Downhill Forest

Downhill Forest is a small mixed woodland of 83 hectares just inland from the North coast, near Castlerock.

There are two waymarked paths in the forest; one is just over one kilometre long while the other is two kilometres in length. The Ulster Way also runs through part of the forest.

Part of Downhill forest is linked into a province-wide cycling network called Sustrans (Route 93), running from the Mussenden Road down through mixed woodlands to Burrenmore Road.

The North West Orienteering Club have also created a orienteering course in the forest.

A walk through Downhill forest will allow you to view one of Northern Ireland's fattest sitka spruce (in 1962 the girth was approximately six metres), an Early Christian Promontory Fort and an old water powered sawmill with its lead running round the small lake in the middle of this woodland.