Best walks to or from St Annes-on-the-Sea

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).

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route

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 Circular via Ashton Gardens

Level circular of St Anne's, a planned Victorian-Edwardian 'Garden Town by the Sea': Ashton Gardens, the promenade, the Pier and the 1886 Mexico-disaster lifeboat memorial.

3km.

Documented by Community Rail Lancashire (PDF).

Ansdell and Fairhaven Station to St Annes-on-the-Sea Station

Coast path — Lancashire Coastal Way.

4km.

Documented by Railwalks.