On the basis of the provincial multi-target geochemistrical land survey at 1∶250 000 scale in Jiangsu, a total of 45 city parks in the Su-Xi-Chang region, like the Panmen Park in Suzhou, the Wujiang Park in Wujiang, the Huishan Park in Wuxi, the Zhongshan Park in Jiangyin, the Five-star Park in Changzhou, the Hualuogen Park in Jintan, and so on were elected as subjects in a systematic study on distribution of pH, TOC and 50 elements, including Cd, Hg, Pb, Zn, Sb, Sn, B, F, Se, N, REEs, etc. in the soils of these parks. Results show that the distributions of trace elements in city park soils are obviously different from those in polluted urban soils and normal farmland soils. The park soils, as a whole, tend to be low in heavy metal content and significantly lower than farmland soils in N and TOC content. No intensive anthropogenic enrichment of S, Se, Cd, Pb, Zn and TOC is found in the park soills. Heavy metal pollution there is very slight and dominated with Hg, which is related to human activities. The distribution of S, Se, Cd, Pb, TOC and pH in the 0～200cm soil layer is quite stable and does not vary much with soil depth. All the findings indicate that the distribution of trace elements in most of the park soils has rarely been disturbed by human activities as compared with that in general urban soils. Therefore, the soil environment of the city parks can be cited as reference essential to the study on impacts of human activities on urban soil environment.