Thank you for your lovely review and for your support. By using our car park and café, you're helping us towards our conservation goals. We're glad to hear you enjoyed your time on our site and found our facilities to your satisfaction. We hope to welcome you back again in the near future!

Hi Ally, the car park charge has be introduced this month since removing the entry fee to visit our wetland trail and hides. It is free to park for RSPB members, blue badge holders and for 30 mins if you just want to visit the shop or café. The £3 charge provides entry to the reserve and use of all visitor facilities including the car park, trails, hides, visitor centre and toilets. As a charity the additional income we generate from the parking charge will allow us to maintain and build upon our new, improved and accessible facilities whilst continuing to carry out the vital conservation work that makes Loch Leven such a special home for nature. We think for most people charging in this way will be more cost effective. As an example, a group of four non-member adults arriving in the same car would make a saving of £17 compared to our previous charging structure. As you have rightly said, for those wanting to go for a walk and not use our facilities there are many options of free parking around the loch but we hope that people using our facilities will appreciate there is a cost to maintaining them and the introduction of a car parking charge will go towards this.