Top 20 Most Visited Coillte Recreational Parks

Coillte  announced details of its Top 20 most visited recreational forests in Ireland according to visitor statistics recorded in 2024. The data shows a 10% uplift in the number of visits to Coillte’s most popular recreational forests year on year, demonstrating that more and more people are enjoying the outdoors in their local Coillte forest.

Avondale Forest Park in Co. Wicklow ranked in first place with almost 350,000 visits recorded last year. Avondale Forest Park is home to the visitor destination Beyond the Trees Avondale which officially opened in July 2022. In addition to Avondale House, the home of Charles Stewart Parnell, it now boasts a unique Treetop Walk and Viewing Tower, Ireland’s longest slide and for the Halloween season, will offer a Spooktacular Halloween Twilight Trail and family fun activities.

Rossmore Forest Park in Co. Monaghan, which boasts a variety of walking trails around Rossmore Castle, surrounding lakes where fishing is available, family cycling trails, and nature tracks, attracted the second highest number of visits in 2024, with over 340,000 visitors recorded. Ticknock in Co. Dublin, which offers several walking and hiking trails, as well as mountain-bike tracks and orienteering courses, followed in third place with over 260,000 visits last year.

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