Flat, calm, and quietly wild — a gentle walking 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 — especially in the Suffolk section, where rivers, fens, and woodlands meet timeless villages and nature reserves.
Walkers here will find easy-going terrain, excellent wildlife, and peaceful trails that follow riverbanks, wind through reeds and wet woodland, and connect small waterside communities. From Oulton Broad to Beccles, and across to Somerleyton, Carlton Marshes, and the Waveney Valley, Suffolk’s Broads landscape is ideal for slow, immersive exploration.
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.
These featured trails pass through or begin in the Suffolk Broads — each suited to gentle, self-guided exploration.
