Heading down there tomorrow evening - where is the best place to park if arriving at 20:00 ish?
not done it myself, but iirc over the road.
Yep, over the road in the Health Club car park.
I've never been sure that the health club or swimming pool car parks didn't get locked at a particular time. If you drive past the Lookout entrance on your left, there is a small sort of lay-by about 100M further on on the left (just as the road bears to the right). Always been fine there.
Thanks guys - have possibly got some local knowledge coming along to help guide us through the predicted snow.
There are multiple entry points to Swinley other than the Look Out. If you go along the western edge on the A3095 at each roundabout there is a handy place to park and entry point, lots of dog walkers use these. One of these also has a handy and welcome burger van each evening. There are also entry points from Bagshot such as Vicarage Rd and at the end of the miltary housing estate of Kings Ride in Camberley. Plenty of space to park and all easy to get to the mtd routes.....when you know your way...the camberley entrance takes you over barossa/old dean common, with some nice wide open fire road type tracks, just dont run over the deer on your way thorugh.
Broadmoor hospital car park?
On the couple of times late last year that we did night rides there they never brought the barriers up and we parked in the Lookout car park without problems. Even if they did bring up the exit barrier there seemed to be a big enough gap around the side to get past anyway 😉
I think the general fear is that if you leave your car in the Look Out car park late at night, someone will break into it! I've always used the Coral Reef car park opposite.
+1 for the Coral Reef.