Zuiderpark is a city park located in the Zuiderpark district of The Hague. It is part of the Escamp district.

Park construction
The park was constructed in the interwar period as an internship project. The design dates from 1908, when architect HP Berlage drew up the plan for the expansion of The Hague. Construction started in 1923, the official opening was in 1936. Pieter Westbroek, director of the Municipal Plant Service, and backyard architect DF Tersteeg made many changes to the design. The core of the park consists of a large pond and playgrounds. Surrounding it are other, almost independent parks with educational and sporting facilities.

Duck decoy
At the request of the General Society for Nature Conservation for The Hague and surrounding areas, the duck decoy remained in Berlage's design. There was a duck decoy here already in or perhaps even before 1639. This is not accessible to the public.

Ot and Sien
On the north side of the park is the monument of Ot and Sien, surrounded by several benches. The monument is your very first literary monument in the Netherlands and was unveiled on September 29, 1930, well before the official opening of this park. The images were made by Frits van Hall.

swimming pool
The municipal swimming pool was inaugurated on May 30, 1930.

Arena
Until mid-2007, the park housed the Zuiderpark Stadium, home of football club FC/ADO The Hague, now housed in a new stadium in the Forepark (Cars Jeans Stadium). The Zuiderpark Sports Campus, a sports complex for indoor sports, has been on the site of this stadium since 2017. Every year, the largest free pop festival in the Netherlands, Parkpop, takes place in the Zuiderpark. The Zuiderpark has several entrances, on Vreeswijkstraat, Loevesteinlaan and Melis Stokelaan; the main entrance is located on Veluweplein.

Sculpture route
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Elephant pond
Between the ponds in the Zuiderpark is the Olifantsvijver, which is popularly known as the Elephant Pond. In 1937, circus Sarrasani visited Scheveningen. Then, on 24 August, creatures and materials were loaded onto the then railway station in the Zwolsestraat. The oldest elephant, 108-year-old Jenny, fell ill and collapsed. She was taken to the Hague Zoo on the Koningskade to regain her strength, but died that same day. The carcass was bought for 45 guilders by the education museum, which was interested in her skeleton. It was cleaned and then placed in a pond in the Zuiderpark, so that the algae could clean the bones. This is how the pond got its own name. The skeleton was buried in the sand in the memorial garden, so that the algae could decay. Then the skeleton was hung up. On 26 August 1938, Jenny's skeleton was placed in the Museum of Instruction.

Narrow gauge
South of the stadium, a narrow-gauge railway is in use in the Stoomgroep West Zuiderpark.