Sports and leisure facilities
While in Milford-on-Sea you may choose to make use of the leisure and sports facilities available here in the village:

The Bowling Green on the seafront is open to the public.

There is a Children's Playground off Carrington Lane. The Football & Cricket Pitch is in Barnes Lane (matches are advertised in the local paper). Sea Angling Trips can be arranged at Keyhaven Quay and information on Fishing is available from the fishing tackle shop in Milford-on-Sea. There are Golf Links at Milford Road, Barton-on-Sea where there is a new 27 hole course with a modern club house and a friendly welcome.

Milford-on-Sea is a good centre for touring this part of the South Coast with easy access to the New Forest, Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole. In and around the village there is a wide choice of accommodation in hotels, guest houses, homes offering bed and breakfast, caravan sites

The Spit is a huge bank of pebbles, a mile and a half long and reaching halfway to the Isle of Wight. It is the largest example of a feature that is typical of the Hampshire coastline. From time to time the sea overruns the Spit and it constantly needs repairing to avoid the flooding of Keyhaven and the marshes to the east.

Those preferring an easier journey may take the car along Keyhaven Road from Milford-on-Sea village to Keyhaven car park. You can then take the local foot passenger ferry to either Hurst Castle or the Isle of Wight (where bus services are excellent and start from close to the quay). Also available are Solent Cruises to the Needles and Alum Bay; if the weather is very calm you may be lucky enough to 'thread the Needles'. Hurst Castle is famous for being built by Henry VIII and the incarceration of Charles I in 1648 from where he was taken for trial in London, and then beheaded. Hurst was of particular strategic importance during the Napoleonic wars when a huge gun battery was constructed. The Isle of Wight seems to be but a stone's throw from the walls or towers of the Castle and this is a fine vantage point from which to watch all the sailing events of Cowes Week (the first week of August), the Fastnet Race and powerboat racing. The Castle is open to the public and well worth a visit. There are facilities for light refreshments inside the grounds, Keyhaven is a delightful hamlet perhaps best known for its sailing and for the nearby public house, although in the past Keyhaven was a haunt for smugglers.

From Keyhaven, walking eastwards along the shore and the sea wall towards Lymington you will pass marshes on the left where there are traces of old salterns (shallow ponds for evaporating sea water to collect salt) that were used until the 19th Century when cheaper rock salt from Cheshire became available. Now the area is recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and well known as a bird sanctuary.