Countryside

The District provides a wide range of informal recreational opportunities and, along with a range of other organisations, South Bedfordshire District Council manage and maintain a wide range of amenity, countryside and conservation sites offering excellent opportunities for both people and wildlife.

Houghton Hall Park - Houghton Regis

Tiddenfoot Waterside Park - Leighton Buzzard

Studham Common- Studham
Open all year. Admission free.

Whipsnade Heath
South Bedfordshire District Council, Bedfordshire County Council, the National Trust and London Zoological Society have different levels of responsibility across the Heath and Green and work in partnership to enhance and promote these areas. The areas provide many fine walks with marked footpaths to guide you.
Open all year. Admission free.

Ouzel Valley Park & Water Meadows - Leighton Linslade
Open all year. Admission free.

Sewell Cutting- Dunstable

Open all year. Admission free.

Stockgrove Country Park - Heath & Reach
Operated in partnership between Bedfordshire County Council, Buckinghamshire County Council and the Greensand Trust the park is located between the villages of Heath and Reach and Great Brickhill. The park has over 74 acres of woods and parkland, an ornamental lake and a picnic area, and is popular with walkers, picnickers, horse riders and families alike.
Open all year. Admission free.
Pay and Display parking.

Knolls Wood & Heath Wood - Heath and Reach

Barton Hills National Nature Reserve - Barton le Clay
Open all year. Admission free.

Greensand Ridge Walk
Bedfordshire's premier 40-mile footpath, with its convenient circular walks, runs northeast across the entire county from Leighton Buzzard to Gamlingey Cinques, which is just across the border in Cambridgeshire.
It takes in major attractions like the Grand Union Canal, Stockgrove Country Park, Woburn Abbey, Ampthill Park and Houghton House along the way.
Open all year. Admission free.

Icknield Way Path
This is a strategic route linking the Ridgeway Path at Ivinghoe Beacon with the Peddar's Way on the Norfolk border. It passes through Dunstable, Luton and continues on Warden & Galley Hills into Herts. Phone 01462 742684 or go to www.icknieldwaypath.co.uk for details.
Open all year. Admission free.

Sharpenhoe Clappers
Owned by the National Trust, Sharpenhoe Clappers, near Streatley village, is an attractive chalkland spur crowned by a graceful stand of beeches and an Iron Age fort. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Open all year. Admission free.

Sundon Hills Country Park
Set in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, near the village of Sundon, this 93-acre country park offers stunning views of the surrounding countryside. There are way marked walks taking in woods, chalk hillsides, grassland and picnic facilities.
Open all year. Admission free.

Totternhoe Knolls
Totternhoe Knolls, near the village of Totternhoe, is a wooded chalkland spur with beech woods and downland paths, a castle mound and a picnic site. The Local Nature Reserve is known nationally for its orchids and insects.
Open all year. Admission free.