page_title: Betteshanger Park
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Betteshanger Park / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Crossing point in Fowlmead Country Park This is on a footpath from the carpark heading toward Lydden Wood (in background) and other parts of the park. It crosses 2 tarmac covered cycle tracks. The cycle tracks are large loops around the park. Thankfully the footpaths only cross them a few times.
context_page_description: Betteshanger Park is a park near Deal, in Kent, England. It covers the site of a former colliery spoil tip.
context_section_description: The park provides many activities including walking, cycling, fossil hunting, duathlon (running and cycling), orienteering and geocaching.
  Families can also enjoy the play area (close to the visitor centre and car park).
  The park has a smooth 3.5 km tarmac road race/time trial cycle circuit which can be divided into a 1.5 km circuit, a two kilometre circuit or the full 3.5 km circuit. The circuit is six metres wide and eight metres wide on its finishing straight. British Cycling, the UK's national governing body for cycling have described the circuit as among the best outdoor tarmac road cycle circuits in the UK. There is also a long mountain biking track around the park. Various cycling and running competitions are held at the Country Park  including a Guinness Book of Records record attempt twenty-four-hour Mobility Scooter Endurance Challenge by the Red Wheelies (Mobility Scooter Formation Team). They completed 77 laps (154 miles), smashing the previous record of 88 miles.
caption: Cycle Paths and Footpaths
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