STEAM COAST TRAIL

Shiny Happy People! The opening celebrations of the Phase Two trail behind Washford Station brought brilliant sunshine and hundreds of wonderful locals on their bikes, skates, mobility scooters showing their support. Styles Ice Cream sold a shed load of ice creams from their ice cream bike, Country Grill helped keep everyone well fed with cakes, burgers and cups of tea and Andy from Minehead EYE put on brilliant games of scooter limbo a...

Storm Eleanor's swell and high tides threw a lot of mud, shingle and water onto the Steam Coast Trail last week. #holyshingle

Fortunately, the power of the storm was no match for the power of the community that rallied together to clear it all up in no time!

Expecting inundation like this a few times per year, the Steam Coast Trail have a restoration budget for cleanup and surface repair. Thankfully the restoration fund stands to last a v...

Volunteers are assembling at 10am on Saturday 6th January to clear mud, rubbish and stones. If you would like to help, please bring your own bin bags / gloves / shovels. Limited free parking at Blue Anchor for access to the Steam Coast Trail along the shingle bank. Parking at Dunster Beach is FREE for the weekend thanks to Dunster Beach Holidays.

Thanks very much to everybody who's offered to volunteer so far.

Thanks very much to the West...

Thank you very much for joining us for the 'Grand Opening' of Phase One of the Steam Coast Trail! It was a beautiful morning, and really was the perfect opportunity for a post-Christmas ramble and to test all the new Christmas toys!

You can see the full collection of photos on facebook here! Please message us if you have any photos you'd like to add to this collection. Also let us know your thoughts and feedback on how you found the trai...

If you’ve walked between Dunster Beach and Blue Anchor recently you would have noticed the first section of the ‘Steam Coast Trail’ being developed at an impressive rate. In fact, it’s been completed ahead of schedule, and will be open to the public over the festive period! To celebrate, please join the Steam Coast Trail team at Dunster Beach at 10am on the 27th December. Everybody is welcome to join us on foot…. or bike, or skates or s...

Thanks very much to Keith Hunt from Old Cleeve, and to BR Stephens in Blue Anchor who have both written some thought provoking letters to the West Somerset Free Press of late in response to our front-page article on January 29th. Keith Hunt, one of many supporters of the Steam Coast Trail, quite rightly comments (Free Press, 13th Feb, above) on the danger of cycling on Eastbury Hill (the B3191 between Blue Anchor and Carhampton) and th...

A little bit worried about the potential for backlash of this Gazette statement, we thought we'd pop a quick note up about the Steam Coast Trail's estimations for job creation and economic benefit.

The first thing to note is that the CCF funding of £637k will not create 140 posts. This figure relates to the wider Steam Coast Trail project, the calculations for which are below.

The Steam Coast Trail will create both direct and indirect...

A PROJECT that will, in time, create 140 jobs in West Somerset (see justification here) has landed over £637,000 from the Government...

In fact, it's been a record funding week for half a dozen projects across the South West to benefit from £36 million Government investment to boost jobs and growth in coastal communities.

The Steam Coast Trail is the vision for a breathtaking network of multi-user paths around West Somerset. It will weave walkers, cyclists, runners and wheelchair users through 36km of glorious countryside and in and out of picturesque heritage towns an...

Letters published in the Free Press on Friday 7th March that hopefully go a long way to anwer M Passmore's concerns (see previous post: Cyclists Help Themselves!). Len Gurnett adding a great comment about the Olympics!

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