A park and woodland circuit visiting the Mi Amigo memorial at the site of a wartime B-17 crash. On 22 February 1944 the USAAF aircraft Mi Amigo crashed in Endcliffe Park, killing all ten crew members. Sheffield City Council records the event and the memorial, established in 1969. The memorial garden marks the crash site and provides a quiet place to read the names and remember the crew.
Start on the park-side footpath beside Endcliffe Park’s paid car park on Rustlings Road, near Hunter’s Bar. Follow the entrance paths into the park and head northwest along the wooded side of the grounds. Visit the Mi Amigo memorial beside the woodland path, then continue west beside Porter Brook and the ponds. Follow the upper park paths upstream towards the Nether Spurge Wheel area. Use the footbridge at the western turn and return east on the lower riverside paths, crossing the other footbridges shown on the route. Pass the café area and return through the entrance paths to the car park. The small memorial clearing is immediately beside the path; leave flowers and commemorative objects undisturbed.
Allow about 1 hour 15 minutes for the 2.5 km circuit, including time at the memorial. Most of the walk follows gentle park paths, but the wooded memorial approach includes uneven ground, roots and short slopes. Mud and wet leaves can make it slippery. Use the bridges rather than stepping stones, and stay back from the brook and pond edges, especially after heavy rain. Share paths considerately with cyclists, runners and other visitors, and keep dogs under control. The woodland section makes this particular circuit unsuitable for ordinary pushchairs and wheelchairs, even though other park paths are surfaced.
Sheffield City Council lists a charged Endcliffe Park car park; check the current tariff and signs on arrival. Hunter’s Bar has public transport connections. The park has a café, playground and open grass, but café hours vary, so bring water and do not depend on it being open. Avoid adjoining private grounds and residential drives.
History and access: Sheffield City Council, Mi Amigo memorial information (sheffield.gov.uk/news/2023/funds-being-raised-rafa-renovate-endcliffe-park-mi-amigo-memorial); Welcome to Sheffield, Endcliffe Park and Sheffield Round Walk (welcometosheffield.co.uk). Route geometry independently traced from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright).