🌳 Outdoor🆓 Free entry🌲 Woodland🐐 AnimalsEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free car parks at South Drive (TR14 0EZ), East Drive (TR16 4PX) and North Cliffs (no postcode). South Drive is best for the café, toilets and lake.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Tehidy Country Park is the largest area of woodland in West Cornwall. Managed by Cornwall Council, the park covers around 250 acres of peaceful woods and lakes with over 9 miles (14.5km) of colour-coded walking and cycling paths.
The main entrance at South Drive has free parking, toilets and a café serving fresh local food, with level, pushchair-friendly paths around the lake - the easiest starting point for families with young children. The lakes are a wildlife haven for ducks, swans and dragonflies, while the woods are home to red squirrels, roe deer and a huge variety of fungi and birds.
More adventurous families can follow the stream to Otter Bridge, explore the ancient Oak Woods, or take the North Cliffs circular walk (the pink trail) for the famous spring bluebell display. There are also cycle routes and links to the Mineral Tramways Tehidy Trail towards Portreath.
Dogs are welcome on the woodland routes (the lake circular walk is a no-dog area). Free car parks at South Drive, East Drive and North Cliffs, plus a picnic area, toilets and a seasonal café. The park is free to enter all year round.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Cool bag
- Insect repellent
- Audiobook or story CD
- Kids' headphones
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Reusable cutlery
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