For most of the world’s population, urban green spaces (UGS) offer the easiest form of contact with nature. Such environments deliver a wide variety of Recreational Ecosystem Services (RES) to visitors. This paper explores RES delivery in different types of UGS, differentiated with respect to their naturalness and distance from the city centre. Furthermore, it investigates how the identified use patterns are affected by an abrupt change in access. We extract data from Instagram, posted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, for Warsaw, Poland, and use it to measure both the intensity of use of UGS, and the experience of Instagram users. Furthermore, we compare these data with data from the same period for the previous year (2019). Our results indicate that, in typical conditions, the wilder the area, the fewer visitors. RES patterns changed, however, when access to UGS was restricted. The recent COVID-19 outbreak showed that soon after restrictions on visiting UGS were lifted, recreation shifted towards wilder green areas. Moreover, users became more oriented to wild nature. We conclude that the number of visitors, and the pattern of recreational use of UGS, are highly dependent on the character of green spaces across the urban wilderness continuum, and that they are influenced by abrupt changes in access.

对于世界上大多数人来说，城市绿地（UGS）是与自然接触的最简单形式。这样的环境为访客提供了各种各样的娱乐生态系统服务（RES）。本文探讨了不同类型的UGS中的RES交付，区别在于它们的自然性和与市中心的距离。此外，它还研究了访问权限的突然变化如何影响所标识的使用模式。我们从发布于COVID-19大流行初期的Instagram中提取数据，用于波兰华沙，并使用它来衡量UGS的使用强度和Instagram用户的体验。此外，我们将这些数据与上一年（2019）同期的数据进行了比较。我们的结果表明，在典型条件下，该地区越荒野，游客越少。RES模式改变了，但是，当访问UGS受到限制时。最近发生的COVID-19疫情表明，放宽对UGS的访问限制后，娱乐活动很快转向了更绿的绿地。而且，用户变得更加偏向野性。我们得出的结论是，访客的数量以及对UGS进行娱乐性使用的方式高度依赖于城市荒野连续体上绿色空间的特征，并且它们受到交通方式突然变化的影响。