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5 Best Activities In Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Saltburn's catalogue is small and pleasantly Victorian. A cliff lift, a miniature railway and a mining museum: three of the five entries were inherited rather than designed for modern families, and they work better for it.
Saltburn Cliff Lift solves the problem every visitor eventually has, which is the walk back up. Saltburn Miniature Railway is a short ride that small children ask to repeat immediately. Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum is the wet-day answer and Airtime Trampoline Park the other one. Port Mulgrave Beach is a rockpool-and-fossil shore rather than a deckchair one.
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SightseeingSaltburn Miniature Railway
SightseeingSaltburn Cliff Lift
BeachesPort Mulgrave Beach
Trampoline ParksAirtime Trampoline Park
MuseumsCleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
12 more within 10 miles of Saltburn-by-the-Sea
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Redcar Leisure Centre
Runswick Bay
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The Moors National Park Centre
Five entries, evenly split between roofed and open, in a town small enough to cover on foot. That balance makes Saltburn easier to plan than most of the North Yorkshire coast, provided you accept that a whole week here would mean looking further along the shore.
Visiting Saltburn-by-the-Sea with kids: FAQs
What order should we do things in?
Work with the hill rather than against it. Come down first, spend the middle of the day at sea level with Saltburn Miniature Railway and the shore, then use Saltburn Cliff Lift to get everyone back up without complaint. Doing it the other way round means the steepest part of the day arrives when the children are most tired, which is a reliable way to end an outing badly.
Is the beach the main event here?
It is a large part of it, but Port Mulgrave Beach is a specific sort of shore and worth understanding first. It suits children who want to turn rocks over, look for fossils and get properly muddy, rather than families expecting soft sand and easy swimming. If that is your children, it is one of the best entries on this page. If it is not, the railway and the cliff lift carry more of the day.
What works with very small children?
Saltburn Miniature Railway is the obvious one, since a short ride at low speed is close to a perfect toddler activity and it can be repeated without much effort. Saltburn Cliff Lift counts as a ride in its own right at that age. Airtime Trampoline Park usually runs sessions aimed at younger children, so it is worth checking the timetable rather than turning up and hoping.