Accessible Attractions in York

The self-guided ones. A walk or a cycle route belongs to you, and finishing early means nothing worse than turning for home. Sessions with a set structure are harder to abandon halfway, and children often mind leaving more than parents expect. If an early exit is a realistic possibility, favour the options where it is invisible to everyone else.

Not automatically. Big sites like National Railway Museum usually publish more access information than small ones, which helps you plan. But a big site is also a lot of building to cross, and published information can be older than the arrangements it describes. Use it to shape your questions, then verify the handful of things your day rests on.

Nothing at all. Surfaces, gradients, steps, gates and how far the interesting part sits from where you stopped are none of them in a facility flag. On outdoor listings that is the bulk of what decides a day, so ask the venue to describe the route in plain words before you commit to travelling.

Start with something you can treat as optional. A short stretch of a self-guided route counts as a day out even if you only do part of it, and Make 'N' Take Ceramics is the sort of sit-down activity that can end whenever a child has had enough. Then ask the venue about leaving and returning part-way through, which is the detail that settles most short visits.