Good for Families

Open access, clear paths, and enough scale to hold attention. These redwood places work well for a family visit.

14 places

Benmore Botanic Garden

Dunoon · Argyll and Bute

Home to one of the most impressive giant sequoia avenues in Britain. Planted in 1863 from seeds brought directly from California, the avenue of over a hundred sequoias creates a cathedral-like approach to the garden. The trees are now among the tallest in Scotland.

Open to public 1 source

Coast Redwood

Rhinefield Ornamental Drive

New Forest · Hampshire

A dramatic drive through a double avenue of coast redwoods planted in 1859. The trees now tower over 40 metres above the road and create one of the most striking woodland experiences in southern England. Part of the New Forest National Park.

Open to public 2 sources Free

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Westonbirt, The National Arboretum

Tetbury · Gloucestershire

Westonbirt is a major Forestry England arboretum in Gloucestershire, created nearly 200 years ago and now spread across a vast landscape of woodland and specimen plantings. Its collections include notable giant sequoias and coast redwoods among one of Britain’s great tree-focused visits.

Open to public 1 source

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Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest

Goudhurst · Kent

A arboretum in Goudhurst, Kent, England , dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides).

Open to public 1 source

Giant Sequoia

Bicton Park Botanical Gardens

East Budleigh · Devon

A Victorian-era botanical garden with one of the finest collections of conifers in south-west England, including impressive giant sequoias in the historic pinetum. The gardens have been accumulating remarkable trees since the early 19th century.

Open to public 2 sources

Giant Sequoia

Bodnant Garden

Tal-y-cafn · Conwy

Bodnant Garden is a world-famous National Trust garden in the Conwy valley, known for National Collections, Champion Trees, terraces, woodland, and broad seasonal interest. Its tree collection includes giant sequoias within one of the most celebrated historic gardens in Wales.

Open to public 1 source

Dawn Redwood

Bute Park

Cardiff · Cardiff

A large public park in the heart of Cardiff with several notable conifers including dawn redwood specimens planted in the late 20th century. The park follows the River Taff and offers one of the most accessible encounters with redwood species in the Welsh capital.

Open to public Free

Giant Sequoia

Emmets Garden

Ide Hill, Sevenoaks · Kent

Emmetts Garden is an Edwardian hillside garden in Kent with year-round interest, wide Wealden views, and a varied planting style across formal and wooded sections. Its tree interest includes giant sequoia within a family-friendly National Trust garden on one of the higher points of the Kent countryside.

Open to public

Giant Sequoia +1

Harcourt Arboretum

Nuneham Courtenay · Oxfordshire

Harcourt Arboretum is the University of Oxford’s tree garden at Nuneham Courtenay, offering pinetum plantings, woodland, meadows, and a quieter long-form walk beyond the city. Its collections include giant sequoias and coast redwoods among a broad arboretum landscape of rare and heritage trees.

Open to public 2 sources

Giant Sequoia

Killerton Estate

Broadclyst · Devon

A National Trust estate with fine giant sequoias in the historic hillside garden. Killerton was one of the earliest Devon estates to plant the newly introduced sequoias in the 1850s and 1860s. The trees stand prominently on the wooded hillside behind the house.

Open to public 1 source

Giant Sequoia

Sheffield Park Garden

Uckfield · East Sussex

Sheffield Park Garden is a Grade I listed National Trust landscape of lakes, woodland, and historic parkland in East Sussex. It is especially strong on large specimen trees and autumn colour, with giant sequoias among the heritage conifers that give the garden its grand scale.

Open to public 1 source

Giant Sequoia

Tatton Park

Knutsford · Cheshire

A National Trust managed deer park and gardens with notable giant sequoias planted in the Victorian walled garden and pleasure grounds. The sequoias at Tatton have grown to impressive size and complement the estate's extraordinary collection of heritage trees.

Open to public 1 source

Coast Redwood

Tollymore Forest Park

Newcastle · County Down

Tollymore Forest Park is a large public forest at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, with river walks, bridges, open glades, and an old arboretum landscape. The arboretum planting began in 1752 and includes heritage trees alongside redwood interest within one of Northern Ireland’s best-known parkland forests.

Open to public 1 source Free

Giant Sequoia

Tyntesfield

Wraxall · North Somerset

A spectacular Victorian Gothic estate managed by the National Trust, with giant sequoias in the woodland gardens. Tyntesfield was built and planted by the Gibbs family in the 1860s–1880s and represents one of the best-preserved Victorian estates in England. The sequoias date from this period.

Open to public 1 source

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Giant Sequoia Places

The giant sequoia — the largest tree by volume on Earth — was introduced to Britain in the 1850s. These are standout places to encounter it across the UK.

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Free to Visit

Redwood places that are open to the public at no charge, with straightforward access and no ticket needed.

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Best for Photography

Dramatic avenues, towering groves, and atmospheric woodland — places that reward a camera and a slow walk.

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