PLAN YOUR VISIT

Plan your trip to SO Festival. As well as enjoying the festival take time to explore the beautiful Lincolnshire coast. You’ll find maps of Skegness and Mablethorpe at the bottom of the page.

The Visit Lincolnshire Coast website also has detailed information for visitors to Lincolnshire.

Getting Here

Whether you’re travelling by bus, train or car, here are the links you’ll need to find information about public transport or parking.

Buses to Skegness and Buses to Mablethorpe
Trains to Skegness. The train station is 0.3 miles from the main performance areas
Parking in Skegness and Mablethorpe
Coach parks are available at Seacroft Road, Mablethorpe and Richmond Road, Skegness.

Staying Here

Why not make a make a weekend of it? Stay and enjoy the Lincolnshire Coast as well the SO Festival.

You’ll find a great range of hotels, Bed & Breakfasts, caravans and campsites on the Visit Lincolnshire Coast website.

Visit SO Festival and explore the East Lincolnshire Coast

Free or Low Cost things to do in Skegness and Mablethorpe

Skegness Pier
Skegness Beach
North Sea Observatory, Chapel St Leonards
Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary
Village Church Farm: Historic Museum, Skegness
G ibraltar Point National Nature Reserve
Mablethorpe Beach
Queens Park Paddling Pool, Mablethorpe
Shrewood Playing Field and Kids Park, Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe Skatepark
Cycling on the Promenade
Walk to the Tide and Time Bell, Mablethorpe
The Cloud Bar, Anderby Creek
Sandilands Nature Reserve, Sutton on Sea
King Charles III England Coast Path: Skegness to Mablethorpe

Activities in and around Mablethorpe and Skegness

Embassy Theatre
Altitude44: High Wires
Skegness Swimming Pool
Skegness Aquarium
Mablethorpe Fairground (Dunes Leisure)
Skegness Pier (Bowling, Clip n Climb, Escape Rooms, Soft Play etc)
Loewen Cinema, Mablethorpe
Lincolnshire AquaPark, Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary and Wildlife Centre
Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, Ingoldmells
Pleasure Beach Amusements, Skegness
Fantasy Island, Ingoldmells
Natureland Seal Sanctuary, Skegness
Gunby Eastate, Hall and Gardens (National Trust)

Beaches around Skegness and Mablethorpe

Anderby Creek

A long, sandy beach between Skegness to the south Mablethorpe to the north. A peaceful, tranquil place, away from the noisy tourist attractions.

The Cloud Bar at Anderby Creek is the UK’s first permanent cloud watching outpost. Inside, seats are specifically designed for cloud watching and self-operated parabolic cloud-mirrors to magic the sky down to the earth.

There is a car park on Sandy Lane with access to the beach via a path that crosses the sand dunes behind the beach. Toilets are located here, as well as a beach café, and a shop in the small village of Anderby Creek behind the beach.

Huttoft (Moggs Eye)

Huttoft Beach, also known locally as Moggs Eye, is a quiet, rural beach backed by grassy sand dunes. As well as plenty of room for beach games, the beach is used by swimmers, surfers, sea anglers and bird watchers. It is also quite popular with walkers, with a variety of good walks in the area.

There is a 150-space car park in Huttoft Car Terrace, toilets and a picnic area. There is a car terrace which pretty much allows you to park on the beach – from here, steps lead straight over the dunes towards the beach.

Theddlethorpe Dunes in Saltfleetby

The perfect beach for nature lovers with its unspoilt landscape of salt marshland and sands. A designated National Nature Reserve, with a range of habitats here including tidal sand and mudflats, salt and freshwater marshes and sand dunes.

Sutton on Sea

Known for its beach huts, this small coastal village is ideal for families and great for swimming. It’s much quieter than its neighbour Mablethorpe, there are regular buses from Skegness railway station and is just a short distance from Mablethorpe.

Sandilands

Sandilands is known for its beach huts and is also a dog-friendly beach all year round. You can park up at Roman Bank, where there are also toilets.

Winthorpe

Great for sailing and watersports. It is located just north of Skegness and offers an unspoilt beach to anyone wishing to make the trip.

Chapel St Leonards

The North Sea Observatory stands right on the coast. A sand and shingle beach, this beach is a popular place for swimming and for family days out.
It is also a good place for walking as the beaches stretch for many miles in both directions. To the south, the beach leads to Skegness, which is about six miles away.
A promenade runs alongside the beach and there are plenty more facilities such as toilets, pubs, restaurants, shops and places to stay in the town of Chapel St Leonards.

There are a number of small car parks in the town of Chapel St Leonards, each one a short walk from the beach. The largest is the Well Vale Car Park, located along Well Vale Drive, about 150 meters from the beach. The beach is accessed down a short flight of steps. Whilst it may not be the ‘quietest’ of Lincolnshire’s hidden beaches, it certainly still offers something different for those wishing to make a change from their regular trips.