Karura Forest is the largest gazetted forest in Nairobi, Kenya. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Karura Forest due to deforestation. In light of this, several campaigns and efforts have been made by various agencies to reclaim the forest. With an advanced space technologies including remote sensing, Land Use/Land Cover changes can be monitored and determined efficiently for management and planning purposes. Satellite images taken in the years 1998, 2002 and 2018 were classified using supervised classification. Five distinct classes were identified in the satellite images which were ‘forest’, ‘shrub land’, ‘open area’ ‘bare land’ and ‘built up area’. In 1998, forest cover accounted for 89.88% of the land cover, shrub land accounted for 6.61%, and bare land and open area covered 3.06% of the total area while the built up area covered 0.50%. 2002 saw a 5.036% reduction of forest with coverage of 84.84%. Shrub land covered 5.53%, open area and bare land area 7.79% and built up area 1.84%. The year 2018 saw a difference in land use and land cover where forest cover accounted for 75.11%, Shrub land 7.68%, built up area 5.08%, bare land and open area 12.13%.This clearly show that Karura forest has undergone a mass destruction from its original state ,however there has been efforts to restore the forest by plantation of new trees which also serves as a threat to indigenous tree species found in the area. The national and international public institution allocated some parts of the forest while some forest land has been leased to corporate entities; therefore there is need to constantly monitor the trend of forest cover for better planning and management of the Karura forest.