Saltburn By The Sea

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Any Saltburn residents able to tell me whether it’s likely to be utterly rammo at the weekend?

Have had to cancel camping weekend with DS as the place we were supposed to be going is in an area that’s got incredibly high covid rates at the mo and it just didn’t feel right... But don’t want to swap that for somewhere where it’s too busy to feel safe! (Also as someone who lives in a popular inland tourist spot, I don’t want to add to an overcrowding problem for locals...)

DS is obsessed with fossils so thought it might be a good shout?

Also pls no shit from other posters about my perceptions of risk and covid- I have long covid over a year after contracting the disease, and am only vaccinated once. I know I’m being very cautious cancelling our camping trip but that’s my choice.

TIA

I wouldn’t have thought it would be rammed although possibly fairly busy due to warm weather

Saltburn was absolutely heaving over last weekend. We couldn't get parked so ended up driving to Staithes. If you are set on fossil hunting, though, you should try Marske beach between St Germain's and Cliff House. There were so many devil's toenails among the pebbles, I was picking them up and rejecting them for not being fancy enough!

I find it never gets rammed. Probably because parking is a pain /limited and there’s not lots there. Lots of smaller beaches nearby and I find late on it quietens down a lot.

This is all super useful- thanks! We’re taking the (horrifically) early train so not worried about parking - and not lots to do is fine for my super-fossil obsessed 4yo, who also it turns out, has a nascent gambling addiction (honestly - he was doing the 2p slots 2 handed with a stack of coins in each palm when he was just 3 🤣) - so swerving seaside arcades etc is a blessed relief.

I find that even at busy times if you go early it's fine for a couple of hours at least. If I want to go anywhere, I just go really early then I'm ready to come home by the time it gets really bad.

I'm forever grateful that most people tend to do things at the same time, so I can go at a different time and easily avoid the worst of the crowds.

Yes, it's likely to be busy, beach areas should be ok if the tides out because it's huge - just please, please be careful under the cliff overhang(the bottom end past the ship) because of the overhang, not so bad at the moment as we've had fairly dry weather but I've stood and watched rock falls from there, I don't know if the signs are still up, they should be because if you're not local you might not realise, and the tide has been known to cut people off that are absorbed too.

The x4 bus will bring you to the bottom of Loftus bank, or you can walk along the cliff path (again, some has been lost to the wet weather we had in summer, not been up there personally to see if they've diverted foot paths etc) and from there you can walk down through skinningrove village and onto the beach, that might be a bit busy in nice weather but not as busy as saltburn.

As someone else said, Staithes might be worth a go if Saltburn is too busy.