Southwater Country Park

Great country park, easy parking. Public toilets and cafe. Excellent play park. Good smooth path for bikes, pushchair and wheelchair. Paddle beach and boating lake available too.

I have passed this park so many times but never had a walk around it, I must say it's a nice place especially on a sunny day, we just had a stroll round the lake, the kids park looks a fun place to take the grandkids, it has a small gravel beach, boat and SUP board hire etc and a cafe. Parking is not free but only cost us a pound because we were not intending to stay long this time but will on our next visit now we know what it's like.

Wonderful for children. The dinosaur Park is great for wide me of ages. Beautiful lake with water sports and paddling areas. Lovely cafe and woodland walks

If I lived locally I would be pleased and use it regularly but was it worth driving for over 30 minutes to get there, not for me. I was surprised to see so many dogs being walked off the lead considering there were signs saying they had to be kept on a lead in the park. I was impressed with the cafe and enjoyed a lovely bacon baguette sat by the lake.

Great little park with cafe, boats, kayaks, adventure playground, skate park and nice little beach.
Plenty of places to explore around the lake and also have a picnic. Cafe serves a wide range of stuff and there is also BBQ stands by the beach too.
Car parking is easy and plenty of spaces. 1 hour for £1.

Lovely country park with lake, can hire watersports equipment. Paddling beach slots available and not overcrowded. Visitor centre and cafe friendly with good food selection. There are picnic tables dotted all over the park so lots of good places to stop for a picnic. Dinosaur Isle playpark is brilliant, so many fun things for the kids to do. Parking is reasonable and can be paid on apps like Ringo too. A great day out.

Lovely place to connect with nature. Great watersports lake and an adventure playground for young children.

A beautiful day out with the family. We arrived fairly late in the day (due to hoping the weather would improve, which it did!!) so my only negative would be that I wish we were there for longer!! Would definitely recommend.
Only points to consider-
The cafe is quite far from the play area in terms of getting lunch. So if you wanted to eat lunch and play, I recommend bringing a picnic, or grabbing bits from the café on your way in.
Toilets are a bit of a walk from the play area too, so If you've got small kids I'd recommend popping in before you go into the play park.