Spurn north beach from the Discovery Centre

This is the only walk at Spurn that dogs may do, and the rule is worth reading before you drive down. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, which owns and runs Spurn National Nature Reserve, allows dogs through the gate at the end of Spurn Road but requires you to turn north at the start of the beach: dogs cannot be taken south along the beach towards the point and the lighthouse, because those routes are inside the Site of Special Scientific Interest. Turning north from the Discovery Centre gives you an open shingle-and-sand shore under a low crumbling clay cliff, with the Humber estuary birds offshore and no shelter of any kind. The Trust asks that dogs are on leads and that you clear up, and signs on the reserve mark where you may walk. Dogs are welcome inside the Spurn Discovery Centre itself, which has the café and the toilets.