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5 Best Adventure Days Out In Cheshire
Five entries, and no two of them are the same kind of thing, which makes this the rare listing where nobody has to compare anything. Go Ape Delamere is a booked course in the trees. Delamere Forest is the woodland itself, filed under parks and playgrounds. Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a building with a serious subject. The Chester Treasure Trail is a self-guided walk round a city, and it scores better than anything else on this short list. Giggles Play Mill is indoor play. Age and weather will make this decision for you long before preference gets a look in.
Top adventure days out in Cheshire
Showing 1–5 of 5
AdventureThe Chester Treasure Trail
AdventureGo Ape Delamere
AdventureHack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Parks and PlaygroundsDelamere Forest
Indoor PlayGiggles Play Mill
Five is thin for a county of this size, and there is no point dressing it up. What Cheshire has instead is one strong entry in each of several different moods, so a family working through the list over a year will never repeat themselves. Two of the five record indoor space, which is the number that matters most when you are looking out of the window on a Saturday morning and deciding what is still possible.
Adventure Days Out in Cheshire: FAQs
Are Go Ape Delamere and Delamere Forest the same day out?
They share their surroundings and nothing else. Our records hold them as separate entries and they should be treated separately: one is woodland you walk in at your own pace, the other is a course you arrange in advance and work through under supervision. A family can reasonably do both, but plan them as two things rather than assuming that turning up at the forest gets you the course. The forest also works with any age; the course does not.
Is Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker suitable for children?
It depends more on temperament than age. Expect an enclosed building with a heavy subject, which is fascinating to a child who likes the idea of a secret place and unsettling to one who does not enjoy being underground or in the dark. Around nine or ten is when the history behind it starts to mean something rather than just being atmosphere. It is also the entry on this list least affected by rain, which is worth remembering in autumn.
Anything here for a child under five?
Giggles Play Mill, and realistically that is it. Indoor play is the only entry of the five with no height requirement, no walking distance to negotiate and no subject matter to understand. Delamere Forest works too if you are happy with a pushchair-friendly wander rather than an adventure. The rest of this heading assumes a child who can walk a fair way, follow instructions or read, and ignoring that produces a wasted morning.
Which one holds up on a wet day?
Two of the five carry indoor flags, and they are the bunker and the indoor play centre, which between them cover the older and younger ends of a family neatly enough. The trail becomes a soaking, the forest becomes a muddy trudge and the ropes course may not run at all. On this list, bad weather does not reduce your options gradually. It cuts them straight down to two.