Cayton Bay Holiday Park

The beaut beach of Cayton Bay is within walking distance and has a surf school that caters to all levels and offers board and wetsuit hire. Like most of this part of Yorkshire coast, this beach is an eggs-cellent spot for birdwatching, and fossil hunters find rich pickings here too in the form of gastropods, starfish and coral. Ornithologists should also flutter along the coast to Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs to gaze at the only colony of gannets on the British mainland, viewable even on wet days via the CCTV at the Flamborough Head visitor centre. North Yorkshire’s seaside capital Scarborough is a quick drive from Cayton Bay Holiday Park – or catch a bus from the stop 10 minutes’ walk from the site. Inland from here is equally action-packed: the sporty options and more stunning scenery of the North Moors National Park, the historical highlights of grand old York, and, if you travel a little further, roaming around the history sites, caving and watersports of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.