点评:I visited alone with my lightweight mobility scooter that gives a similar ride to a manual wheelchair.
The Blue Badge parking spaces are fairly close to the Information Centre, cafe and loos. You pay for parking by card at a machine before you leave (ANPR is in operation). Personally, I felt the parking was a rip-off at £10.50 for 2.5 hours.
There are accessible loos and a Changing Place.
The cafe is wheelchair accessible, though a small lip at the entrance door floor required a bit of momentum for me to get over it.
After lunch, I went to the Info Centre, where I was told that the accessible trail was the Archer's Stroll (just over a mile long), which starts from the other side of the cafe. Setting off, I felt a little unsure how to navigate around the cafe to find the trail, as this wasn't obvious to me. I did then pick up the trail, which is well-marked with a black arrow on a white background.
The trail's terrain was variable. Some sections were quite smooth (highly compacted small chippings which have a thin blanket of rotted vegetation - clearly these are older sections that have bedded-in). These sections were a dream! Other parts were very rough as they had a lot of loose very large chippings, which made it an extremely bumpy ride. I certainly would not like to be pushing a wheelchair (or a child's pushchair, for that matter) along these sections, yet the trail is advertised on the forest's website as being suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs.
Benches are dotted around, so it's nice to take a pause (and give your spine a rest from the juddering if you're a wheelchair/mobility scooter user!).
I feel that the 'accessible' trail would best suit a mobility scooter/powered wheelchair with larger pneumatic wheels and very good suspension. I certainly wouldn't reccomend it for a manual wheelchair.
I visited midweek when it wasn't too busy. I imagine weekends would be crowded, as the forest hosts a great play area and access to the Go Ape attraction.
翻译:我独自一人带着轻便的代步车参观,这种代步车的乘坐体验与手动轮椅类似。
Blue Badge 停车位距离信息中心、咖啡馆和厕所相当近。离开前,您需要在机器上刷卡支付停车费(ANPR 正在运行)。就我个人而言,我觉得停车费太贵了,2.5 小时 10.50 英镑。
有无障碍厕所和更衣室。
咖啡馆适合轮椅通行,不过入口处的地板上有一个小凸起,我需要一点力气才能越过它。
午饭后,我去了信息中心,在那里我被告知无障碍步道是 Archer's Stroll(长度超过一英里),从咖啡馆的另一边开始。出发时,我有点不确定如何在咖啡馆周围找到步道,因为这对我来说并不明显。然后我找到了步道,它用白色背景上的黑色箭头标记得很清楚。
这条小径的地形变化多端。有些路段相当平坦(高度压实的小碎石,上面覆盖着一层薄薄的腐烂植被 - 显然这些是已经嵌入的较老路段)。这些路段简直是梦幻!其他部分非常崎岖,因为有很多松散的大碎石,这使得骑行非常颠簸。我当然不想在这些路段上推轮椅(或者儿童推车),但森林网站上宣传这条小径适合轮椅和婴儿车。
周围散布着长椅,所以休息一下很不错(如果您是轮椅/电动代步车用户,可以让您的脊椎从颠簸中得到休息!)。
我觉得“无障碍”小径最适合电动代步车/电动轮椅,它们有更大的充气轮胎和非常好的悬架。我当然不会推荐手动轮椅走这条路。
我是在周中不太忙的时候去的。我想象周末会很拥挤,因为森林里有一个很棒的游乐区,而且可以进入 Go Ape 景点。