Car park Waskerley Reservoir Consett County Durham DH8 9DY

Parking is available at the starting point. 

[1] With the reservoir in front of you, turn right and walk past the houses. When the road goes around to the left, follow it until you reach the tarmac road leading up to the main road.

[2] Don't follow the tarmac road uphill but keep on walking along the reservoir and towards a picnic site. This path leads you uphill towards a house.

[3] You will reach a path junction, turn right here and follow this path for a distance. You will have beautiful views over the reservoir on your right. After a while, you will reach a gate. Go through it and continue on the wide path.

You will come across red grouse, a bird living in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. The call of this bird sounds almost like 'Go back, go back'.

[4] You will reach the tarmac road close to the main road. Turn right on the tarmac and walk downhill for a distance towards the reservoir.

[5] At the end of the road, turn left to retrace your steps to the starting point.

Waskerley Reservoir belongs to a group of three reservoirs, the others being Smiddy Shaw and Hideshope Reservoir. A popular outdoor activity is fly fishing – you can buy up to five day tickets. Besides fishing, walking and cycling are favourite activities due to the beautiful scenery. The C2C cycle route passes close by the reservoirs. The area belongs to the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and offers therefore a wide variety of walking and cycling routes through the countryside with magnificent views over the reservoirs and  stretches full of blooming heather (in August until September).