Ok so it's meant to be good weather tomorrow at FoD so I am guessing the car park will fill up quickly. Question is, how early do you think you'll need to get there to get a space?
Depends how close you want to be to the café and shop.
There's quite a lot of parking if you're willing to park further away up the fire road to the trails, otherwise the closer you want to be, the earlier you should get there.
Park down the valley, by the pools on the way to Whitemead. It’s a few mins gentle spin up the old railway line to the F.C. place & across the bridge to the bike centre. There’s a fab little food van there too. Or just park at the F.C. place, there’s plenty of parking (at cost). It will be heaving though.
Park at Beechinghurst car park less than a mile to pedalway centre and far less manic you can go up the overflow car park at the pedalway which is a fire road only which is a bit rough paying £4 or more for that I only park at pedalway in week now just to much hassle at weekend and have my van dented there too.
Park end parking, most of the good off piste trails start nearby but if you must ride the way marked stuff it's a 10 min ride on the cycle path to the start
Couple of alternatives to pedleaway - Cannop ponds , free plus a tea/burger van , speculation , free . Both are an easy spin to the waymarked trails .
