Best / wildest / most remote forest in the UK for wild camping and bushcraft?

[Billy1]

Hi

I'm planning a trip this winter to go a forest and practice bushcraft for a week.

I'm looking for a large natural forest (no plantations) where wild camping and open fires are allowed (so somewhere in Scotland probably).

I've found a few spots in and around the Cairngorms that could possibly be suitable, but I was hoping that someone who has done something similar might have first hand experience on where is good to go?

Cheers!

 

[Filterhoose]

There is a cracking natural Caledonian Pine forest a short walk from the Linn o' Dee traveling north up Glen Lui. I've camped there a few times. It is at the start/end of the Lairig Ghru/Lairig an Laoigh near Derry Lodge. Also if the weather gets a bit brutal there is Bob Scott's bothy for refuge.

Hope this helps

Windy

 

[Quixoticgeek]

How about one of Britains very own rainforests?

http://www.nnr-scotland.org.uk/taynish/nature-and-culture/scotlands-rain-forest/

No idea what the permissions are like, but it would be a good test of your skills.

Julia

 

[Goatboy]

How about one of Britains very own rainforests?

http://www.nnr-scotland.org.uk/taynish/nature-and-culture/scotlands-rain-forest/

No idea what the permissions are like, but it would be a good test of your skills.

Julia

+1 to that, similar to Loch Maree in that evidence suggests that the trees are descended from ones that escaped the last ice age. Both lovely places.

 

[Teepee]

For a more bushcrafty trip, Knapdale and the Faerie isles that Julia linked to will offer more than the cairngorms area. Cairngorms are more fragile anyway and heavily used. Both are favourite haunts of mine.

Lots of natural shelter around Knapdale and the Faeries. Beavers/otters to go and see (it's where Springwatch filmed the beavers) and plenty of Ospreys.

 

[Filterhoose]

Ospreys in Africa topping up their tans
😜

 

[Teepee]

Ospreys in Africa topping up their tans
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Good point mate.

 

[snozz]

Knapdale looks good - trip in the spring methinks!