About VisitWoods and our partner organisations

VisitWoods.org.uk is the only website where you can find almost all of the woods in the UK where you are welcome to visit. For the first time you are able to search our interactive mapping to find any wood to visit, no matter who owns it.

Working with other landowners such as the Forestry Commission, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, local authorities and private owners, the Woodland Trust has mapped almost all woods across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This website is part of a wider VisitWoods project which aims to inspire people to discover woods and the many benefits they have to offer.

We want everybody to enjoy woods but we particularly want to inspire older people, disabled people and children to visit woods. Research has shown that they are the people least likely to visit woods but who may benefit the most. Our partnerships with organisations such as AgeUK, Mind, The Scout Association and DisabledGo are helping us to achieve this aim.

VisitWoods is a partnership project, led by the Woodland Trust which receives funding from Natural England (through their Access to Nature programme, part of the Big Lottery Fund Changing Spaces Programme), the Forestry Commission England, Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and People's Postcode Lottery. Additional support has been provided by DoubleTree by Hilton.

The VisitWoods project was inspired by the Space for People report.