Lanhydrock Cycle Hub

Lanhydrock Cycle Hub, on the National Trust's Lanhydrock estate near Bodmin, has one green trail, five blues and a red dual slalom, around 16km of riding in all, plus a skills area and a balance bike track by the car park. The trails are free to ride and built for families and newer riders, with the wide green Lodge Trail and the gentle Discovery Trail to start on and a run of short, progressively harder blues to move on to. Cycle hire, the Park Cafe and toilets sit at the hub next to the main car park, and the wider estate adds a Victorian house and gardens, holiday cottages and parkland for a full day out.

The Trails

All the trails start from the Cycle Hub by the main car park, linked to it by a two-way multi-use trail, and wind through the woods and plantations around the estate. They are for bikes only: walkers, dogs and throttle-operated motorbikes without pedals are not allowed on the cycle trails.

• Lodge Trail (Green), 2.5km. Designed for families and beginners, a wide, well-surfaced ride through mixed woodland and conifers with no challenging technical features. Suitable for trailers, tag-alongs and disability bikes.
• Discovery Trail (Blue), about 6km. A circular route for riders who don't want the more adventurous trails, through woodland, over the River Fowey and past the gatehouse to Lanhydrock House. It mixes level forest tracks, a flat tarmac drive along the river and a quiet lane, then climbs the Avenue back to the house. You can add the Lodge Trail, or the ride along Station Drive to Bodmin Parkway station and back. Expect two road crossings and some gates, including electric fence gates when cattle graze the parkland.
• Bazley's Trail (Blue), 3km. The first step into mountain biking, with gentle gradients, small rollers and banked corners. A shortcut links it with the green, so you can dip in and out as you build your skills.
• Walter's Trail (Blue), 1km. Winds down and back up through Walter's Plantation, with switchback corners and some rollable jumps on the straights. At two metres wide, it is also an ideal start for adaptive mountain bikes looking for more of a challenge.
• Hart Trail (Blue), 1.5km. Two metres wide and the step between Walter's and Timber, with quicker, flowing banked corners and a fast section of linked turns to finish.
• Timber Trail (Blue), 1.5km. Lanhydrock's most technical trail, with harder corners, jumps and drops. The corners get tighter and the gradients steeper as it goes.
• The Saw Pit (Red), 500m. A dual slalom track: two lines side by side downhill through tightly packed rollers, jumps and banked corners, so you can race a friend.

The trails are open dawn to dusk. Download the trail map from the National Trust's Lanhydrock outdoor activities page before you go.

Skills Area

The skills area in Lodge Plantation, next to the car park, is the place to start: rollers, jumps, banked corners and drops, designed to match the features you'll meet on the blue and red trails. Alongside it, a small balance bike track loops over gentle bumps and corners for the youngest riders.

Bike Hire and Facilities

The Cycle Hub has cycle hire, the Park Cafe and toilets, with an adventure playground close by. Check the National Trust's Lanhydrock page for hire details and booking. Trail Munki, a bike shop in Bodmin about a mile away, also hires hardtails, full-suspension bikes and e-bikes. There is a second cafe, the Stables Cafe, in the courtyard by the house.

Beyond the Trails

Lanhydrock is a working National Trust estate as well as a cycling venue. The Victorian house and its gardens, known for camellias, rhododendrons and magnolias in season, sit alongside a shop, plant centre and second-hand bookshop, and the estate's parkland carries the walls of a medieval deer park you can still trace on foot. National Trust holiday cottages on the estate make it easy to base a longer stay here. The cycle trails are free, but the house and garden charge admission to non-members.

Getting Here

Lanhydrock is signed from the A30, A38 and A390 near Bodmin and Lostwithiel. Use the main car park (sat nav PL30 4AB): the Cycle Hub, hire and Park Cafe are next to it. The main entrance has a 2.5m vehicle width limit, and there is separate parking for coaches, caravans and campervans.

Riding is free, but parking costs £2 for up to an hour, £4 for up to two hours and £6 all day for non-members, and is free for National Trust members. Pay at the machines, with the JustPark app, or buy a ticket at the Park Cafe. Prices are correct as of October 2026 but subject to change, so check the National Trust's Lanhydrock page before you visit.

Bodmin Parkway station is 1¾ miles from the hub by the carriage drive, which you can ride. National Cycle Network Route 3 passes the entrance and links Lanhydrock to Bodmin and on to the Camel Trail.

Nearby

For a step up, Cardinham Woods, Lanhydrock's sister trail centre a few miles away, has the 9.8km Bodmin Beast blue with two optional red sections. For downhill, Gawton Gravity Hub is across the Tamar near Tavistock in Devon.

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