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Parks and resorts

  • Gaston Park and San Agustin Cathedral, the park is located across the San Agustin Cathedral, the city’s main catholic church and the seat of the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro. The park, noted for its water-dancing fountain, is a favorite place to unwind for many locals, especially during Sundays.
  • Whitewater Rafting and River Trekking along the Cagayan de Oro river has gained popularity through the years after President Macapagal-Arroyo herself went whitewater rafting last 2002.

    • Water Rafting Cagayan de Oro

  • Catanico Falls is concealed by huge boulders, the rapids, cascading falls and natural pool of Barangay F.S. Catanico.
  • Mapawa Nature Park for horseback riding, biking, zipline and nature trekking.
  • Gardens of Malasag Eco-Tourism Village is located in a reforested area in Malasag hill. This seven hectare village has replicas of tribal houses in the region and a panoramic view of Macajalar Bay. The tourism village is owned and managed by the Philippine Tourism Authority.Gardens of Malasag,Eco Tourism Village (more photos in CDO Gallery)
  • Vicente de Lara Park is situated in front of the Provincial Capitol of Misamis Oriental with age-old mahogany trees that provide a therapeutic canopy for the promenades. The park is a popular jogging area during the morning.
  • Bonifacio Park is among several parks located in Plaza Divisoria. Most of the local soldiers who died during the Philippine-American War of 1900 are buried beneath the monument.Bonifacio Park in Divisoria
  • Kagay-an Resort in the Taguanao area, is usually packed with families and groups on weekends lounging in the cold springs.
  • Pueblo de Oro Township in upper Carmen is an expansive business and residential area. This is where SM City Cagayan de Oro, Hotel Koresco, the 18-hole Pueblo de Oro Golf Course and Country Club designed by Robert Trent Jones II, and a host of middle to high-end residential areas are located. It is also home to the Pueblo de Oro Business IT Park, the first PEZA-registered IT park in Mindanao. The IT Park currently houses one of Cagayan de Oro’s call centers.
  • High Ridge located on a hilltop in Aluba. The area used to be a commercial establishment but was closed down by the city for zoning violation. Since then High Ridge has been open to the public for outdoor picnics.High Ridge

  • Monigue Cave is located at Barangay Mambuaya this city; the cave entrance is flowing water from underground stream. The cave has a small opening that seems too narrow to be passable, it has a six inches airspace between ceiling and water that you have submerge yourselves one by one, equipped with a helmet and a waterproof cap lamp. The cave contains a beautiful sparkling formation, which is called the Calcium Carbonates (CaCO3) or Calcites. These stalactites and stalagmites, white and brown, are sign of oxidized materials that take 50–60 years to form an inch the cave is definitely spellbinding. There were formations of flowstone, gurpool-resembling, rice terraces, transparent crystals and pictureque speleothems, such as cathedral drapes and icons. Everything was simply beautiful and awesome.
  • Macahambus Adventure Park is located in Barangay Lumbia, one can experience walking on a suspended steel bridge connected to trees a hundred feet above ground level. You can then cross back using a zipline or rapel down to the Macahambus hill and cave, the site of the historic battle between Kagay-anons and American soldiers during the Philippine-American War (Philippine Insurrection) in 1900s.Macahambus Cave

    • Museums and historical places

  • Macahambus Hill, Cave and Gorge is an underground cave with a 130 foot (40 m) circular gorge. The ravine is thick with various species of plants and huge trees. It is the site of the historic Battle of Makahambus Hill between local and American soldiers during the Philippine-American War (1900).[17]
  • Museum of Three Cultures is a newly opened museum in Capitol University. It houses a gallery of Maranao antiquities from Tugaya, Lanao del Sur; a gallery of ethnohistory which shall display Cagayan de Oro history, Butuan archaeological artifacts, lumad arts and crafts from the Higaonon and Manobo cultures, and a treasure of Christian lowland artifacts of Northern Mindanao; and finally an art gallery and coffee shop that shall promote the local visual arts of Mindanao. It also has a research archives that will house Spanish era documents, photographs, memorabilia of well-known personalities in Mindanao, which is open to all researchers and students of culture.
  • Museo de Oro is a museum located within the campus of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan. The museum exhibits artifacts dug from Huluga Cave and repertoire of Bukidnon and Maranao cultures that have survived the ravages of time.[18]
  • Huluga is an archaeological site in Sitio Taguanao, Barangay Indahag. It is composed of an open site and two caves where skeletal remains of a child and woman were found. A fragment of the woman’s skull was 377 AD by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. The open site is the venue of prehistoric settlement.
  • Plaza de Los Heroes is a memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Three Battles of Cagayan de Oro during the Philippine-American War. It is located along Mastersons Avenue in upper Carmen.
  • Old Water Tower was built in 1922 just near the Gaston Park and San Agustin Cathedral. Today, it was being upgraded into a museum.

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