Our top reserves

Whisby Nature Park is a beautiful landscape near Lincoln with stunning lakes, walks and trails. Once barren and lifeless, this amazing place now abounds with wildlife. The park was created by quarrying for sand and gravel, but nature has reclaimed the pits and bare sand, creating habitats for many species.

Gibraltar Point is a dynamic stretch of unspoilt coastline running southwards from the edge of Skegness to the mouth of the Wash. The reserve impresses by its sheer scale and diversity of wildlife but to appreciate it fully you need to see it in different seasons.

There's always something to see or hear when looking out over the reedbeds of Far Ings. Whether it's the sound of the reeds as they sway in a gentle breeze, the song of hidden warblers or bearded tits, the eerie boom of a bittern, or a mass of wings as the starlings display in a murmuration over the estuary.

The attractive valleys of Snipe Dales, fretted by streams, offer wonderful views of the southern Lincolnshire Wolds. The reserve is one of the few semi-natural wet valley systems still surviving in Lincolnshire and consists of mixed woodland in the Country Park and wet valleys, grassland and scrub in the nature reserve. 

Willow Tree Fen has been recently transformed from arable land growing beans and cereal to a more traditional fenland landscape of shallow meres, seasonally flooded pastures, hay meadows and reedbeds. The fenland attracts a large numbers of waterfowl such as wigeon, teal, mallard, and waders including lapwing, redshank and snipe.

For much of the year grey seals at Donna Nook National Nature Reserve are at sea or hauled out on distant sandbanks. Every November and December, the seals give birth to their pups near the sand dunes: a wildlife spectacle which attracts visitors from across the UK.

Woodhall Spa Airfield was formerly the home of four RAF squadrons, but more recently was used as a sand and gravel quarry. As a nature reserve it is now a haven for wildlife as well as a place where visitors can share in the unique and peaceful atmosphere of this former airfield.

The Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park is an initiative led by Lincolnshire County Council. It covers the area between Sandilands and Chapel St Leonards and contains wildlife-rich areas including five established nature reserves managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

The partners in the Coastal Country Park project aim to widen the appreciation of this fantastic environment, provide high quality facilities and countryside access for people and better protection for wildlife.