Spend a Day in Trent Park in Northern London

London, England - Anyone who has attended Middlesex University on the Trent Park campus learns to appreciate the beauty in the surrounding countryside. While London is generally known as a big city there are bits of vast parks throughout the city. Trent Park is such an exception to the bustling traffic of urban life. Situated in northern-London, between the M-25 motorway, Cockfosters, and Oakwood, there is nothing more gorgeous in the near area.

The park itself covers quite a few acres of land. It includes forested areas, a lake, golf course, farmland, and a university campus among other things. Paths cut through the forest leading from one area to another. While it is possible to get lost everything runs in quite a logical way with numerous signs to point the way. Besides, every couple of hundred meters on any path you will run into a sign showing exactly where you are.

Spending an entire day in the park makes for a nice date too. There are many benches to rest on, trees to picnic under, lake views to take in, and even horses to ride from the nearby equestrian center (just on the edge of the park). If it is a family outing you seek instead there is a wildlife rescue center in the middle of the park. When was the last time your children saw a mini-horse? There are monuments, such as the Trent Park Obelisk, to see as well as stone ruins from past watch towers. Though the ruins have been pillaged to nearly nothing they are still amazing to see in person.

You do need to be a dog lover to enjoy the area. A great many people use the park to walk their dogs all throughout the day. Be warned that a lot of them walk dogs without a leash so if that is a problem please be advised.

Cow pastures are quite to see among the rolling hills of the park. Horses walking the paths amaze the eyes. However, most eye catching of all, is the pair of geese that swim the lake together. For all this beauty you need to head over to Trent Park as soon as you can!