Built automatically from council rights of way records, traffic orders and OpenStreetMap data, and checked by Holloway. How we check it
Every mapped lane in the park
Inside the real park boundary. Numbers match the longest lanes list below. Tap the key to show or hide a layer.
See every lane’s name, surface and status.
Open the live map →What you can ride
92 mapped lanes and byways inside the boundary, by legal type.
Difficulty
All unridden, graded on OpenStreetMap surface data only.
Longest open lanes
Named lanes open to motorcycles, each measured end to end across all its mapped sections.
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Manor Road1.7 km
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2
Agars Lane1.4 km
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3
Mill Lane1.0 km
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4
Toms Lane0.9 km
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5
Badminston Drove0.8 km
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6
Merryfield Farm0.7 km
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7
Folly Drove0.7 km
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Hyde Common0.6 km
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Scenic roads and passes
Ordinary paved roads worth riding for their own sake, no rights of way question at all.
Questions riders ask
Can you ride green lanes in the New Forest?
Yes, on lanes with the right legal status. We've mapped 59 BOATs and UCRs inside the New Forest that are open to motorcycles, about 18 km in total. Another 32 restricted byways inside the park are for walkers, cyclists and horse riders only.
Are any green lanes in the New Forest closed?
We haven't found a named lane inside the New Forest with a current restriction yet. That doesn't mean there are none, so always check a lane's current status before you ride.
What is the longest green lane in the New Forest?
Of the named lanes open to motorcycles, Manor Road is the longest we've mapped inside the park, at about 1.7 km.
Are there GPX routes for the New Forest?
Not a ready-made one yet. You can build your own from the New Forest's lanes with Holloway Premium's route planner and export it as a GPX file.
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Open the map, free Or unlock route planning and GPX with PremiumLane data from OpenStreetMap contributors and council rights of way records. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Park boundary © Natural England / Natural Resources Wales, via OpenStreetMap, OGL. Reference only: legal status changes, check signage and current Traffic Regulation Orders before riding. How we check this data.