Belhus Woods Country Park Reviews Summary

Playground

Pros:

• "The real star for us with a five year old is the playground, which is amazing."
• "Carved mostly from wood, this place has a musical theme with lots of the equipment producing sound through play."
• "The new wooden play area with music instruments is impressive."
• "Great adventure playground, lots of climbing activities for toddlers and older kids."
• "Has an AMAZING playgroup for children all ages."
• "Nice big play area with sandpit and musical instruments."
• "The newly built play ground at belus country park is excellent for family there plenty of rides for kids to enjoy they even have musical 🎶 applications there pets are welcome and parking is no problem."

Cons:

• "Love this place, brilliant playground for kids (although some of it was broken/ fenced off - things like the buckets for pouring stones etc)."
• "Pity owners of dogs allow their pets to run around the children's area."
• "Lovely new play area wish there was a few places with shade on hot days my por dog u threw her in the lake to cool her down lol but very nice to be careful of the swinging log ride so many young children got bump by it."

Parking

Pros:

• "Parking costs £3 for 4+ hours, but you can see that it is money well spent."
• "There's a big pay and display car park."
• "Parking for four hours is 3.30 I think it was."
• "Parking is fair and plentiful."
• "Make sure to buy a season ticket if you're going to be a regular."
• "Don't worry about all the parking comments, if you are happy to pay using the mipermit app/website."
• "Can get busy and so avoid parking meter queues, use the MiPermit app."
• "Always love coming here, we have purchased a MI permit enabling us to enjoy most of the country parks in Essex without having to pay for parking."
• "Plenty of parking space lovely ponds and full of ducks and swans play area for the kids and a very good cafe also have a great selection of birds of prey and on some Sundays they have remote boats on the pond."