Swinley Forest

Really lovely place to go for a good walk. Once you get by the car park/playground, it feels as if you have the place to yourself. The bike trails look like great fun although as walkers we were worried at some points that we’d get run over!

We did struggle to park as we went on a weekend during school holidays, but easily found a space across the road in the Coral Reef car park and this was actually slightly cheaper in the end.

We didn’t try out the cafe but it looked very well priced and was extremely popular.

We will definitely be back again, this time with our dog!

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. Perfect walk, nice trails, and only £3 ish for 4 hours parking which is great. Only just over £4 for all day. Perfect for a little picnic, and get away from the stress of life. Beautiful scenery all around. And, where 'The Dark Forest' is filmed in Harry Potter! Definitely going back!

I am a local and visit here almost every week. It is a beautiful forest, a great place to connect with nature and enjoy tranquillity.

However, it is very concerning that Royal Estate has been aggressively engaged in de-forestation. Over the last 3-5 years tens of thousands of trees have been chopped off, over tens if not hundreds of acres of land. Some of the beauty spots with dense forest have been heartlessly destroyed by Royal Estate.

One of my favourite places to bike, go for a walk or just be surrounded by nature. I’d highly recommend visiting here. You could literally spend an entire day here.

Beautiful place with lots to do for the family or just on your own. Amazing facilities and staff on hand to help out. Loads of parking spaces. Great adventure playground for the kids or the big kid in you to try out if you are feeling brave enough. The grounds are massive so make sure you are know when you are going and how to get back because you could easily get lost. The lakes are breathtakingly beautiful.

A lovely place for a nice morning walk. There are plenty of paths that you can take either on foot or on a bike. Although the car park may be very busy with lots of people, once you start to get further out there is plenty of room and it can feel like you have the whole place to yourself. There are plenty of little sights and ponds where you can do a bit of birdwatching, or just enjoy nature at its finest.

Reasonable parking costs. Cafe does great coffee and again isn’t overpriced. Great trails and walks to explore. No maps were available so had to take a photo of the sign and navigate from there which wasn’t ideal. Overall, very peaceful and lovely trails. Would recommend.

Miles of forest with MTB tracks consisting of green, blue, red trails each trail taylored to how experienced you are at riding, Green being the easiest and red for pro riders, shops, food area and kids park Inc go-ape, large car park and coach park, however this is pay and display parking around £3 for 4 hours.