About the reserve

MWT Hairpin Woodland Park is a place where people can enjoy, experience, explore, and better understand Manx nature, and the important conservation work of Manx Wildlife Trust. A great day out and memorable countryside visit that is an asset to the Island’s visitor offering. MWT Hairpin Woodland Park is where MWT meet new audiences and enable them to foster closer relationships with nature, while helping existing users build a deeper understanding and empathy with the site.

MWT Hairpin Woodland Park is a Biosphere project in partnership with The Isle of Man Government, Rotary Club of Douglas and Milntown. As a nature reserve, HWP is managed to protect the Island’s rarest woodland plants and create a nature-rich environment, with the native woodland ecosystems created, managed and conserved to benefit wildlife. Careful long-term woodland management will create resilience through diversity, and long-term carbon sequestration through an ecosystem approach that promotes older trees, larger volumes of deadwood and soil health. Through skilful nurturing, rare species and an abundance of wildflowers, birds and invertebrates will flourish in idyllic woodland scenery. Novel carbon-farming approaches will be demonstrated to inspire farmers, gardeners and local landowners.