Helen’s Bay & Crawfordsburn

WHERE

📍Grey Point, Helen's Bay, Bangor BT19 1JX

📍 Bridge Road South, Helens Bay, Bangor, Co. Down, BT19 1JT

INFORMATION

💷Free

🅿️Parking Free at both Helen’s Bay & Crawfordsburn

🚾Toilet, baby change in both car parks

☕️ Cafe in Crawfordsburn Country park @Woodland Cafe

ℹ️ Visitor centre open 10-5pm with maps and an interactive display about the local environment and wildlife.

This is a 241 day out, With Helens Bay beach and Crawfordsburn Country park.

Helen’s Bay is located on the northern County Down coast, The beach is safe, clean, and easy to reach it’s just to the west of the town of Bangor. It’s only a 20-minute drive from Belfast. With some great views across Belfast Lough towards Whitehead and the Blackhead Lighthouse. The beautiful beach is around 5km in length, a lovely sandy beach with clear water great for taking a dip, it has even been awarded a Green Coast award. Helens Bay beach is backed onto by the wooded headlands of Crawfordsburn Country Park.

Crawfordsburn is great for wee explorers to go on an adventure. Shady woodland walks, streams to splash through, and wide grassy patches for running. One of the park’s best loved secrets is its waterfall.

A newly refurbished play park is just up the road from the car park at Helens Bay. The whale themed play park is vibrant and fully enclosed with safety surfacing throughout.