As part of Deb, John and Taffs “Motorhome Tour of the North” I decided to combine three previous Tiggy Tours and throw in a touristy hotspot too.
This route combines the Saltburn Trig Point and the Saltburn to Skinningrove tours with a little bit of the Saltburn Pier tour thrown in for good measure. After the Pier, for an extra bit of touristy-ness, we went up the Saltburn Cliff Tramway.
Parking at the pay and display Cat Nab Car Park.
Follow the seafront east for a nice view of Saltburn Pier, checkout the Saltburn Pier tour for a bit more info on the pier and some pics of how it used to look before the end fell off.
Keep going a short distance along the seafront and the footpath by Saltburn Road past The Ship Inn and the pubs car park. The uphill path to take is on the right hand side of this pic below.
At this junction take the less steep track to the right.
Then follow the track through the fields and over the railway line up to the trig point. That part is covered in more detail here: Saltburn Trig Point. Here is Taff posing near the trig point.
Heading from the trig point down through a couple of fields to the clifftops and the Cleveland Way, turning right and following the path south down to Skinningrove. As you approach Skinningrove the Cleveland Way path heads downhill to the beach, then from the beach head onto the Jetty.
This view inland from Skinningrove Jetty shows the next part of the route, not back up the steps to the Cleveland Way, but up the ramp straight in front, to the clifftops.
A couple of pics of how the Jetty used to look:
After clambering up the track and turning right to the top of the cliff you pass alongside the fence at the cliff edge by British Steel Skinningrove.
This view shows the Cleveland Way steps below which you head down to the beach via, but we decided to take a different route to get back onto the clifftops.
Now its just a case of following the Cleveland Way north to Saltburn, alongside the railway line. I was hoping for an action shot of a train here, but it wasn’t until we’d passed that point that a train arrived.
Here’s a pic from the Saltburn to Skinningrove tour:
You’ll have to believe us here, this photo does kind of show Dolphins! One being the black dot in the middle of the pic. Too far to pick out with a mobile phone camera but we were lucky to see a few dolphins out to sea.
We continued to head along the Cleveland Way footpath, along the clifftops and back to Saltburn and The Ship Inn.
Taff had a bit of a rest at The Ship Inn, he knew there was more to come.
From the pub we headed to Saltburn Pier and then up the Saltburn Cliff Tramway.
The other coastal routes: