04-10-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com

‘A wildly beautiful place for autumn colour’: readers’ favourite UK forest trails

From Japanese acers at Westonbirt arboretum to the pines of Loch Ard, our tipsters share their top woodland days outAutumn is often wet – so why not embrace this, and visit one of Britain’s temperate rainforests in Borrowdale, near Keswick. Such forests are rare globally as well as in Britain. Not only can you observe the gorgeous autumn hues from the leaves of ash, birch and oak but you can see all manner of mosses, liverworts and lichens. The latter proliferate because of the clean
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