🌊 Coast
Ravenscar seal colony
Grey seals haul out on the rocks below the old alum works and can be watched from the cliff path.
Moderate · Circular
Photo: habiloid , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
🌊 Coast
🌊 Coast
🏰 History & heritage
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Ravenscar to Hayburn Wyke
Cliff path south to a waterfall beach, back along the old railway through woods.
Distance10 km / 6.2 miles
Time3 hours
GradeModerate
RouteCircular
Take the Cleveland Way south from Ravenscar along the cliffs past Beast Cliff, the highest on this coast, and drop into the wooded cove of Hayburn Wyke where the beck falls onto the boulder beach. Climb out to the Hayburn Wyke Inn and return north on the Cinder Track, level and mostly shaded.
- Several steep flights of steps on the coast path
- Beach is rocky; take care on wet boulders
- Pub at the half-way point
Things to see nearby
🌊 Coast
🌊 Coast
Hayburn Wyke
A waterfall that tumbles straight onto a boulder beach in a wooded cove south of Ravenscar.
🏰 History & heritage
Ravenscar alum works and National Trust centre
The remains of a 17th-century chemical industry on the cliffs, and the story of the resort that never was.
More walks
Moderate
Hole of Horcum and Levisham Moor
A full circuit of the great amphitheatre with views into Newton Dale and a possible steam train below.
Moderate
Roseberry Topping circular
Short, steep and hugely rewarding: the classic climb to the moors' most recognisable summit.
Moderate
Danby Beacon and the Moors Centre
Riverside path, a climb to the beacon and a return over Oakley Walls with the Esk Valley spread out below.