Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Three miles east from Porthcurno over the Treen Cliff to a working fishing cove, two hours with 170 metres of climbing and the turquoise water of Pedn Vounder below you most of the way. Start at the Porthcurno beach car park, which also serves the Minack Theatre and empties and fills with performances; the Treen car park is an alternative halfway along. Most stiles are fine although two stone ones have a bar at the top that some dogs need help over, there are horses and other livestock grazing the clifftop, and the drop off the Treen Cliff path is severe and unfenced.
Coarse shell-white sand at the foot of the valley below the Minack, with granite cliffs on both sides. Dogs are excluded only in July and August between 10am and 6pm, which leaves the shoulder months clear. The path east towards Pedn Vounder runs along unfenced clifftop above a very long drop.
Five and a half miles west round the last corner of the peninsula, three hours with 300 metres of climbing, passing the Minack Theatre and a holy well before the coastwatch lookout on Gwennap Head. It starts at Porthcurno and runs out past Porthchapel, where the stream crosses the sand; Porthgwarra has its own small car park and cafe at roughly the halfway point. One stile has a gap a very large dog will not fit through, though a gate alongside solves it; Porthchapel allows dogs all year, Porthcurno and Porthgwarra do not in the peak weeks, and Gwennap Head is high, unfenced and exposed.
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