Things to do in Saundersfoot
Within about 5 miles of Saundersfoot we list 36 places to go — 2 castles, 8 attractions, 8 museums and galleries, 6 nature reserves and viewpoints, plus 13 beaches and 1 walk.
The ones we've written up in full are Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust), St Catherine's Island & Fort, The Dinosaur Park — start there if you only have a day.
For a wet day there are 8 indoor options nearby: Llewellyn's Gallery, Guy Manning's Art Room, Tenby Museum & Art Gallery, Tudor Merchant's House and 4 more. Opening hours shrink hard out of season.
Everything below is ordered by distance from Saundersfoot, with the places we've written about in full listed first. Nothing on this page is paid for.
Castles and ruins near Saundersfoot
Pembrokeshire has more castles per mile than almost anywhere in Britain, because for four hundred years it was a frontier. Some are ticketed and roofed; some are a gatehouse in a field with nobody taking money.
0.9 miles from Saundersfoot
Photo: Stuart Logan (CC BY-SA 2.0)Amroth Castle
Castle2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
Attractions and days out near Saundersfoot
The paid days out — the ones that fill a whole morning and have a car park and a café.
Photo: M J Roscoe (CC BY-SA 2.0)Colby Woodland Garden (National Trust)
AttractionA National Trust wooded valley behind Amroth — walled garden, stream-side meadows, rope swings and wild play, minutes from the beach.
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
2.4 miles from Saundersfoot
Photo: TenbyIsland.co.uk (CC0)St Catherine's Island & Fort
AttractionTenby's tidal island — a Palmerston fort on a rock off Castle Beach, reached across the sand at low tide when it's open.
- Website
- saintcatherinesisland.co.uk
2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
The Dinosaur Park
AttractionTenby
Twenty-six acres of park and woodland at Gumfreston with over ninety life-size dinosaurs, a mile-long trail and dozens of rides and activities included in one ticket.
- Website
- thedinosaurpark.co.uk
2.8 miles from Saundersfoot
Great Wedlock Farm & Deer Park
AttractionDeer-park safaris and rewilded farmland on the estate behind Tenby's Dinosaur Park — the gentle, real-animal half of the same day out.
2.8 miles from Saundersfoot
Heatherton World of Activities
AttractionTenby
Free-entry, pay-as-you-play activity park at St Florence — around thirty activities from adventure golf and go-karts to a zipline and a tree-tops course, and properly dog-friendly.
Dogs welcome
- Website
- heatherton.co.uk
3 miles from Saundersfoot
Folly Farm Adventure Park & Zoo
AttractionBegelly, Kilgetty, SA68 0XA
Zoo, vintage funfair and indoor play — the county's rainy-day banker and a full family day out.
- Phone
- +44 1834 812731
3 miles from Saundersfoot
Photo: Garth Newton (CC BY-SA 2.0)Manor Wildlife Park
AttractionSt Florence, SA70 8RJ
Fifty-two-acre conservation-led wildlife park near Tenby — walk-through lemur and wallaby enclosures, Sumatran tigers, rhinos and red pandas, styled as Wales's only walking safari.
- Website
- manorwildlifepark.co.uk
- Opening hours
- Today 10:00–18:00
3 miles from Saundersfoot
Vintage Funfair
AttractionStep-free access
2.9 miles from Saundersfoot
Museums and galleries near Saundersfoot
Mostly indoors, which on this coast is a category of its own. Opening hours narrow sharply out of season, so ring before you drive.
Llewellyn's Gallery
GalleryIndependent art gallery in Tenby's old town lanes.
2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Guy Manning's Art Room
GalleryWorking artist's room in Tenby — paintings and prints sold where they're made.
2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Photo: Dragonwing88 (CC BY-SA 3.0)2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Tudor Merchant's House
MuseumQuay Hill, Tenby, SA70 7BX
- Phone
- +44 16 4662 3110
- Website
- nationaltrust.org.uk
2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
David J P Morgan
GalleryTenby photography gallery — Pembrokeshire land- and seascapes in print, a take-home view of the coast.
2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
The Naomi Tydeman Gallery
GalleryGallery of Tenby watercolourist Naomi Tydeman RI — sea-and-shore paintings born a few streets from the water they show.
2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
History of Coal Mining
Museum400 yards from Saundersfoot
The Habour Gallery
Gallery2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Nature reserves and viewpoints near Saundersfoot
Free, open whenever you turn up, and where a lot of the best of Pembrokeshire actually is.
Jubilee Park and Nature Trail
Nature reserve2.6 miles from Saundersfoot
Giraffe
Viewpoint2.8 miles from Saundersfoot
Lions
Viewpoint2.9 miles from Saundersfoot
Meerkat
Viewpoint3.0 miles from Saundersfoot
Red Panda
Viewpoint3 miles from Saundersfoot
Rhino
Viewpoint3 miles from Saundersfoot
Ancient and historic sites near Saundersfoot
Burial chambers, standing stones, holy wells and iron-age forts. Most are on open land with no gate and no charge; a few sit on working farms, so use the marked access.
Winding House
Historic siteThe old incline winding house above Saundersfoot — relic of the tramways that sent anthracite down through the tunnels you now stroll to the beach.
- Opening hours
- Open at all times
0.8 miles from Saundersfoot
Stepaside Ironworks
Historic siteVictorian ironworks and colliery ruins in the wooded valley behind Wisemans Bridge — furnace walls and tramways on the path where coal once rolled to Saundersfoot harbour.
1.8 miles from Saundersfoot
Coast Path Marker, Amroth
Historic siteThe southern terminus of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path on Amroth seafront — boots off, photograph taken, 186 miles behind you.
2.7 miles from Saundersfoot
Time Sequence
Historic site2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Trelessy Defended Enclosure
Ancient site3 miles from Saundersfoot
Activities, golf and the water near Saundersfoot
Coasteering, surf schools, kayaking, boat trips, and the two things everyone forgets to book until it's too late.
Caldey Island Boats
ActivitiesThe short seasonal crossing from Tenby harbour to Caldey Island — monks, chocolate and quiet beaches twenty minutes offshore.
2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Tenby Golf Club
GolfTenby, SA70 7NP
The self-styled birthplace of Welsh golf — an 1888 club and James Braid links on Tenby's Burrows with sea views to Caldey, a two-Rosette restaurant in the rebuilt clubhouse and stay-and-play rooms on site.
- Website
- tenbygolf.co.uk
3 miles from Saundersfoot
Parkland 18 holes in the wooded Ritec valley behind Tenby, with a well-liked bar-restaurant — the area's main inland course.
3 miles from Saundersfoot
Celtic Haven
GolfClifftop resort at Lydstep with a short golf course, spa and cottages — nine holes with sea views over Caldey.
5 miles from Saundersfoot
Trespass
Activities2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Tenby Sailing Club
Marina2.5 miles from Saundersfoot
Beaches near Saundersfoot
Dogs all yearGlen Beach, Saundersfoot
Saundersfoot's quieter southern sands, past the harbour — same bay, fraction of the crowd.
Saundersfoot Beach
Huge, safe, gently-shelving village sand — one of Wales's classic family beaches, with the harbour alongside.
Coppet Hall
Saundersfoot's quieter neighbour through the first tunnel — parking, a serious café, and the same lovely sand.
Dogs all yearMonkstone Beach
A secluded sandy beach under Monkstone Point between Tenby and Saundersfoot — earned by a steep walk down through woods.
Dogs all yearWiseman's Bridge
The quiet middle beach on the Amroth–Saundersfoot tramway walk: pebbles at the top, wide firm sand below, pub on the sea front.
Tenby North Beach
The postcard one: harbour, Goscar Rock and sheltered sand beneath the pastel town.
Compare every beach near Saundersfoot — dogs, lifeguards, parking →
Walks from Saundersfoot
Amroth to Tenby
The first stage of the Coast Path, through old coal country and tunnels cut for a tramway, ending inside Tenby's town walls.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
Carew Castle, the Tidal Mill and the Millpond
A flat, waymarked circuit of the millpond with a castle at one end and the only restored tidal mill in Wales at the other.
3 miles · 1½ hours · Easy
Manorbier to Tenby via Skrinkle and Lydstep
Limestone cliffs, a double cove with a rock arch, two military ranges to check, and an arrival into Tenby along South Beach.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate