Deep in the forest

Why these made the list

• Ace Hideaways

  The Findhorn Valley delivers on canopy: pitches sit in forest clearings, not at the edge of one.

• Aldridge Hill Camp Site

  Open heathland meets genuine forest canopy, with free-roaming ponies as your closest neighbours.

• Alpine Grove

  A touring park that earns its woodland billing, old oaks and beeches with rhododendron screening between pitches, and the canopy is thick enough to matter on a hot day.

• Ashbourne Woods Campsite

  Sixty-eight acres of Devon canopy, fire pit on every pitch, and pitches spaced so far apart the trees fill the gaps between you.

• Battle Pods & Bells

  Ancient High Weald canopy on an East Sussex estate, 75 minutes from London and dark enough to feel genuinely far away.

• Blair Drummond Caravan Park

  Ancient woodland and a sheltered walled garden keep Blair Drummond feeling properly tucked away despite the easy road access.

• Bluebell Camp Site

  Woodland pitches with fire pits under a full canopy and no road noise.

• Bluebell Coppice Park

  Ancient East Sussex coppice with badgers in the trees and bluebells on the floor in spring.

• Dragonfly Woodland Camping

  Ten private woodland clearings on an organic Pembrokeshire farm, where the trees close in around your pitch and dawn arrives late.

• Bridgewood Camping - Woodland camps

  Six acres of ancient Dorset woodland managed for wildlife, with five pitches hidden in the canopy and deer moving through at dusk.

• By the Way

  A small woodland clearing in the national park, with the West Highland Way passing the gate and tree cover keeping the pitches shaded and private.

• Camp Wight

  Ancient semi-natural woodland with individual oak-framed clearings and no light pollution to interrupt the canopy at night.

• Cefn Coed

  Ancient woodland pitches within a 75-acre Eryri estate, where the canopy holds the dark and Cadair Idris fills the gaps in the treeline.

• Celtic Woodland Holidays

  Ancient woodland pitches with fire areas in the canopy, string lights at night, and mature trees to hang a hammock from.

• Chase Camping

  Cannock Chase's ancient heathland and oak woodland begins across the road, with the Tolkien Trail accessible on foot from your pitch.

• Chiltern Retreat

  Woodland pitches in the Chiltern Hills where owls are a reliable alarm clock and the canopy arrives before the dawn does.

• Cobleland Campsite

  Oak-canopy woodland pitches on the edge of Loch Ard Forest, with the River Forth audible from the quieter spots.

• Cotswolds Camping at Holycombe

  Whichford Wood begins at the site boundary, with Shakespeare's Way passing through.

• Denny Wood

  Old-growth New Forest oak and fern with pitches defined by fallen timber rather than rope, the canopy is the facility.

• Digs in the Wig

  Ancient Pembrokeshire woodland, five pitches spread far enough apart that the trees fill in everything between you.

• Ditchling Camp

  Woodland pitches on the South Downs fringe, each with its own fire pit and a host who keeps the place immaculate.

• Doward Park Campsite

  Pitches in the canopy on top of Great Doward, with woodland trails running from the gate.

• Dreamy Hollow Woodland Campsite & WW1 Trenches

  Thirty individually screened pitches in 7.5 acres of private Norfolk oak woodland, each with its own fire pit.

• Earth Camp

  Wooded pitches in the High Weald with dark skies overhead and fairy woodland at the edge of the field.

• Eden's Nook

  Dyfnant Forest starts at the fence line, and the site opens directly onto its trails.

• Embers Polesden Lacey

  Set within 1, 400 acres of National Trust woodland in the Surrey Hills, with trail access from the gate.

• Escape Pods

  Ancient Norfolk pinewoods with exclusive-use clearings and campfires that make the canopy glow amber after dark.

• Fire and Stars Woodland Camping

  Private pitches spread through 48 acres of National Forest, canopy overhead, fire pit yours alone: the woodland doesn't feel decorative here.

• Forest and Wye Valley Caravan and Camping Site

  Set between the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley, with heavy canopy walking available from the moment you arrive.

• Forest Edge

  Thirty acres of East Devon woodland, spacious pitches under genuine tree cover, and the kind of quiet that means you notice birdsong.

• Glentress Forest Lodges

  Glentress Forest wraps the site on all sides, with the 7stanes trail network starting at the road's edge.

• Goytree Glamping and Treehouses

  Heavy-canopy woodland on an 18-acre organic farm, where solar is the only power and dawn arrives with birdsong rather than a phone alarm.

• Greener Glamping

  Cynwyd Forest canopy overhead and mountain trails two minutes from the yurt door.

• Hammonds Glamping

  Bell tents in a wooded Surrey field with fire pits and National Trust woodland on the doorstep.

• Happy Valley Norfolk

  Fir canopy, glades, a lake with a bridged island, and the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve running alongside: the woodland here is the real draw.

• Hollington Park Glamping

  Ten acres of ancient woodland on the North Wessex Downs edge where dawn genuinely arrives late through the canopy.

• Into The Sticks

  Woodland camping on a nature reserve with river boundaries, morning birdsong, and paths through the trees that keep children occupied for a week.

• Inver Coille

  Highland canopy beside Loch Ness, with the Great Glen Way threading straight through the pitch area.

• Jurassic Airstreams Spa Glamping

  Set inside Blackdown Hills AONB woodland with mature canopy overhead, Hartridge Springs is genuinely in the trees rather than adjacent to them.

• Kilvrecht Caravan & Camping

  Heavy canopy above Loch Rannoch, stone shelters for when the weather turns, and trail access into the Black Wood of Rannoch from the pitch.

• Knepp Wildland Campsite

  Ancient Sussex woodland frames this rewilding estate, where the tree canopy is expanding year on year and dawn chorus arrives with genuine wildness.

• Koa Tree Camp

  Set in North Devon woodland with valley walks leading out from the site and a canopy that gives the stay its character.

• Lampeter Caravan and Camping

  Teifi Valley woodland with Ceredigion hills framing the communal fire pit, trees, not tarmac, from arrival to departure.

• Landsker Camping

  Seventeen tree-sheltered pitches in Pembrokeshire woodland, where the canopy gives each camper a slice of quiet even at full capacity.

• Lickham Bottom Camp

  Thirteen acres of Blackdown Hills woodland with a stream underfoot and no neighbours in earshot.

• Little Menherion

  Three owner-built cabins in Cornish woodland on the flank of Carnmenellis, where the stream is always audible and dawn arrives late through the canopy.

• Low Wray Campsite

  Pitches distributed through mature woodland give Low Wray a genuine sense of seclusion that a 129-pitch site has no right to offer.

• Nether Oaks Camping

  Eleven acres of oak planted in 1890, with private glades cut into the canopy and a communal fire at the centre.

• Newberry Valley Touring and Camping Park

  Sixty acres of ancient North Devon oak woodland, split across three levels, with a fishing lake at the centre.

• Newbourne Woodlands Campsite

  Seven acres of Suffolk woodland with meadow clearings: you choose how much canopy you want, and the trees do the rest.

• Noblewood Camping

  Proper canopy overhead, ponds in the clearings, and bats on the wing at dusk, Noblewood earns its name.

• North Norfolk Camping & Glamping

  Woodland pitches around a swan lake on the Norfolk AONB fringe, with genuine darkness and fire pits by the water's edge.

• Noxon Farm

  Ancient woodland closes in on all sides; the Forest of Dean begins at the farm boundary.

• Nyth Robin Campsite

  Pitches set among woodland with a brook, a forest trail, and estuary views when the trees thin out.

• Oak & Ash & Thorn in the Cotswolds

  120 acres of ancient beech, yew, and chestnut in the Cotswolds AONB, with named veteran trees and no other campers within earshot.

• Oakwood Caravan & Camping Park

  Ancient oak woodland within Cairngorms National Park, with the mountain range as backdrop and pitches pitched under the canopy.

• Owley Woods Glamping

  Wooded hillside above the Mendips, active with bats, badgers and deer, with the Gorge Walk starting from the footpath below.