Wimbleball Lake Tramper Trail 3 to Bessom Bridge.

Description

Wimbleball Lake is a beautiful lake within the Exmoor National Park, with a mixture of woodland and open grass scenery. The lake is nearly 400 acres in size and is the centre of a countryside park. There are a wide range of walking and cycling trails going around the lakeside and across the dam onto Exmoor at Haddon Hill. There is an activity centre with sailing and fishing boats to hire and many outdoor activities. For disabled persons or those who cannot walk far there is one Tramper all terrain mobility scooter for hire from the rangers office. The Tramper will take you easily around the lake on the identified trails. See the countryside mobility website for full details and information on hiring the Tramper. There is also a wheeley boat for hire which you drive your scooter or wheelchair into, you do not need to get out and then you can have a boat trip around the lake. Because the front of the wheeley boat lowers like a landing craft you have a flat ramp to walk into the boat making access so much easier. There is a café in the main car park. There are toilets and a wheelchair accessible toilet beside the café. There are further toilets beside the rangers’ office. Tramper Trail 3 goes from the cafe past the rangers office along the lakeside, out onto a road and onto the road bridge at Bessom Bridge, which gives spectacular views on both sides up and down the lake. The path from the cafe is gravel and mostly 2m wide. The lakeside path varies from 1m to 2m wide. The road has no pavement but the Bessom Bridge does have a pavement. The steepest gradient was 10.5%. All the path was mobility scooter accessible. surveyed by Gordon Guest and Richard Allen July 2013.

OVERALL RATING: ORANGE
Path Surfaces:
Maximum Climbing Gradient: 2 - BLUE 7%
Maximum Descending Gradient: 3 - ORANGE -9%
Total Elevation Gain: 39 metres
Distance:
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