Highgate Wood

We had a lovely day to see the bluebells. I have never been there before. The bluebells are near Cranley Gate. Turn right at the gate as you enter the wood.

I do love a walk around Highgate Wood, as there definitely is a sense of calmness and happiness whilst walking through these peaceful & spectacular woodland surroundings! 🪵🌳

Besides from the trail & large open spaces, the other facilities being available are a cafe and toilets. ☕🚾

Upon my recent visit, I was delighted to have found 1 out of the 25 donated benches from Netflix, in which commemorated Ricky Gervais's 'After Life'. 🖥

Traveling to and from Highgate Wood is very convenient. Especially with Highgate Station (Northern Line, High Barnet branch) being located opposite and there being a variation of bus routes stopping outside the park and in the high street. 🚉🚍

Beautiful old wood - still quite rusty. The dogs love it - a squirrel emporium! And on the hotter days we have been having the shade is welcome, cooler ground for their paws - a haven when the open spaces feel more like purgatory than pleasure!

Highgate Woods has been my favourite place to walk for 28 years. It has everything... enough wildness to get lost for 20 minutes , a lovely sports field where you can watch the cricket in summer, free outside weight training then to cap it all a lovely cafe taken over by Hoxton Beach, fairly priced and delicious. The cafe is covered in summer by wisteria and is a delightful place to meet friends whilst listening to the woodpeckers.

Highgate wood is a beautiful place to go for a relaxing walk, by yourself, with kids or even to exercise your dogs. It's big and well kept considering it is a wood. There is plenty of wildlife to peak at respectfully.
We visited yesterday for the first time in a while and the woods look beautiful with the autumn leaves on the ground and falling from the trees. There is a playground for children with public toilets next to it, a big open field and across the other side, you can relax by the little cafe. Looking forward to going back.

I visited here in April 2022 as part of walking the Capital Ring route around London. This is a nice woodland for walks.

It's a Wooderful (get it) place. Beautiful large nature area, woods, fields, cafe, toilets.
It's lovely around 8 at evening in summer as fairly quiet and peaceful.
Only thing I don't like is that you get asked to leave at 9pm as they close Nature for the night. Coming from the country I've never heard of such a thing. A whole woods being closed 😂😂

Love this place. The forest is just amazing... For a walk/run/jog, just over a mile for 1 lap. Brilliant in the searing heat. Superb cafe in the middle. Don't go on the weekend, it's really busy. Unless of course you like that.