Best walks from St Annes-on-the-Sea
MapJump on a train, get off at St Annes-on-the-Sea Station and lose yourself in a beautiful hike for the day.
Blackpool North Station to St Annes-on-the-Sea Station
wonderful views over the sea to North Wales and to the Lake District. A very flat seaside walk on recently resurfaced, wide and smooth pedestrian-friendly paths from the station to the coast, then about three miles of off-road promenade. Towards St Annes the plotted route goes inland along a main road behind high dunes for over a mile and though it can mostly be walked along the sands instead. The promenade section can largely be walked along the beach or dunes, tides permitting, for a quieter, more scenic alternative. Public toilets along the prom are coin-operated.
Easy: 9km, gentle ascents.
Lunch: A never-ending supply of fish and chips and seaside refreshments along the promenade, and shops and cafes in St Annes.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
St Annes-on-the-Sea Station to Kirkham and Wesham Station
A very road-based route, hard-surfaced throughout, with some quiet country roads without pavements and some nicer off-road sections along Green Drive and the promenade between Lytham and St Annes. The Fylde is low-lying and wet and so field footpaths are often wet and poorly maintained. A variation using roads to avoid the flooded footpath at Eastham Hall.
16km.
Some quiet country roads have no pavements, and busier roads have narrow pavements (about a metre wide).