Itchen Valley Country Park

Great country park with plenty to do for children and walks for dogs. The car park charges are reasonable too, especially all day. The cafe isn't large, but the food is good and everything is kept clean with plenty of space inside and out to sit. We aren't local, but we go here quite often when visiting and have used the Go Ape on a number of occasions. Would recommend.

Only Hampshire council could boast that a place that is basically a wood, bought wood from 50 miles away to lower it's carbon footprint. Also, I don't think you could buy non LED bulbs if you tried for the last 5 years or so. Joking aside, it's a nice place. Lots to see and do, and it has varied facilities with good toilets that are clean. Bizarrely, for self proclaimed energy saving place, it has the hottest water of any sinks in any restrooms I have ever visited. Bordering on dangerously hot.. funny really

This is a great park if you have children. Particularly if they need a bit of “encouragement” with walking, as the trails have plenty of play areas and things to spot along the way. The cafe is operating a takeaway and is well stocked with food and drink. Great fun for a day out!

Not very dog friendly with expensive car parking. Same rates as the Swan Centre. Good for kids, especially small ones. Lots of effort been spent on the Halloween displays, good fun. The Woodland walks are OK, but dogs on leads is compulsory everywhere, with lots of signs to remind you.

There's plenty of parking (I went on a Saturday about 11.30am) and the parking prices weren't too bad considering the park was free to enter other than that. We walked around the brown trail but it wasn't obvious where to start from and I think we went the wrong way. There wasn't many posts on the way round to show you were on the right track. The main field area next to the car park was nice and spacious and there's a little playground there if you're taking kids, plus plenty of benches to sit down at. The only disappointing bits were the lack of decent signage about where to start walks and posts showing you are on the right track and that they advertise a river walk on all the signs but it seems you can't do that anymore. Also there is no real path for the meadow walk and the first bridge we came to was questionable to cross on that trail. Overall it was a nice walk, even though we got a bit lost, and we would go again.