Places

• The Forest (Bannisdale), a highest point in the English Lake District
• The Forest railway station, New South Wales, a train station in Australia that is no longer in use
• Forest Café or The Forest, a café and community center in Edinburgh, Scotland

Film

• The Forest (1982 film), an American horror film directed by Donald M. Jones
• The Forest (2002 film), a Portuguese film directed by Leonel Vieira
• The Forest (Australian film), a 2003 Australian film directed by Jo Kennedy
• Le silence de la forêt, also known as The Forest, a 2003 multilingual Central African Republican film
• The Forest (2005 film), a Cambodian horror film directed by Heng Tola
• The Forest (2009 film), an Indian film directed by Ashvin Kumar
• The Forest (2016 American film), a horror film directed by Jason Zada
• The Forest (2016 Thai film), a supernatural drama film directed by Paul Spurrier

Other media

• A 2017 French crime drama series called The Forest
• An album titled The Forest, released in 1991 by David Byrne
• A novel named The Forest, published in 2000 by Edward Rutherfurd
• A play titled The Forest, written in 1871 by Alexander Ostrovsky
• A survival horror video game called The Forest, released in 2018