The walk up from the town centre takes about forty minutes on foot, or buses run close by. The park connects to footpaths heading further into the Pennine foothills, making it a good start or end point for longer walks rather than just a destination in itself.