North Wirral Coastal Park

Extending from Meols to Wallasey, the North Wirral Coastal Park at over 4 miles long, is one of Wirral's largest and busiest parks. Facilities include sand dunes, grassland and freshwater wetland accessed by a network of footpaths, cycleways and horse riding routes. The park is adjacent to three of the cleanest Environment Agency designated bathing beaches in Europe. Lifeguards patrol the beaches throughout the summer. Kitesurfing and windsurfing are popular at the adjacent Leasowe Bay and Wallasey Beach for which suitable car parking is provided. At the heart of the park is Leasowe Lighthouse, an 18th Century beacon light that helped provide mariners with a safe route to the River Mersey and Liverpool between 1763 and 1908. The Lighthouse is open on selected weekends throughout the year for guided tours by the Friends of Leasowe Lighthouse. The North Wirral Foreshore is an internationally protected site, providing a feeding and roosting ground for thousands of migrating and overwintering birds and is probably the best site on the UK mainland to see Leach's Storm Petrels.