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: August 18, 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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