📜 Donna Nook National Nature Reserve is a coastal strip in North Lincolnshire, England, also home to a secluded bombing target range.
🔍 Each year, grey seals return to give birth to pups near the sand dunes.

Why Go

🌊 Witness an annual wildlife spectacle of grey seals pupping 👨‍🏫 Learn from committed volunteers with encyclopedic knowledge 🚶 Easy access to the viewing area 🌳 Explore diverse habitats including sand dunes and saltmarshes 🐦 Explore diverse bird life and plant communities

Why Avoid

⚠️ Part of area is Ministry of Defence bombing range; do not enter if red flags flying 🐕 Dogs not permitted in the seal viewing area due to disease risk and disturbance 🚗 Weekends during seal season can be very congested with traffic management

Tips

🗓️ Best time to visit is early morning on a weekday during seal pupping season (late Oct-Dec) 🚫 Do not feed or pet seals; mothers may abandon pups if they smell of humans or dogs 📸 No flash photography in the seal viewing area 🚫 Follow seal guidelines: stay behind fence

💰 Cost Car parking charges apply; free to visit the reserve.

🕒 Hours Reserve open all year; seal viewing area and facilities are seasonal (late October to early January), dawn till dusk.

🅿️ Parking Main Car Park (privately operated, paid: £5/car, £10/coach, cash/card, portaloos, no disabled access, open seal season only); Stonebridge Car Park (free, limited disabled bays, ramp access, Environment Agency maintained, open all year). Formal traffic management on busy weekends.

🚻 Toilets Portaloos (including wheelchair accessible) in main car park during seal season; public toilets in North Somercotes.

♿ Accessibility Easy access to viewing area from Stonebridge car park (signposted as blue badge holders only during busy weekends).