Caversham Lakes is a beautiful setting offering an array of different activities at their outdoor activity centre to bring you closer to nature and blow off some steam! There is open water swimming, an Aqua park and water sports on the fresh water lake.
Caversham Lakes Family Beach
We visited for the family beach area, which has sun beds to hire and parasols. You can swim in the lake from the beach and there is blowup pontoon to swim to. All swimmers have to wear a lifejacket that you are given when you arrive at the beach entrance. They have children ones too.
George loved splashing about in the water and swimming across to the pontoon. The beach is sand but it is a bit gravelly, it’s still good for making sandcastles! You can book this online, and adult ticket is £10, a children’s ticket is £5 (Sep 23) There is a bar and café serving hot and cold food.
Caversham Lakes Inflatable Aqua Park
Photo Credit: Caversham Lakes
For the bigger kids and adults, The Aqua Park looks like a lot of fun. The inflatable obstacle course for ages 6 years plus and sit out son the lake. Run, scramble, bounce and leap, it’s like a big kids soft play on water!
Water Sports
Caversham Lakes also offer open water swimming for both adults and children. You can also hire stand up paddle boards and if you have your own you can’t pay a launch fee for your own inflatable SUP, kayak or canoe for a 1 hour session.
There is also a Private Island you can hire for a big group for the day. It has its own beach and swim area.
Caversham lakes are officially defined as a ‘blue space’ by the Environment Agency; it provides an array of benefits including the improvement to mental health and wellbeing through nature and recreational use. They are trying to encourage biodiversity by planting, landscaping and introducing bird boxes and bat boxes around the lake, to support a diverse variety of wildlife. There are a total of 35 bird species recorded across the site in a recent bird survey.
