Address: Moor Ln, Thorpe on the Hill, Lincoln LN6 9BW, United Kingdom
Phone: +441522688868
Rating: 4.7
based on 304 reviews.
Cafe and Dining
Pros:
"Great cafe and children's safe play areas both inside and outside."
"The centre itself offer an indoor play area for young children with a small cafe, while The Boardwalk cafe is bigger with a great selection of savory meals and sweet treats."
"The café on site always has a good stock of delicious homemade cakes (alongside a regular menu) with plenty of gluten free and vegan options."
"The cafe is amazing, so many seats and staff are so friendly."
"Nice cafe at park with seating both inside and out with views across lake."
"The food has always good with lots of choice especially for those like me with dietary requirements, it's very reasonably priced too."
"The nature center has a good cafeteria with good choices on the menu and activities for kids."
Cons:
"The cafe was quite busy and the food was okay, not bad but a bit expensive for what it was."
"Cafe was a little expensive but all cafes in nature or garden centre's are."
"They've stopped the help yourself jugs of water which was disappointing and now charge 60p for condiments like tomato sauce and mayonnaise!"
"The only disappointment of the day was sitting down in the café at 1445 and trying to order food to be told they'd stopped serving at 1430."
"I was disappointed that the lady serving was touching the rim of the drinking glasses."
"Service was slow..so you dont need to be in a hurry."
"The soft play area is unsupervised and during school holidays overrun with kids too old for it."
Parking and Accessibility
Pros:
"There is ample parking (free for disabled badge holders)."
"Large reasonably priced car park."
"Car parking is just £2 all day and there is a visitors centre with gift shop, cafe and lots of information about the area."
"Parking is only £2 all day."
"All day parking for £2 with plenty of parking spaces."
"Parking can be paid for by card now which is easier and in winter it's £1.50."
"Plenty of parking available at a reasonable £2.50 for a full day."
Cons:
"Unfortunately today all pooh bins were overflowing with the heat they stank and was fly's all around the bins, goes to show does get picked up shame wasn't anyone there to of empty the bins."
"Parking was quite difficult is the only downside but it shows how popular the place is!"
"£2.50 to park, they've updated their carpark ticket machines, so you can pay by card but you also now have to put your reg in now. So, no more passing on your ticket!"
"A nice nature park BUT the car parking here is an absolute joke. Neither of the two pay machines are working now so you have to use the kiosk in the park centre."
"Carpark is too much. I'm sure people would be happy to go for a coffee or ice-cream here but are put off by the cost of parking."
"Only downside I knocked a star off for is, one of us is disabled so we have a blue badge. There are only a few blue badge parking spaces and last time we went they were all taken and 1 car did not have a blue badge."
"Price has increased 25% to £2.50 for the day even if you just want a couple of hours."
Walking Trails and Nature
Pros:
"Brilliant nature reserve with many walks for all abilities."
"Great walks, wildlife and bird watching, several hides on walks."
"Amazing place to go, cheap parking, variety of walks for different abilities and moods."
"Nature is abundant, both flora and fauna."
"Highly enjoyable Sunday morning walk with the dog. different walks for all abilities of people."
"Beautiful scenery! Lovely short or long walks with hidden bird watching huts, views for adults and children."
"Whisby offers kilometers of very accessible walking space amongst the lakes and conservation areas to the West of Lincoln."
Cons:
"Also for such a tiny lake, it's amazing how little of it you get to see! (Mainly blocked by trees)"
"Some of the smaller paths into the more inaccessible areas do get too muddy for buggies and wheelchairs during the winter."
"I think there's actually only 1 walk out of about 6 where you can let your dog off lead (and it's the shortest one) which is really disappointing."
"Whisby is a reasonable short walk around a small lake (an old quarry). It is very busy, and no good for anyone craving wilderness and solitude!"
"The start of Coot walk as you come off the bridge is also very narrow, and the gradient makes it a constant battle to not go head first into the stream."
"Some of the walks are not wheelchair friendly but two of them are very suitable."
"The walks could do with some areas re surfacing, as it is a bit tricky to manoeuvre in an electric chair over the pot holes on grebe lake walk."
Facilities and Amenities
Pros:
"Our daughter loved the eggbox scavenger hunt, nice way of getting very young children connecting with nature."
"Very good pathways for disablement scooters, there are 2 disablement scooters you can hire."
"Loads of play equipment for all ages, both indoors and out."
"Great play area with sandpit, walkways over the pond and tubes to climb through."
"Such a fantastic place to take the children brilliant indoor play and outdoor activities."
"A fantastic place to come with young children. There is a good outdoor play area and free indoor play. The food is delicious and reasonably priced, plus arrives very quickly."
"First class main building with a wonderful restaurant and craft/book/gift area."
Cons:
"Very quiet at this time of year for wildlife."
"Very wild day when I visited. Restricted my visit mainly to visitor centre and cafe due to adverse weather."
"Too many dogs. This would be a fantastic place for wildlife but when we visited a very large proportion of visitors were dog owners."
"Sadly not all dog walkers are respectful to the signs and I have encountered dogs off the leash in areas they should be leashed."
"Unfortunately not a lot of wildlife and mainly gulls when I walked."
"The place does feel in need of some improvements, though."
"Unfortunately we got shouted at by a very rude woman when I let the pup off lead on a route new to us."