University of Leicester Botanic Garden
A giant sequoia anchors the Cedar Grove, with a dawn redwood nearby, at this teaching garden in Oadby near Leicester. Free.
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Redwood places that are usually open to the public without a ticket, with straightforward access and a simple arrival.
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Abbey Park
All three redwood types stand along the tree trail at this Victorian park in central Leicester. Free, open access.
Sefton Park
A fluted-trunked dawn redwood by the lake is a local favourite in this Victorian park in south Liverpool. Free, open access.
West Park Local Nature Reserve
A giant sequoia stands among the grassland and woodland of this nature reserve on the edge of Uckfield, East Sussex. Free, open access.
Clyne Gardens
A giant redwood marks the signposted tree trail through these botanical gardens above Swansea Bay. Free entry.
Havering Country Park
A 19th-century carriage-drive avenue of giant sequoia on the ridge above Romford, east London. Free, open at all hours.
Wavertree Botanic Gardens
A Victorian botanic park in Liverpool, laid out in the 1830s, with a dawn redwood that turns copper in autumn. Free public park.
Knighton Park
A marked tree trail with all three redwoods — giant sequoia, dawn and coast — in this postwar public park in Leicester. Free.
Harris Garden
A mature giant sequoia and coast redwood among the woodland of Reading University's garden at Earley, Berkshire. Free, open from 8am.
Treborth Botanic Garden
Coast redwood and giant sequoia grow in Bangor University's teaching garden on the Menai Strait near Bangor, Gwynedd. Free.
Wellingtonia Avenue, Crowthorne
Free public B3348 lined with over a hundred giant sequoia near Crowthorne — one of the world's finest Wellingtonia avenues.
Wynkcoombe Arboretum
A private Sussex collection near Fittleworth with all three redwoods, including a 'Blue Wellingtonia' giant sequoia. Free, open year-round.
Calderstones Park
A 19th-century estate tree collection in south Liverpool, with all three redwoods on its heritage tree trail. Free, open access.
Wellingtonia Avenue, Heatherside
Free Victorian avenue of giant sequoias planted 1865, winding through the Heatherside estate near Camberley.
Bradgate Park
Giant sequoia stands among the ancient oaks of this historic deer park in Charnwood Forest, near Leicester. Free.
Victoria Embankment Gardens
A dawn redwood among the mature trees of this riverside strip beside the Thames in central London. Free, open to all.
Holehird Gardens
Giant sequoia and dawn redwood among the specimen trees of this hillside society garden near Windermere, Cumbria. Free, donation welcomed.
Crawfordsburn Country Park
A coast redwood stands among estate exotics in the wooded glen above Belfast Lough, near Bangor, County Down. Free.
Castlewellan Forest Park (Annesley Garden & Arboretum)
Free to walk in (parking charge for cars): the Annesley Garden's extraordinary 19-trunked giant sequoia, near Castlewellan, Co Down.
Evington Park
All three redwoods recorded together in the mature parkland of this former manor on Leicester's eastern edge. Free, open access.
Langley Country Park
Giant sequoia in avenues on the high ground, plus coast redwood, in this Capability Brown park near Iver, Buckinghamshire. Free.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The John Muir Grove of 1920s giant sequoias at Edinburgh's botanics in Inverleith, with coast and dawn redwoods too. Free (glasshouses ticketed).
Lynford Arboretum
Walk the 1800s Sequoia Avenue, a double row of giant sequoias in Thetford Forest near Mundford, Norfolk. Free, open access.
Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden
A dawn redwood among the specimen trees at this free Didsbury garden between the Mersey and Stenner Woods, south Manchester. Free.
Valley Gardens
Giant sequoia and coast redwood line the wooded walks of this Windsor Great Park garden near Englefield Green, Surrey. Free, paid parking.
Croxteth Park
Dawn redwood, bronze in autumn, grows in the woodland of this 500-acre country estate on Liverpool's edge. Free, open access.
Southport Botanic Gardens
A dawn redwood, copper-leaved before autumn fall, stands in this 1870s Victorian garden at Churchtown near Southport, Merseyside. Free.
Jesmond Dene
Giant sequoia and dawn redwood among the exotic conifers Lord Armstrong planted in this wooded river valley in Newcastle. Free.
Royal Victoria Park
Giant sequoias from the trees' first arrival in Britain stand in Bath's 1830 arboretum park, with coast redwood alongside. Free, open access.
Sheffield Botanical Gardens
A Grade II listed 1836 garden near Sheffield city centre where giant sequoia and coast redwood join the conifers. Free.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden
Giant sequoia rises in the arboretum of Aberdeen University's botanic garden in Old Aberdeen. Free, open access.
Hughenden Park
Three towering giant redwoods stand across the bridge in this municipal parkland below the NT's Hughenden estate, near High Wycombe. Free.
Sandringham Royal Parkland
Waymarked woodland trails through the royal estate near King's Lynn, Norfolk, pass mature giant sequoia, coast and dawn redwoods. Free, open access.
Bedgebury National Pinetum
One of the world's great conifer collections in the Kent Weald, with totem-pole coast redwoods among sequoia and dawn redwood. Free.
Rhinefield Ornamental Drive
The Tall Trees Trail loops past towering redwoods on this Victorian forest drive near Brockenhurst in the New Forest. Free, open access.
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