Guindy National Park is a protected area, located in Chennai, India. Spread across 2.70 km (1.04 sq mi), it is one of the smallest National Parks in India and one of the few national parks situated inside a metropolitan area.
The park has a role in both ex situ and in situ conservation and is home to a variety of species including a wide variety of snakes, geckos, tortoises, over 130 species of birds, 14 species of mammals including 400 blackbucks, 2,000 spotted deer, 24 jackals, over 60 species of butterflies and spiders each and other invertebrates.
Entry into this protected reserve is restricted, and visitors can go into the core area only when escorted by a forest ranger from the Forest Department.[13] The children's park and the snake park have separate entrances from Sardar Patel Road next to the Adyar Cancer Institute and independent entry fees. The parks are open from 9 AM to 6 PM on all days except Tuesday. The nearest railway stations are the Kasturba Nagar MRTS station on Chennai MRTS, Guindy railway station on the Chennai Suburban Railway and Guindy metro station on the Chennai Metro.
