You can easily spend the day walking around the trails. Hickling is home to a significant percentage of UK population of common crane, important breeding numbers of bitter, marsh harrier, bearded tit and cetti’s warbler. You’ll almost certainly see a barn owl and kingfisher if lucky. Mammals include chinese water deer, red deer and illusive otters. Insects specialities – the swallowtail butterfly and the Norfolk hawker dragonfly.

Drive Time: 18 minutes

Little terns arrive back on UK shores in April and May, where they breed on sand and shingle beaches, spits or inshore islets. Around 300 pairs of the little tern colony arrives from Africa to rest and raise their chicks. Protective fences are raised around the colony to protect them however you can visit and watch them from a good distance. They are present until August/September.

Drive Time: 23 minutes

A designated SSSI, SPA and SAC site, home to a range of habitats and wildlife. Walk round the reedbeds, woodlands and meadows and chance upon seeing bitterns and kingfishers. Each season brings an abundance of life. Spring displays of courting pairs of marsh harriers ‘sky-dancing’, song from sedge and reed warblers. Meadows come alive with rich displays of wild flowers and variety of butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies including the beautiful swallowtail butterfly.

Drive Time: 26 minutes

The Norfolk Coastal Path is 84 miles starting in Hunstanton in West Norfolk round to Hopton-on-Sea onthe Suffolk border. The trail is runs through the dramatic landscape of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

From shingle to marshland to gold sandy beaches you won’t be disappointed with the beautiful scenery and beaches Norfolk has to offer.

Ferrygate Camping has welcomed many walkers and cyclist campers who have been walking the many scenic and beautiful pathways through Norfolk.

Go right at the river and you can walk alongside the water to the village of Somerton then pick up the trails and head to Winterton-on-Sea or even further.

Go left at the river and walk as far as Great Yarmouth passing historic landmarks along the way. Potter Heigham has a selection of cafes and a chip shop as well as the famous medieval bridge dating back to 1385. A low-arched structure, a notorious test for novice boaters! Continuing on you’ll pass the beautiful white Thurne Mill. For 200 years it has been a distinctive part of the landscape finishing its working life in 1936.

Norfolk offers some beautiful scenic routes both on and and off-road.

Download or carry an OS Map and you’ll be able to explore some super hidden gems. Whether you’re looking for a few miles to slowly discover or to reach further afield achieving more miles. Along the routes you’ll find tearooms, and coffee shops to help keep you fuelled or alternatively a well deserved bag of chips on the coast.

We really do have something for everyone.