Mill
Lakes - Footpaths provide a link from Bestwood
Country Park through to the adjacent Mill Lakes Country Park. This is
another extensive area of country parkland and large lakes, fed by the
River Leen, and teeming with a large variety of water birds.
Well managed
footpaths make for a pleasant and easy circular walk.
No fishing is allowed in the lakes.
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Pedestrian access is from Rise Park via our own 39 steps
(well - 29 actually!) from Little Oak Wood Drive (a
cul
de sac off Brownlow Drive), to join a cycle path and nature trail for a short stroll to the park.
Or join this path at the traffic lights junction of Hucknall Road
and Bestwood Park Drive. (A disused railway line, now known as the
Hucknall Road Walkway - see the dedicated page under Local Nature
reserves) |
For those not wishing to walk to Mill Lakes, they will need to undertake an
uncomfortable five
minute drive from the Estate and through Bestwood Village, where a sign at the
end of the village marks
the pedestrian entrance.
(Uncomfortable on account of the 16 vicious
road humps that have been installed along this stretch of road - did they
have to be quite so high and close together?)
Vehicles are
not allowed within the park its self, and there is no car park, so you
will need to park in the estate road opposite the entrance.
Once again, there are no charges or limits
on times of access
There are no toilets or other facilities on this park.
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A small selection of photos taken in, or on the way to,
Mill lakes:
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| The 29 steps from
Little Oak Wood Drive |
Abandoned car on the
footpath |
A totem pole points
the way |
Across the
pedestrian bridge into Mill Lakes |
A heron sits on one
of the man made islands at Mill Lakes |
Mill lakes |
