NEWBOROUGH FOREST

Popular Tourist Attraction

Originally Newborough forest was just a place where the locals went for a walk and a few holiday makers would visit.

With Anglesey becoming a lot more popular, with its many tourist attractions and a mecca for culinary cuisine, the tourism industry on Anglesey has grown, making it the third most popular tourist destination in the UK.

In response to this, the size of the main car park increased, toilet facilities were installed and more paths and trails were created with clearer signage, making it a “go to” destination for cyclists and walkers.

At the main car park there is plenty of parking, enough spaces for several hundred cars and toilets with good facilities for the disabled. There are now separate areas should you wish to have a BBQ. During peak season like summer and Easter the car park can sometimes fill up quite quickly!

Once you have reached the main car park in Newborough forest you can either walk through the forest or go down onto the lovely sandy Newborough beach from here you can walk to the isolated and beautiful Llanddwyn Island.

One side of this forest is edged by the beautiful long Newborough sandy beach. This is a fantastic natural attraction on Anglesey, that all the family can enjoy. It has an abundance of cycle tracks and nature trails.

This amazing forest is accessed via a road which is about a mile long and the current toll is £4 or a annual pass can be purchased for £35.

There are about 4 smaller car parks on the perimeter of the forest that still remain free, these are situated on the A4080 road.

WALKING AND CYCLING PATHS IN NEWBOROUGH FOREST

The forest at Newborough has various mapped out trails allowing you to choose from either easy, medium or long and are colour coded to make it as easy as possible to stay on the appropriate paths. At various stages along the paths there are information signs, informing you of wildlife and nature that can be found in the forest.

DISABLED ACCESS

Close to the main car park a wooden ramp and path has been specially constructed that now makes it extremely easy for wheelchair access.

Able bodied people can get a view of the beautiful Newborough beach and across to the stunning Llanddwyn Island. Various picnic tables have also been built on this extended wooded pathway.

Newborough forest is another strong hold for the Anglesey Red squirrel and like the other places where it lives on Anglesey there are no grey squirrel’s, in fact Anglesey is now the second largest population in the whole of Wales.

The stability of the sand dunes on Newborough beach has been a constant problem for many years. During early 1940 it was decided to start the plantation of the forest, the two main reasons were to create an extra cost effective supply of wood during the “war years” and secondly to stabilise, the ever shifting sand dunes, which are constantly battered by south westerly winds. Newborough Forest continued to expand into the early 1970’s.

The type of Pine tree planted in Newborough Forest is the Corsican Pine which is a fast growing Pine, which usually grows 30 to 70cm a year.

Red Band (Dothistroma Septosporum)

Like many pine forests throughout the United Kingdom, Newborough forest is now suffering with the disease Dothistroma septosporum, more commonly know as red band.

This fungal disease affects the needles of conifers, but is mainly found on pine. Over 60 species have been reported to be prone to infection.

This devastating tree disease, originates from Europe, and has increased over the years with the relaxed import laws of timber entering the United Kingdom due to the membership of the EU.