[Closed] Worth taking the bike to Sherwood Centerparcs?

Absolutely.

I live local etc. There is a permissive double track that leads alongside the POW fence that surrounds CP near the main entrance.

You can also ride traintrack to Southwell and NCN Route 6 to clumber Park but route six is a badly maintained bog swamp near Clumber currently but maybe frozen today!

You will probably have enough in the Pines.

Battle your way out of center oarcs and ride along the fence as stated. You then arrive on the pines trail. Was worth it for me but certainly needed more hills .

Good escape for a bit .

Yes, Sherwood is enjoyable given the mayhem in CP (which I also enjoy).

Just follow road out of CP past the security/check in section, you crest a wee hill and then head down...Road goes to right, you turn left (might be shown as a dead-end). It skirts the boundary of CP and joins the trail network in the woods. Dead easy to get to.

Ok... I'm used to big local hills.... was concerned that it might be too flat? Should make a nice change i suppose. Agree about the mayhem.... Usually take my bike when we go to whinfell to 'escape'. First time at sherwood.

"POW fence" 😉

I've been to Sherwood for summer for last 4 years...much cheaper than Whinfell due to distance from the Scottish school holidays...saves 300 quid on lodge but costs 40 quid more on diesel and the 100 quid for a night en route...

The hills around here are accumalative rather than long.

If i ride to Sherwood Pines and back (26 miles or so I will knock up 400m) just getting there and back. So it does add up.

The Pines route is not riding its best at the moment - a good chunk of it, including the bike park and the 5th Avenue trail are shut for forestry work and what is open is in a poor state with a lot of puddles. But if you've got an hour and a half to nip out and ride your bike it's OK. I live in the White Peak and have ridden Sherwood Pines every fortnight through the winter as it's a dependable way to get the miles in when the weather's crap.

Oh, and the names for the trail are awful. Glorifying war whilst also trying to compare World War 1 with a load of fat old men riding around a wood at the weekend.

Nothing to do with it being a WW1 training centre then?

It will probably be a quick breakfast time bash before the rest of the family are up and about. Think I'll give it a go anyway.....

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">Oh, and the names for the trail are awful. Glorifying war whilst also trying to compare World War 1 with a load of fat old men riding around a wood at the weekend.</span>

It's not. It's got a historical context with Lord Kitchener.

There are World War I bunkers to explore too.

I hate the fact they named Bakewell after a tart too. 😉

There are strava segments on the roads inside CP's...i am embarrassed to know this...i'm no where near the top 10.

🙁

Bikes get stolen from Sherwood and Whinfell.  Fact.

Seen some pretty expensive bikes over the years chained up outside lodges. Utter madness.

Either keep it in the lodge or don't bother would be my advice.

At Stu points out.... Watch for Bikes being stolen

We stopped in the Forest Holiday's place for a week and can't remember a day the police were not round to collect details of a stolen bike (so we were told when asked why they were there)

That aside.. yep flat but we did 2 days out of a week over in the Peaks which was only an hours drive. Mixed up it was well worth taking the bikes.

"Either keep it in the lodge or don’t bother would be my advice"

I always keep it in the lodge......

Bike theft is rife there, they know this as well but do nothing about it.

"I always keep it in the lodge……"

Sensible obvious choice 😉

You'd be amazed how many don't though......

I've heard it's common practice at centreparcs to come in at the rear.