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6 Best Adventure Days Out In Cambridgeshire
Be warned that this category is thinner than the count suggests. All six records are essentially self-guided walking routes, not places with staff and equipment: The Cambridge Treasure Hunt Trail, Peterborough Mystery Treasure Trail, The St Ives Mystery Treasure Trail, Grantchester Spy Mission Treasure Trail, Curious About Ely and Family Friendly Murder Mystery. There is no ropes course here, no climbing centre, nothing with a harness. All six show outdoor space and not one shows any indoor space, which follows from what they are.
Top adventure days out in Cambridgeshire
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AdventureThe Cambridge Treasure Hunt Trail
AdventurePeterborough Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureThe St Ives Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureGrantchester Spy Mission Treasure Trail
SightseeingCurious About Ely
AdventureFamily Friendly Murder Mystery
Each route belongs to one town, so the geography chooses for you: do the one where you already are. That is the upside of a category made of trails — no booking, no travelling to a specific site, and you can start when you like. The downside is that a family wanting the harnessed, climbing sort of adventure will need to look at a different category or over the county boundary.
Adventure Days Out in Cambridgeshire: FAQs
What is one of these trails, exactly?
You buy a booklet or a download, follow a marked route round a town, and answer questions using things you can see along the way — a date on a plaque, a name over a door, a carving on a wall. Nobody meets you, nothing is booked and there is no site to arrive at. The route is the attraction. That makes it flexible in a way a timed session is not, and wholly exposed to the weather in a way a building is not.
Will a trail fill a whole outing?
It fills the middle of one and not the whole thing. A town route occupies a decent stretch of walking with stops, which for most families is enough on its own, but it works far better with something either side — somewhere to eat, a park, a museum for afterwards. Treat the trail as the spine of the day and hang the rest off it, and take a pen and something firm to lean on.
We want climbing, ropes or zip lines. Where does that leave us?
Not on this page, and dressing it up would not help. This county's adventure listings are trails and puzzle routes, so a child set on height and harnesses needs either a different category — activity centres are the usual place to look — or a trip over the boundary into the next county. Settle that at home before anyone builds up expectations, because a treasure trail sold as a zip wire will not land well.
What age do these routes suit?
Broadly, a confident reader upwards. The questions depend on spotting and reading things on buildings, which a six-year-old can do with help and an eight-year-old can often lead. Younger siblings can come along happily enough as long as somebody accepts they will be pushed round in a buggy and solving nothing. Teenagers do better with the puzzle-heavy versions than with the gentler town walks.