JURASSIC COAST
WALK (4 days walking)

Our driver will be at your nominated collection point at the agreed time to collect you, your team and all your kit. We greet you at Exmouth we’ll cook you a hearty meal, run through the plan for your Jurassic Coast adventure and then leave you and the team to rest for the evening.

Your first day on the trail will follow Exmouth’s famous long sandy beach. Soon you reach the Geoneedle and the Jurassic Coast Path begins proper. The red sandstone on this, the oldest section of the (pre!)historic path, dates back more than 200 million years! You pass the partially eroded Iron Age Fort at High Peak. Why not stop at Peak Hill for a scenic photoshoot? Snaffle an ice cream in one of Sidmouth’s many beachfront parlours before you marvel at the Norman Lockyear Observatory. A short climb up Weston Beach Cliffs takes you out of Salcombe Regis. Then you’re heading on to the beautiful Branscombe Beach, the Hooken Cliffs and following the curve of the coast around to Beer Head and beyond to Seaton, where camp no 4 will be.

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Beyond Seaton you’ll find Axmouth and the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff Nature Reserve. A major highlight of the Jurassic coast, the untamed Nature Reserve is home to orchids, ferns and fungi. It is also well worth a small detour to Lyme Regis’ Fossil Beach. There, the Ammonite Pavement astounds with an abundance of fossils littering its glistening shores. There are more ice cream opportunities in Lyme Regis before passing through charming Charmouth and tackling the Golden Cap. The longest climb of the whole tour takes you to the highest point on the south coast where you’ll be afforded stunning views of your path already walked and that yet to come.

After conquering the Golden Cap you head to the oldest human settlement in Dorset at over 10,000 years old, Doghouse Hill. After a final ascent up Thorncombe Beacon, you are lead gently down onto West Bay. You can amble along a diversion from the official Coastal Path Route today and opt for a beach walk under the looming cliffs of Westbay – as featured in the TV show Broadchurch – all the way to the picturesque village of Abbotsbury. Beyond Abbotsbury the 13 km long twitchers paradise of Fleet Lagoon, home to dunlin, oyster catchers, little egret and ringed plovers, awaits, before coming to rest just outside of Fleet.

The final day of your hike is the most urban setting you’ll have encountered for the past week, beginning by walking around Weymouth Bay. Beyond Sandsfoot Castle andNothe Fort, you’ll take in the length of Weymouth Esplanade and pass by RSPB Lodmoor Nature Reserve, home to bearded tits and Cetti’s warblers, gulls, ducks and kingfishers. Rejoining the quite coastal path, long ascents reward you with fantastic views over Ringstead Bay. Soon after, you arrive at the ancient rock archway of Durdle Door. Finally you reach the alluring Lulworth Cove. Here we can arrange a fish BBQ on the beach with locally caught produce to celebrate conquering one of the oldest trails in the UK.

You did it! Congratulations on the completion of your Jurassic Coast walk! After a hearty breakfast you’ll be on your way, we’ll get packed up and follow closely behind to drop all of your kit back home again for you.

There are plenty of options if you’d like to extend your Jurassic Coast adventure with Nine Yards. We can move the start or end point, add rest days to take in some of the historic sights and get lost in villages, or add a day sea kayaking if that’s what you’re into. Get in touch and we can talk through the options.