13 Best Activity Centres In Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire inverts the usual shape of this category: eight of its thirteen activity centres are outdoor venues, where most counties run two-thirds indoor. The Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley do the explaining. Go Ape Forest of Dean puts tree-top courses over the forest floor with adult entry listed at £21, 270 Climbing Park runs outdoor climbing at 4.9, and SUP Gloucester takes paddleboarders out at a straight 5 rating. Even the county's circus school — All Bars Flying Trapeze Club, also rated 5, with sessions listed at £35 — rigs its trapeze outdoors. The indoor minority is almost entirely ceramic: Hot Pot Pottery, The Paint it Yourself Pottery Co. and Pick a Pot and Paint in the Cotswolds cover the paint-your-own trade across the county, with Taurus Crafts at Lydney folding a craft centre into a broader family site. That makes Gloucestershire unusually forecast-dependent for this category — the memorable entries all happen under open sky, and the fallback list is short. Plan the adventurous option first and hold a pottery session in reserve, rather than the other way round.