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Rendlesham Forest Trails – Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail loop from Rendlesham Forest

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Rendlesham Forest Trails – Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail loop from Rendlesham Forest

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Rendlesham Forest Trails – Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail loop from Rendlesham Forest

03:08

12.1km

60m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 14, 2026

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Your route passes through a protected area

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Suffolk and Essex Coast and Heaths National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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13 m

Rendlesham Forest Parking Area

Highlight • Rest Area

Toilets and Visitor centre with free forest map guides

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172 m

Rendlesham Forest Trails

Highlight • Cycleway

Brilliant network of forest trails in Rendlesham around the Woodbridge Airfield. Extensive and well signed cycle trails and footpaths too which are ace for kids. A gravel rider's paradise!

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571 m

Rendlesham Forest

Highlight • Trail

A sprawling 3,700-acre (1,500 ha) mixed woodland, Rendlesham Forest is owned and managed by Forestry England. There are plenty of trails here for walkers and cyclists, with picnic spots and …

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1.56 km

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Highlight • Forest

Rendlesham Forest is a beautiful and curious location in Suffolk, ideal for those interested in extraterrestrial encounters. Follow the trails and be taken on a journey through the forest where, …

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1.95 km

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Highlight • Forest

The UFO Trail in Rendelsham Forest is a trail excursion inspired by a UFO sighting in December 1980. Follow the trail through forest, heathland and wetlands!

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1.95 km

Rendlesham UFO Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

After the first sightings in the 1980's near Woodbridgr Air Base the final resting place of the extraterrestrial object has been identified.

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4.83 km

Bush Covert

Forest

6.71 km

Boyton Dock Ruins

Highlight • Structure

This peaceful area was the height of activity at two points in history. During the 1600s, there was a clay boom here that saw this dock used in the transportation …

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12.1 km

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Highlight • Trail

Rendlesham Forest was planted as commercial woodland in the 1920s.

The forest was the setting for a well-known UFO incident in 1980. Servicemen at RAF Woodbridge saw lights in the …

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12.1 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.63 km

4.24 km

1.96 km

331 m

Surfaces

5.97 km

2.28 km

1.77 km

1.69 km

192 m

132 m

Elevation

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Thursday 18 June

29°C

17°C

0 %

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Rendlesham Forest Trails – Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail loop from Rendlesham Forest

Rendlesham Forest Parking Area

Rendlesham Forest Trails

Rendlesham Forest

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

Rendlesham UFO Sculpture

Boyton Dock Ruins

Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail

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