Our verdict
Everything a big-city country park should be: red deer under thousand-year-old oaks twenty minutes from the centre. Weekends are heaving; go at 8am and it's yours.
Bristol's 850-acre back garden on the Somerset side of the gorge — deer park, veteran oaks, mountain-bike trails and mansion lawns, all free to wander.
Council-run country park estate, open daily. Some deer-park areas require dogs on leads.