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Just after a few ideas for taking the family out for a few rides. Mum and 7 year old ok for an hours riding. 3year old is now peddling on her own and wants to go everywhere on her bike. So after a few fairly flat routes ideas, thinking parks or estates or promenades etc. thanks in advance.
Phillips Park in Prestwich is nice for pootle.
Hollingworth Lake is nice and flat, café half way round, kids playground, lovely place.
Queens Park in Heywood is a little gem.
Nice café, BMX Track so you can show off to your kids, little bouldering bit, lake etc.
Heaton Park's a bit hilly, Sale Water Park is full of dogshit but Clayton Vale near the Velodrome might be a goer.
Towneley Park in Burnley is great - lots of flat trails and paths, big playground, great caff, big house to look round if it chucks it down.
Thompson Park just down the road is dog free and has a miniature railway and a paddling pool in the summer.
delamere forest, heaton park, Dovestone Reservoir just outside oldham.
Have fun
A lovely day out (maybe for next summer) is catch the Mersey Ferry over to Seacombe, then ride the traffic-free promenade to New Brighton (beach, cafe, ice-cream).
Another nice prom is Morecambe, with playgrounds, a squirty fountain to ride through, and various artworks,
Have you got the cycle GM maps they are free. Not north but the penine way by Lymm is flat and traffic free.
Rivington, ride to the castle, throw stones in the lake, all a three year old would ever want
Further north you've got the proms in places like Southport and Fleetwood or Blackpool if you want your kids educated in the ways of human dross.
Inland, Dunsop Bridge with the lovely flat traffic free road that goes up to the salmon ladder at Whitendale, then back down for home baked cakes at Puddleducks cafe.
Middle wood way. Stretches from marple to macclesfield - flat and some nice scenery
Rivvy - to the castle and round the ressie flat a scan be
White coppice to Brinscall - flat as can be traffic free- lake and kids play park at the end - about 6 miles
Leeds liverpool canal
Any park
Tramway into preston - arrives at the Park
Preston wheel - 21 miles mainly off road but hilly ish [ for a 7 year old] in places From avenham park to Brockholes is 11 miles round trip arrive at a nature reserve with an outside playpark
Stanley Park Blackpool - big park BMX track - MASSIVE mind- and lake etc
Southport/Blackpool or Morecambe Prom
Coast to coast - Southport to Hornsea is flat in Lancashire - never ridden it though.
Velodrome - has flat bits in the park opposite as well but the pump track/skills area will entertain both kids.
Old railway line in the Peaks - forget its name - i think there are two of them
White coppice to Brinscall is fairly muddy at the moment so I would cross it off the list
Middlewood Way