The public leisure spaces，under the rapid urbanization and tourism globalization，which meaning greatly for the life quality of both guests and hosts，have become scarce resources for theworld heritage sites. The case study of West Lake demonstrates that the characteristics of leisure life for residents，that is a behavior pattern depending on landscape，an involvement model changing with age，a need orientation to the culture. Although there are great differences in leisure need and value identification among the residentsin the Eastern Hotspot Regionand the Western Non-hotspot Region，these still provide resident’s leisure live with high quality. The main factors impact leisure life of residents in the Western Lake are tourism development，the built leisure spaces and personal characteristics of residents. Therefore，its necessary to for the Hangzhou government to develop the leisure spaces in Western Non-hotspot Region to relief the guest-host contradiction，to promote the sport leisure so as to guarantee the health-oriented quality of leisure life，to optimize the urban parks so as to improve the whole enjoy-oriented quality of leisure life，to advance the culture leisure so as to promote the learning-oriented quality of leisure life.