Walks near Penzance.

The three-mile Coast Path south from Penzance to Mousehole follows the Mount's Bay shore past Newlyn's working fish docks and the Penlee Lifeboat Station — commemorated by the 1981 disaster memorials in the town — before climbing to the clifftop above Mousehole harbour. The path is easy and largely level; the views across the bay to St Michael's Mount are consistent throughout. Mousehole village has excellent cafés and the Star Inn. Return by bus (first service departs regularly).

From Mousehole the Coast Path south climbs to Paul and the plateau above, traversing moorland past the Merry Maidens stone circle — nineteen Bronze Age standing stones in a near-perfect ring beside the B3315 — before descending to Lamorna Cove: a sheltered granite inlet with a working quay and a café. The full circular from Penzance via Newlyn, Mousehole, Lamorna, and inland return is eight miles. The stone circle is a fifteen-minute detour from the path.

Nine miles north of Penzance, Cape Cornwall — the only cape in England and Wales — is the most westerly headland on the mainland. The NT headland walk from the car park at St Just loops around the cape, with views north to the Brisons sea stacks and south towards Land's End. Three miles from St Just; bus from Penzance to St Just year-round. The chimney stack of the former Cape Cornwall Mine on the summit makes the headland immediately identifiable from miles of sea and coast path.