Nottingham Centre Parcs – any decent local singletrack?

Mrs has just booked us in for a long weekend, it would lessen the blow knowing that there is some decent rides to be had near by.

Please put me out of my misery, please!

If you’ve not got kids, surely it’s a weekend long shag/drink fest.
If you’ve got kids, take ’em to the pool.

Puzzled of Todmorden.

Nottingham centre parcs butts right up/into sherwood pines. It’s not going to set your world alight but it’s enough to stop you going mad! It’s only a short drive to the peaks from there as well.

loads of good, albeit flat, singletrack round Sherwood Pines

it’s in Sherwood Pines.

There’s something in the region of 30-odd miles of singletrack in Sherwood Pines if you can find it…

It’s not hilly but it is very twisty, turny in places, and quite good fun.

Was in Sherwood Pines yesterday, there is a huge load of new track built, a big jumps area, some new swoopy and lightly bermed area with a few jumps and rock gardens, but still mainly flat, and still not mapped or signposted, even though some of it has been ridden for six months or more. Apart from the new swoopy bits, the best bits are probably still the unsigned unmapped twisty singletrack through the woods, if you just look for entrance points off the main drags you’ll find most of them and have a laugh, but very wet and muddy at the moment. There are still obviously a lot of features being built, but even an interim map would be handy if they’re not going to publish a fancy one until its all finished.

Sherwood Pines Cycles site

if you want one of my home made maps, I’ll send you a pdf. email me at: jonathan at snap dot plc dot uk

thefallguy: I would very much like a home made map too if that’s ok? Living in the area it would be very handy to have some clues about where to look!

ygm.

thats my work email so i’ll send it you tomorrow 😀

Thanks for the offer thefallguy, will do.

the only issue with Nottingham CP and sherwoods pines, is you have to cycle out the main entrance of CP and then round the CP complex in order to get to Sherwood pines… bloody annoying when the back gate of CP exits onto the woods.

Anyways, get some beer & bird seed and setup squirrel assault courses, loads a fun to watch whilst getting smashed.

There is a lot of money being spent on the new “Kitchener” trail at Sherwood pines but the progress seems really slow. the wooden posts to mark the trail went up months ago and lots of trail has been done but there is still lots of muddy unfinished trail linking up the new sections. The ground is quite sandy and dries out quickly in fine weather but you don’t really want to visit for a couple of days after heavy rain at this time of year.

Its comical how people turn up to have a ride and look bewildered about where to go. They ask at the shop only to be told you will have to ride around and find some single track or hand out a map that only shows the fire roads. There is a sign board by the toilets/cafe which point you in completely the wrong direction for the blue trail (whatever that is).

While people are riding around the fire roads looking lost, horses are mashing up the new trails, dog walkers are S4***ing on them and the brambles are growing back.

I saw a really good map on this forum before it got hacked which I think was posted by pinenut? It showed all the original trails and most of the new stuff.

Here is a map of the new trail. You can download the .gpx file to your satnav or follow the wooden posts and yellow dots on the trees.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Sherwood-Pines

To start. Stand in the middle of the car park and face the visitor centre. Now resist the temptation to go forward towards the visitor centre and the old cycle trail sign board. Turn around and face the opposite direction. leave the car park crossing the exit road and carry on for 20 metres. The new cycle trail start sign board is on your right. Follow the trail in a clockwise direction.

Enjoy.