Located in the New Town area and sprawling across an area of 194 hectares (480 acres), which includes a 42-hectare (100 acres) water body with an island, the Eco Park, also known as Prakriti Tirtha, is the largest urban park in the country, offering diverse attractions like the replicas of the Seven Wonders of the World, Ecological zone, multiple theme-based parks and recreational activities, making it a prime spot for eco-friendly tourism in the city of Kolkata. However, as the park is stretched across a huge area, it is practically not possible to cover it in a day. Nevertheless, for the benefit of the visitors, the park offers E-bike or electric bike/ scooter ride for 10 minutes, along with the Eco Carts that serve as a convenient vehicle to commute from Counter 1 to the Children's Park.

In addition, a toy train runs all around the Eco Park covering almost all the important parts of the park, which lasts about 25 minutes.

The idea of creating an Eco-Tourism Park was conceived by Ms Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal in July 2011, who also inaugurated the park for the public on 29 December 2012, after completion the infrastructure of the site by different government bodies, under the supervision of West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation. The beautiful and well-maintained landscape of the Eco Park is a beautiful respite from the ever increasing pollution, as well as the hustle and bustle of the city, where everybody has something to do and enjoy.

The Eco Park in Kolkata has been officially divided into several areas, which include the Active Zone, the Theme Zone areas in the north and south, three different Eco Zones, consisting of wetlands, grasslands, tropical and mixed-moist deciduous forests, and the Lake Zone, which includes an uninhabited island, named Sabuj Sathi, containing a wonderful glass house, the Sculpture court, where history has been depicted in the form of sculptures, murals, and statues, the beautiful Lakefront Promenade, and the meadows of the wildflowers.

The Active Zone, housing the Visitor Centre, contains the replica of the Wonders of the world, one of the most interesting attractions of the park, consisting of the Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Taj Mahal of Agra in India, Great Wall of China, Eiffel Tower of Paris in France, the Colosseum of Rome in Italy, and the Moai Statues of Easter Island. The Active Zone also contains Restaurants, Food courts, offering refreshments for the visitors, along with the Crafts Haat, showcasing the cottage industries and handicrafts of West Bengal, and the Urban Museum, displaying a beautiful collection of stunning artworks, mostly used to decorate Durga Puja Pandals.

Located in the North Theme Zone area, the Amphitheatre, equipped with a permanent concrete stage for performance, is a semi-circular open gallery with the capacity to accommodate around 1000 people. The stage-greenroom complex is designed to look as if floating on water.

Interestingly, the adjoining food gallery has fascinating brick twisted pillars. The zone also houses the Children’s Park, intended to help the kids to learn through fun. The Park, spanning across 2.47 acres, and decorated with fountains, lush green gardens and sculptures, is a kid’s dream land, containing play areas, swings and slides, elevated platforms linked by causeways, and many more. The North Theme Zone also contains, among others, the Formal Garden, based on the concept of vertical gardening surrounded by a flat landscape, the Bonsai Garden, the Chinese Garden, The Heliconia Garden, and the Bamboo Garden, housing varieties of Bamboo plantations in various sizes, right from short grass type to the giant bamboo shoots, creating a serene yet interesting themed garden. It also houses the Butterfly Garden, consisting of a large dome to enclose different species of flowering plants, including the perennials that support a large range of butterflies thrive around a circular body of water.

The Play Area, located in the South Theme Zone area, just next to the Butterfly Garden, offers learner's golf courses amidst a green landscape.

The zone also includes winding pathways through a Tea Garden area, occupying an acre of land, where 40 trucks of soil were brought in from Dooars region of North Bengal to help the tree plantations thrive. The Mask Garden, located adjacent to the Tea Garden, displays various types of masks of different shapes, sizes, and colours, procured from various districts of West Bengal, as well as from other parts of India, even from various countries in the world, while the Rabi Aranya, named after the famous poet Rabindranath Tagore, features several plants and trees mentioned in his literary works. The two sides of a wall, running along the South Parking area of the Eco Park, have been transformed into canvases of artworks with colourful graffiti, painted by two eminent artists of the city of Kolkata, Jogen Chowdhury and Subhaprasanna.

Apart from the above, the huge area of the Eco Park contains several other gardens like the rose garden and the fruit garden, and many more interesting spots like the Ice Skating Rink, Artists Cottage, Adda Zone, musical fountains, laser shows, and the beautiful Lake Front Promenade, in addition to the Solar Dome, the Renewable Energy Museum in India, featuring interactive exhibits, and showcasing sustainability, powered by more than 2,000 solar panels.