Sherwood
Forest Country Park - Free Day Out in the Midlands
Something for everyone. Sherwood Forest Country Park welcomes
around 500,000 visitors each year, ranging from local residents
to overseas tourists, from special needs groups to school outings.
We welcome volunteers prepared to help out with the work of the
park, for example, by helping as a marshall at seasonal events,
or lending a hand with litter picking. Please contact the Rangers
for more details.
Browse
around the Visitor Centre shops or relax after a stroll in the
Forest Table Restaurant. Take a walk to the mighty Major Oak,
pick up one of our fun family nature trails, or just stand and
admire the weird and wonderful shapes of the ancient oak trees,
twisted by age and weathered into living sculptures.
Take time
out to appreciate the unique ecology of Sherwood. The natural
decay of fallen wood means the woodland teems with insect life,
fungi, birds and bats. In partnership with the Sherwood Trust,
we currently have a woodland grazing project at Sherwood, with
Hebridean sheep and Dexter cattle helping ensure that open areas
of medieval heathland do not revert to scrub.
To
contact the Jinney Ring Craft Centre please check out the Family
Day Out listing for the Sherwood
Forest Country Park for a map and more information.
For
a FREE copy of our 50 FREE Days Out report please click
here