Nature Routes, Audio Trail and e-learning course

Enjoy nature in your life today!

Discover our Nature Routes and enjoy a Walk, Wheel or Ride on one of 6 nature-rich routes from the Millennium Bridge. Experience a guided Avenue and Park Nature Audio Trail along a delightful Terry Avenue and Rowntree Park route. Or take a short Open University e-learning course and learn how to identify, get to know and care for nature as part of your life.

Map showing nature routes to Rowntree Park and New Walk

Discover nature-rich routes from the Millennium Bridge!

Enjoy a Walk, Wheel or Cycle along one of 6 nature-rich routes from the Millennium Bridge. All routes have a hard-surfaced option for those who use wheels to get around.

Simply download one of our mobile-friendly maps below:

Walk or Wheel around Rowntree Park and along New Walk

Walk or Wheel to Nun Ings and Danesmead Wood

Cycle to Knavesmire Wood

Cycle to Little Hob Moor and Railway Pond

Group of people look up in a wood, and listen.

Experience our Avenue and Park Audio Trail!

Enjoy a guided Audio Trail experience along a delightful green route in York, along Terry Avenue and around Rowntree Park.

Simply download the Trails and Places app to your phone, search for York and click on York: Avenue and Park Nature Audio Trail. At the start on the Millennium Bridge, open the Trail on your phone, and it will automatically play as you go around the route.

If you can’t get out at the moment, why not play the Audio Trail at home? You’ll enjoy beautiful images, descriptive narration, and a recording of a live York Bike Belles nature walk on the route. It’ll bring the route to life! If you have no mobile, just follow the Terry Avenue and Rowntree Park Route on the maps above instead.

Experience our Avenue and Park Audio Trail

man holds a notebook containing a leaf

Take the Green Route e-learning course!

Enjoy a short Open University OpenLearn Create course, and learn how to identify, get to know and care for nature and adopt a nature-friendly lifestyle. You’ll be able to reinforce your learning with practical activities and fun quizzes.

By the end of the course, you’ll be enjoying nature in your life everyday at home, or as you walk or wheel or ride on Green Routes around our beautiful city.

Take the Green Route e-learning course