Forest bathing at Gortin Glen Forest Park

Gortin Glen covers 1,534 hectares six miles north of Omagh, at the western edge of the Sperrins. It opened in 1967 as Northern Ireland's first forest park set in a conifer plantation, and the woods are mostly lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce, with a wider mix along the Ladies View Trail. Larch disease has been found in the Lislap East area, so follow the biosecurity signs.

Start at the main car park, which has plenty of space and Blue Badge bays. The Park and Education Trail is a gentle kilometre past the deer and wildfowl enclosures. The two kilometre Pollan Trail, through pine and spruce to a waterfall, is a good one to walk slowly. Ladies View climbs for wide views, and the seven kilometre Mullaghcarn Trail goes up to the giant sculpture. The park opens early and closes late, but can shut at short notice for forestry work or bad weather, and new facilities are being built, so parking may change.