Walkway

Your journey through the forest on the Treetop Walk begins as the boardwalk makes its way out over the Avonmore River valley and as the land falls away you will soon see spectacular views from Lovers’ Lookout across the valley.

The forest habitat surrounds you and the natural gradient of the land means that although the walkway does not climb or descend more than a few degrees you will see all the different levels of trees around you from ground level right up to the forest canopy. At one point the walkway is over 23 metres above the forest floor.

Along the walkway you pass through Avondale Forest’s Arboretum, a collection of the finest trees in Ireland. You can learn interesting details about the famous trees that you are passing by and you can find the ones that were planted by Samuel Hayes over 300 years ago or during the Great Tree Experiment when Avondale was a Forestry Experimentation Station in the early 1900s.

Upto 23m
Above forest floor
Wildlife
Viewing

Play areas for the young and young at heart can be found along the boardwalk to encourage you to take a different view of the forest around you.

Two distinct platforms along the walkway display a variety of interactive games that explore both the birds and the animals and their habitats in the surrounding forest.

Stories of the famous Parnell family and of Avondale Estate are weaved along the walk via accessible information stations with intriguing insights to what life at Avondale was really like in the past.

At the end of the walkway you will come back towards ground level and reach the Viewing Tower via a short underground tunnel where you will learn about the abundant life below the forest floor before emerging to see the spectacular Viewing Tower, and the next part of your adventure begins.