Lovely place to visit for a walk, coffee or bike ride. Path is gravel, steady slopes but fairly flat. Pay for car parking. Today it was £3.50 for 1 hour and £6.50 for 2 hours. Unsure how much it was for longer periods of time the app used is the Ringo app.

Love this place. Take our bikes and go for a pedal! Car parking is fairly expensive (£6.50 for 2 hours) but the cost is obviously put to good use. Great ice cream in the cafe...

We really enjoy visiting this place - we live nearby in Swadlincote and the walks, café and facilities are always well kept. However, the prices do feel increasingly difficult to justify. Parking is nearly £7 for just 2 hours, and our quick stop at the café came to almost £20 for 2 drinks, 2 cakes and 2 dog ice creams. The café spend was our choice, so I don’t mind that as much, but the parking charges feel excessive. Even if the money supports the forest, the current prices risk making the site accessible mainly to those who can comfortably afford it, which is a real shame. We’d visit more often if parking were more reasonably priced, and I hope this is something that will be reviewed.

A very nice place to walk and cycle, brilliant for kids, easy access to conkers via cycle route. Cross the road to longer routes through the woods. Cafe on site. Paid parking

A lovely spot to walk on a sunny day. Very peaceful with plenty of bird life around the lakes. It was our first visit. The only disappointment was the cost of the parking. Over £8 for three hours and no extra hour free for blue badge holders which would have been appreciated as there are lots of walks to enjoy but being slower we had to cut them short.