Bestwood Country Park

Love it here. Great trails for walks and cycling. Kids love the park and we love the peace and the views

Always great to go to walk our dogs. The only downsides are the horse poop on the paths, and the occasional newbie riding on the footpaths (explicitly forbidden for horses).

Photos here from after the 2022 heatwave, showing very dead and dry grass, and the remains of a wild fire.

Nice walks in rural environment and through woodland trails. Historical reminders of mining past. The lake is attractive too

Not been back here since 2005! And I went recently and how beautiful it is and a lovely lovely walk. If you’re looking for a long walk or a place to jog and run up and down hill terrain, this is a good place for it. For walking dogs, riding bikes, seeing horses etc it’s really good

Nice place for a walk in summer, best take your own drink and food no cafe open in week only on a Saturday morning there are toilets . There is a hotel, the Bestwood lodge. that's open to the public but if you use their carpark it's charged per HR best to use the two free car parks .

Great place to take the family for a fun adventure or you to enjoy a long walk in various settings, allowing you to relax and unwind. Two free car parks, one at Bestwood Lodge, the other near the iconic beautifully preserved Pit headstocks. A range of safe walks to suit all levels and abilities including hills, woods, lakes and parkland. Variety of wildlife can be seen on the water or on the meadows. There is a kids playpark, adventure park and lots of grassy areas for picnics, The river Leen runs through the park and fish including Brown Trout, Minnows and Sticklebacks can be seen too. Well worth the visit and hats off to the council for maintaining this open space on the edge of Nottingham and keeping it free and accessible to all.

Lovely hotel, lovely staff, fantastic interesting old building full of character and charm. Good service and fairly cheap. Nice food. Nice bar and haunted too !!
@@@####&&&&& ::Updated Dec 2022.;We stayed for Christmas time after having stayed here 2 times previously. Now owned independently and no longer by Best Western the hotel remains a fascinating old building with old wood panelling and spooky spiral staircases which were formally servants stairs are now used as emergency exits. Staff remain especially hardworking especially Declan, Linda and Rachel who deserves a special mention for going above and beyond. Unfortunately no longer dog friendly under the new owners; our dog being an assistance dog was allowed in but only after some effort and explanation of the requirements of assistance dog access under the equality act. We presented the hotel staff with a leaflet explaining their obligations under law which we hope will mean that others with assistance and service dogs will be welcomed from the offset as we eventually were.

Perfect for walking the dog 🐩
Very nice park recommend 🙃