07/09/2026
With autumn well and truly on its way, here are some of our favourite walks to explore to see all the shades of the change in the season 🍂
📍Fritham is off the beaten track, but well worth a visit. 4 miles, mostly gravel paths. We recommend eating at The Royal Oak - a super cosy pub, off the beaten track. You can cosy up in front of the wood burner with one of their excellent ploughman's, a perfect post-bike ride or hiking stop!
📍Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, one of the most spectacular woodland trails in Britain. Just shy of 11 miles, we recommend parking at Blackwater, from there, you can walk through the arboretum, which showcases a lot of different trees, including two great big Canadian Redwoods!
📍The Bolderwood Trail is a magnificent 2-mile walk leading you through some of the oldest parts of the forest. Set out from the Radnor Stone, where you can follow the trail, finishing at a deer viewing platform where you can quietly watch the resident herd of fallow deer grazing.
📍The Ashurst trail is a 3-mile circular walk through ancient pastures that captures the character of the New Forest. Starting at Ashurst Railway Station, this is a really easy walk to see the autumnal colours.
📍Denny Wood Walk is an easy 3-to-5-mile circular walk encompassing all the shades of autumn, through one of the park’s designated ancient and ornamental woodlands.
📍The wonderful Lyndhurst walk follows waymarks along easy-going gravel tracks, traversing nine-and-a-half miles of Hampshire countryside, exploring the historic woodland corridor that lies between the villages of Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst.
