Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Skegness, Lincolnshire
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🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entrySeasonal opening🐐 Animals🏖 BeachEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
£2 for 2 hours or £5 all day, ticket machines cash only, seasonal passes available. Two car parks (North and Visitor Centre); car park closed at dusk.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Gibraltar Point is a 437-hectare stretch of Lincolnshire coastline extending about three miles south from Skegness, with sandy and muddy seashores, sand dunes, salt marshes and freshwater habitats. You can follow waymarked walking trails through the reserve, use bird hides, and spot seasonal wildlife: in spring and autumn visible migration can be impressive, while winter brings wildfowl including brent geese, wigeon and teal, and birds of prey such as hen harrier and merlin. The visitor centre has a café, gift shop and facilities including accessible toilets and baby changing. Most paths are level and well surfaced though may be muddy; some hides are wheelchair accessible. Dogs must be on a lead and are not permitted on the beach and foreshore from 1 April to 1 September.
In spring, the first of the migrants stop off to refuel or establish territories. In summer, little terns may be seen fishing in the shallows and skylarks are in full song above the purple haze of the saltmarshes. In autumn, huge whirling flocks of waders can be seen on the high tides. And in winter, wildfowl include brent geese, shelduck, wigeon and teal, with birds of prey including hen harrier, merlin and owls. Visible migration can be impressive during spring and autumn.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Dummy and a spare
- Sun cream
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Sit-upon mat
- Changing mat
- Binoculars
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