Walks For All: St Helens

Walks For All: St Helens

What information is available?

St Helens Council manages a number of Parks and Open Spaces. For further information about access to these parks phone the Contact Centre on 01744 676789.

St Helens has several Local Nature Reserves. However information is limited about access to these Local Nature Reserves for people with limited mobility, wheelchair users and those with pushchairs or buggies.

Siding Lane Local Nature Reserve

Transformed from colliery spoil tips, the 9.38 hectare site was declared a Local Nature Reserve in 2001 and achieved a Green Flag Award in 2002. The woodland provides for informal recreation with walks, wildflower and picnic areas, a fishing pond and visitor centre. The site has access for disabled people, including permanent access to the disability toilet via a RADA key.

St Helens' website states that people with disabilities can have access into the heart of the woodland of this local Nature Reserve, and a car park has been provided through a gate which has been fitted with a RADA padlock to allow access.

An easy access trail through the woodland allows access for all visitors along a route designed by the Rangers.

Sherdley Park

Here the Ranger Service manages the site and provides an events programme throughout the year, including nature walks, rambles, bird spotting walks, health walks, pond dipping,  woodland crafts demonstrations,  and the increasingly popular Halloween Fright Night. For more details contact the Sherdley Park Ranger Centre on 01744 815586.

The Rangers are also based at Taylor Park, Mesnes Park and at Blackbrook.

Where can I find the information on the council web site?

• Parks and Open Spaces

Where can I obtain a printed leaflet?

St Helens does have leaflets in paper form available from the various Ranger Service Visitor Centres. These leaflets are in the process of being updated, and will become available to download from the website.