Flat, calm, and quietly wild — a gentle walking and outdoor adventure landscape of rivers, marshes, and big skies.
While the Broads National Park is often associated with boating, it’s also a beautiful and underappreciated destination for self-guided walking holidays and outdoor adventures — especially in the Suffolk section, where rivers, fens, and woodlands meet timeless villages and nature reserves. Close to destinations like Oulton Broad, Beccles, and Somerleyton, and with trails such as the Angles Way on your doorstep, it’s a perfect base for nature-rich, slow exploration.
Walkers and adventurers will find easy-going terrain, excellent wildlife, and peaceful routes that follow riverbanks, wind through reeds and wet woodland, and connect small waterside communities. From Oulton Broad to Beccles, and across to Carlton Marshes, the Waveney Valley, and the quieter corners of the Norfolk border, Suffolk’s Broads landscape invites you to move at your own pace.
This is a place to walk softly, look closely, and let the landscape do the talking.
Easy trails and boardwalks through Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s flagship reserve, with excellent birdwatching and waterside scenery.
A charming market town with riverside paths, access to Angles Way, and links into the Broads walking network.
Quieter, more rural — walk to the famous windpump, along the Waveney, or through parkland and forest near the historic Somerleyton Hall.
A patchwork of woods, heath, and water — walk from Lound Lakes through to Fritton Woods and the edge of the Norfolk Broads.
A 93-mile long-distance trail following the River Waveney, with easy sections between Oulton Broad, Beccles, and beyond.
