The Loop

A ring to move around the park

The Loop is the route that ties King Salman Park together. The Royal Commission and Omrania describe a circular promenade of about 7.2 km for walking, cycling and autonomous or electric mobility, linking cultural venues, transport hubs, housing and landscape. Omrania says it also works as a microclimate engine, using shade, wind corridors, green buffers and water.

How long is it?

Omrania gives 7.1 km, most sources give 7.2 km, and InsideSaudi gives 7.5 km (as did the 2019 Arabic text). We show 7.2 km as the primary figure and list the others with their sources. The Foundation's 2025 brochure also mentions 7.25 km of shaded car-free paths, which is a related but separate figure.

One route or two?

The Foundation's investment brochure describes The Loop as an architecturally distinctive thoroughfare around the central park, with residential districts on its edge. RIBAJ describes the ring boulevard with large parking hub buildings, and a separate meandering Skyline Loop inside it, crossing the widest wadi on skeletal Corten-steel bridges. We cannot yet say whether the 7.2 km pedestrian path and the thoroughfare are the same line.

Bridges

Freyssinet's Phase 2 contract includes six bridges, four of them on the Loop and two on the Boulevard.

Where it stands

The brochure shows The Loop Bridge as a render beside progress photographs, so it is under construction. We have no map position or opening date.