Milton Keynes - Other Amenities

Other Amenities

• Milton Keynes has a 125-mile (200-km) network of cycleways/footpaths for pedestrians and cyclists called the Redway system, generally surfaced with red tarmac, which criss-cross most of town. The national Sustrans cycle network runs to and through the town. The Swan's Way long distance path does the same.
• Central Milton Keynes is home to the National Badminton Centre and was formerly home to the National Hockey Stadium. There is a new football stadium in the Denbigh district near Bletchley, home of Milton Keynes Dons F.C.
• Near the station, the "Planet Ice" ice rink is used for professional and amateur ice hockey plus leisure skating and amateur figure skating. See Sport in Milton Keynes Ice hockey.
• Also near the station there is a covered "urban skateboarding" arena known as the Buszy, but the wide expanses and slopes of the station plaza remain very popular among skaters.
• There is a high security prison, HMP Woodhill, on the western boundary of the town.
• Willen Lakeside Park hosts watersports, and the North Lake is a bird sanctuary.
• The Blue Lagoon Local Nature Reserve in Bletchley.
• Milton Keynes is covered by a high speed WiMax network; which allows access to the internet from anywhere with signal coverage in Milton Keynes. and the central area additionally has a free WiFi.