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Foxglove Covert Explorer Trail

Catterick Garrison · DL9 3PX
N 440 YD
2.5MILES
2hON FOOT
60mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 100% 0% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 88%Lane & track 12%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
Foxglove Covert Field Centre car park, Catterick Garrison DL9 3PX DL9 3PX
Parking
Reserve car park at the Field Centre, five pounds per vehicle, free for Friends of Foxglove and volunteers; it is small and fills on fine weekend mornings and during school holidays
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A hundred acres of moorland, ancient woodland, willow carr and open water on the western edge of Catterick Garrison, the first Ministry of Defence nature reserve in the country. Dogs are allowed on the reserve and inside the Field Centre, but the reserve is explicit that they must be on a lead and under close control at all times, and the visitor rules add that the lead should be a short one and that you should stay on the paths. The Explorer Trail is the full green-marked circuit at four kilometres, taking in Risedale Beck through four-hundred-year-old woodland, the lake hide and Spigot Mere; the yellow Discovery Trail at 2.2km and the red Easy Access Trail at 1.1km are shorter options from the same car park. Photographic identification is no longer needed because the reserve is not reached through the barracks any more.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs must be on a short lead and under close control at all times, and walkers must stay on the marked paths. Reserve open weekdays 9am to 5pm, weekends and bank holidays 10am to 4pm; closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.3683, -1.7542
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.FOXGLOVECOVERT.ORG.UK/ABOUT/FREQUENTLY-ASKED-QUESTIONS
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The Foxglove

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A large Hungry Horse family pub inside Princes Gate Shopping Park on Richmond Road, in the middle of the garrison. Greene King's facility list for the pub includes Dog Friendly alongside the beer garden, car park and disabled facilities, with no area excluded, which makes it the easiest place in Catterick Garrison to get a dog indoors and fed at the same time. It opens at nine in the morning for breakfast and serves food until nine at night, and the car park is free and large, which matters here because the town centre parking fills at school run and lunchtime.

In the bar In the dining room
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