Widemouth Bay is very convenient for those wishing to visit other places of interest and being close to the Cornwall / Devon border enables visitors to see Clovelly, Westward Ho!, Hartland, Ilfracombe, Exmoor and Dartmoor, as well as the best of Cornwall. Bodmin Moor, Crowdy Reservoir and Davidstow Moor are within a short distance - the latter having a microlite flying school, grazing sheep and wild ponies. The expanse of beaches, headlands of outstanding beauty, wooded land-ward valleys and quaint coves are all evident in this locality.

Both Widemouth Bay & Bude, (where surfing in the U.K. is believed to have begun,) has a wide expanse of sandy beach and is a surfer's paradise due to the high rolling waves of the Atlantic. Children and family groups are well catered for with plenty of room for beach games, and innumerable rock pools to explore. This part of Cornwall has the highest tides of the Peninsula and allegedly has one of the lowest rainfalls in the country. The coastal road is one of the most scenic in the British Isles and the short trip to Crackington Haven is quite dramatic. The road takes you down to Millook Haven, notable for its unusual rock strata, and studied by geologists the world over. Its 1:4 gradients and hairpin bends lead to some of the highest cliffs on the North Coast