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02/11/2026

Winter opening hours from tomorrow

01/11/2026

Witches aren’t just for Halloween... 🪄

To celebrate the festive season, we’ve given our a seasonal refresh and packed it full of new festive surprises ❄️

Come to Hamsterley Forest and search for magical baubles to help Witch decorate her Christmas tree.

Grab your £4 activity pack on-site and let the fun begin 👉 Know before you go see our site information link in our bio
Launching Saturday 7th November

01/11/2026

Make Hamsterley Forest part of your routine.

With a Forestry England membership, you'll get free parking throughout the year and help us care for the forest, trails and wildlife.
£60
Join today 👉

Support the forest you love Save money and get free parking for a year, plus a range of great benefits and discounts with Membership to Hamsterley Forest. By becoming a member, you'll help support our forests and maintain the facilities for you and your family to enjoy. You'll also receive seasonal....

01/11/2026

Real Christmas Tree Sales
1st December to 13th December.
Buy your real christmas trees from our sales center.
Stock includes Fir and Spruce trees from £27
Make a day of it with free parking with every tree purchased, members enjoy additional 10% off

01/11/2026

Run to remember🌹

Join us at Hamsterley Forest on the 8th November for our remembrance 5 Miler & 10 Miler.🏃‍♂️

An 11:02am start allows us to take a moment before the race to remember, honour and reflect on the service and sacrifice of our fallen soldiers.🪖

Visit: www.RunNation.co.uk (link in bio 🔗)

31/10/2026

What a beautiful day today was in the forest 🌳 blue skies, Autumn colour . Amazing parkrun fancy dress and all those happy sauna and dip participants thanks to all that make this forest community great Happy Halloween thanks to all that have bought decorated pumpkins , supported our Gruffalo Granny day this week , tried our new Glow Golf , enjoyed our Halloween ROTB trail or just been for a run ,walk or bike ride .

Your Hamsterley Forest Team

30/10/2026

Skip the indoor venues for some fresh air and beautiful Autumn Colour in the forest this weekend.

Your spooky Halloween weekend starts here with Waymarked walks, runs and bike rides. A slower pace for you? not a problem bring a picnic try our wellbeing walk, wellbeing wood ( along our forest drive) or book a sauna session with The Conscious Self

🌲Parkrun spooky special ( feel free to pop your best Halloween costume on) Saturday only
🌲Sauna hosted by The Conscious self pre boking essential Saturday only.
🌲ROTB family Halloween fun trail last weekend for our current trail packs £4 from cafe / info point ( all ages)
⛳Disc Golf hire from 10am - 3pm at the info point ( suitable for teens and adults)
🧭 Orienteering maps £1.50 from info point ( suitable for teens and adults)

Cafe and Danny Harts Decend Bike park open all weekend.
Members park for free, Day rates apply otherwise Website link in Bio for membership sales and parking rates.

Have a colourful weekend from Your Hamsterley Forest Team

30/10/2026

There’s some spooky magic in the air at Hamsterley this Halloween 🎃✨

Join Witch and her friends on a magical adventure to help find her missing hat, bow and wand 🪄

Pick up your £4 trail pack, which now includes a special Halloween crossword activity, look out for magical cauldrons, and see where the trail takes you.

Ready for a spellbinding adventure? Know Before you go for site information link in bio

29/10/2026

Thanks to all our visitors, volunteers, storyteller, Hamsterley Cafe and Hamsterley Team that made Storytelling with Gruffalo Granny and The Gruffalo himself such a success. We welcomed over 150 children to the event

The forest also looked splendid in its Autumn colours.

This weekend is the last chance to try our ROTB Halloween Trail before it magically turns into our ROTB Christmas Trail.
Do share any photos of the day on our page 😁
Your Hamsterley Forest Team

29/10/2026

Love Hamsterley Forest parkrun, love Halloween its your lucky weekend run, walk, volunteer this Saturday for a fun filled morning.

🎃👻 Saturday Halloween parkrun 🌳
Calling all witches, wizards, ghosts, ghouls, skeletons and slightly suspicious-looking runners… 🧙‍♀️
This Saturday, 31st October, we’re celebrating Halloween at parkrun, and we want you to join in the fun! 🎃
🦇 FANCY DRESS IS COMPULSORY! Well… compulsory-ish!
Whether you’re running, jogging, walking or volunteering, we’d love to see you dressed for the occasion.
Go all out with a terrifying costume, throw on a witch’s hat, or just dig out those Halloween leggings. Anything goes!
See you there!

Address

Hamsterley Forest, Bedburn
Bishop Auckland
DL133NL(FORMAINCARPARKPLEASEDON'TENTERINTOSATNAV,FOLLOWBEDBURNINSTEAD)

Website

http://www.forestryengland.uk/hamsterley

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