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Woodlands for forest bathing in Orkney

4 places in Orkney that suit forest bathing, with parking, paths and facilities on each page.

Berriedale Wood below the rocky outcrop of Grut Fea, Hoy, OrkneyBerriedale Wood, HoyThe UK's most northerly native woodland, in a glen on the RSPB Hoy reservePath at Muddisdale on the edge of Kirkwall, OrkneyMuddisdale WoodlandYoung community woodland on the edge of Kirkwall with easy, level-access pathsBinscarth WoodVictorian beech and sycamore wood above Finstown, one of Orkney's oldestHappy ValleyOne man's woodland garden along a burn in Stenness, with waterfalls and spring bluebells

Photos: Berriedale Wood, Hoy, Mike Shaw (CC BY-SA 4.0); Muddisdale Woodland, David Medcalf (CC BY-SA 2.0); Binscarth Wood (area photo): Binscarth Wood, Finstown. Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.