In forested areas,the chief risk from climate change is an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, caused not so much by warming,as by more extended drought periods. This applies not only to the conifer forest of North America and the eucalypt forests of Australia, but also to tropical and subtropical rainforests, which have hitherto been too wet to carry fire except at the margins of agricultural clearancs. From an adventure tourism perspective there are four considerations. The first is that a burnt forest is generally much less attractive to tourists than an unburnt one. the second is that the impacts of fire and the impacts of tourists may interact,and land management agencies may therefore close burnt areas to visitors, including commercial tours,to allow opportunities for recovery. The third is that tourist access to forest areas requires infrastructure,ranging from roads and tracks to lookout towers,treetop walks, and forest lodges. These represent singnificant capital investment,and if they are burnt it may take some time for them to be replaced. Finally,though at a longer time scale,any type of forest which is burnt more frequently than in the past may suffer ecological change, being replaced by a different type of vegetation. Whether individual giant trees or particular wildlife species, changes at ecosystem scale may effectively destroy the key tourist attractions.