In the context of ecological civilization construction, the recreational services provided by forest parks are crucial for enhancing human health and well-being, and their amenity experience indicators and assessment methods have attracted much attention. However, relying solely on primary sensory experiences or shallow psychological cognition to assess the degree of recreational comfort is inadequate, necessitating the establishment of an integrated assessment model that encompasses both physical and psychological dimensions. This study took 156 forest parks in Fujian Province as its subject and developed a new framework for measuring the degree of recreational comfort in forest parks by integrating Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) and the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory-based Analytic Network Process methods (DANP), and conducted empirical assessments to validate the framework using four typical forest parks in China. The results indicated that: (1) Recreational comfort degree encompassed four main criteria: physical comfort (A1), psychological comfort (A2), spiritual comfort (A3), and social comfort (A4), along with 15 sub-criteria and 290 aspect terms. The overall frequency of terms related to recreational comfort has reached 24070 times, accounting for 39.69% of the top 500 word frequencies. The term "comfort" was mentioned 242 times in the target layer, accounting for 1.01% of all aspect terms. Among these, psychological comfort terms were most frequently mentioned, whereas social comfort terms were the least mentioned; (2) The ranking of these four main criteria based on weighted sentiment index calculations, was consistent with that of the sub-criteria. The emotional index derived from online reviews could be serve as an important indicator to measure each criterion of recreational comfort degree; (3) Physical comfort was identified as the most crucial factor influencing recreational comfort degree, while psychological comfort could effectively enhance physical comfort, thereby further improving spiritual comfort and social comfort. Within the sub-criteria of evaluation criterion A1, alleviate physical ailments (B4) had a significant influence and affected soothe and relax the body (B1), breathe fresh air (B2), and exercise physical functions (B3). In the sub-criteria of A2, ecological aesthetic experiences (B5) exerted a very high degree of influence on emotion regulation (B6) and address psychological issues (B7). For A3, improve mental health (B10) strongly influenced spiritual cleansing (B8) and increased knowledge and enhance cognition (B9). Lastly, in the sub-criteria of A4, enhance environmental responsibility (B15) had a very high impact on improved social relationships (B12), promote communication and sharing (B13), and gain emotional support (B14); (4) The regional weights for physical comfort, psychological comfort, spiritual comfort, and social comfort in the recreational comfort degree were 0.236, 0.264, 0.246, and 0.253, respectively. Among the sub-criteria, B5, B6 and B7 were among the top three factors in terms of importance; (5) The overall recreational comfort degree of the forest parks was ranked as follows: Xiannvshan National Forest Park>Daqishan National Forest Park>Yalongwan Tropical Paradise Forest Park>Fujian Jiulonggu National Forest Park. This study introduces a new perspective and methodology for evaluating recreational comfort and provides crucial support for the management and decision-making processes in forest park recreation.