Idle Valley Nature Reserve (Notts Wildlife Trust)

Lovely place for a walk lots of nature. Nice cafe lovely friendly staff and the best cheese scones for miles. Highly recommended

Beautiful trails 4 in all around the reserve fantastic cafe really nice cakes, staff brilliant and lovely little visitors gift. I live just over the road from idle valley its on my door step, so lucky to have something so beautiful next to me I go bike riding with my partner most days round there.

Visited here on a day trip for the kids, was easy to get to and the map and arrows as you walk around gave easy instructions. The walks are long even the short ones especially with smaller kids, but was a good walk with some nice views of the lake and streams and woodlands. The play area isn't really a play area so not really worth it. Worth a visit if you love the outdoors!

We had a quiet and very calming walk around the lake. Different foot paths available for long and short walk. Cafe is available and parking is currently free due to broken ticket machine but you can donate some amount at the cafe.

Both the wife and I use powerchars the main lake trail is accessible as is the cafe some of the trails have gates these are wide enough for a large mobility scooter some are locked but if you have a RADAR key you'll get through. In summer I often go over with a pair of binoculars and my camera. It's nice and peaceful. If you're into bird watching you can see a wide variety of bird life on the lake.

Very nice walks of different levels all colour coded ( follow arrows) Cafe by lake is nice way to end a walk but dogs not allowed. Small play area.

Huge nature reserve! Loads of birds, other wildlife and animals. What a beautiful tranquil place to walk. You can make your walk as big or as small as your capable of.
Highly recommended

Lovely place to go walking and you can take dogs with you. The car park is large and there's always been plenty of spaces free when I've visited. There's a cafe here though I've yet to try it. There are various walks to do. The nature reserve is situated just outside Retford.