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I may well be passing by the Thetford area this week with work and may well have my SS with me for an evening spin after work - I've ridden at Thetford once years ago but, looking at the High Lodge details it looks like the car park gates close at teatime.
Any recommendations where you can park in the evening to join the trails for a ride? Advice much appreciated
I have just parked on the main drag into the site before the barriers. However, it was dark. There are some areas on the main road you could also park on near the main entrance.
Yeah, best place to park is at Brandon Country Park. There's a car park ticket machine - I think in the week it's 75p.
You can stay on that side of the road and have an explore, but if you don't know where you are going it might be a bit frustrating for a quick evening blat.
Might be best to go back up the access road and cross the main road. When you enter this side, there is a turning on the right almost immediately; take this trail (it's not massively obvious and it'd not waymarked)so keep your eyes peeled and follow it. It has a general slight downhill to it and it branches several times. It doesn't really matter what branch you take so long as you keep heading in roughly the same direction.
Eventually you'll pop out on a large fire road at the bottom of 'the Beast' (it pops out on the opposite side). Turn left.
You can either follow the waymarked trail (it's sign posted left back into the forest up a short climb) back round to high lodge OR follow the fire road up for a quicker way back to high lodge to start the trails from the beginning.
If you do this, follow the fire road until it bears round to the right (few hundred yards). There is a wide grassy path that goes straight on. Take this grassy (bit sandy) path until you get to the top. Turn right onto a very sandy path and this takes you up to High Lodge.
You'll eventually get to a field on the right hand side. The quickest way to the start of the trails is to take the first turn left after this field and then left again onto a large fire road. The start of the 2 red trails are a few hundred yards up.
I can't remember the names of the trails, but if you take the one that goes straight on (rather than round to the right) you'll eventually end up back at the bottom of 'The Beast' and can either go round for another lap or go straight over and up the hill you came down initially back to the car park.
Fantastic, thanks folks - will give it a whirl!