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Visitor updates

As an operational Estate, we will always try to keep you updated with essential work and/or events that are taking place that may affect your visit. Please check here before you travel.

Visitor updates

Before you visit download a map to your smartphone as well as familiarise yourself with the Park code. Take a look here.

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When walking in and around Windsor, please be aware that brown-tail moths are currently nesting in hedgerow and bramble. The hairs of these caterpillars can cause stinging and/or a skin rash.

More information can be found here.

While we carry out essential maintenance work there is reduced pedestrian access between The Savill Garden and The Long Walk. 

Please follow the diversion signage that is in place. 

Roadworks will be carried out by Openreach between 24 and 26 May on Wick Lane. 

Please follow the diversions signs that are in place. 

Queen Anne's Ride

To help with the restoration of the ground, Queen Anne's Ride will be closed Monday - Friday. It will be open Saturday - Sunday and Bank Holidays. Please observe the signs and rope barriers which are in place for your safety.

The Picnic Field car park

Due to poor ground conditions, the Picnic Field car park on the A332 will be closed Mondays - Fridays from Monday 31 January until further notice.

Alternative parking to visit the Great Park can be found here.

The Great Park map can be found here.

Ground levelling and drainage work is taking place on Smith's Lawn and there is no public access across the polo fields at this time. The road across Smith's Lawn will remain open.

Work will last to at least the end of summer 2022.

Please observe the signs and barriers, which are in place for your safety.

If you have, any questions please email:  [email protected]

The Deer Park will be closed for operational reasons on the following dates:

  • Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 May 2022
  • Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 June 2022

We are preparing the Totem Pole for restoration work which has been delayed as a result of the pandemic.

Working with Canadian specialist restorers and direct descendants of Chief Mungo Martin, the original carver, the Totem Pole will be lowered later this year before a lengthy period of drying, repair and restoration. Although still fundamentally sound, an exclusion zone has been placed around the pole to guarantee the safety of all.

This important landmark in the Great Park needs careful restoration so that it can be enjoyed by future generations in complete safety. The restoration work will follow the complex operation of lowering the Pole.

Crown Estate representatives were present in Vancouver in November 2018, when an identical pole - see pictures, carved by Chief Mungo Martin at the same time as the Windsor Pole, was lowered from its position outside the Vancouver Maritime Museum. The lessons learnt from this will allow us to safely lower the Windsor Pole, whilst at the same time ensuring that all necessary First Nation customs, are observed, as preserving heritage and tradition is as important as preserving the fabric of the pole.

Warm weather warning - There can be the temptation to enter the areas of open water in Windsor Great Park but please do not enter or attempt to swim at any of the ponds or lakes in the Great Park.

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Here are just some of the potential risks of entering the water:

  • Hidden currents
  • Underwater hazards
  • Unexpected water temperature 

 

The Leptis Magna Ruins will be fenced off until further notice so that we may carry out essential maintenance work. Our website will be updated when the work has been completed.

Wet lawn areas of The Savill Garden are closed to allow the ground to rest and for grass to re-establish. These closures only effect certain routes within the Garden and will not impact your experience when visiting.

 

Birds are nesting on the ground in areas of the Forest.

Please follow any signage on your visit to avoid disturbances.

To give chicks the best chance of survival:

  • Keep to the main paths
  • Keep dogs out of vegetation

Thank you for helping to protect our special wildlife.

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