13 Best Adventure Days Out In Hampshire

A route with clues, followed on foot round a town or village, which you work through yourself rather than turning up for. There is no site to arrive at and nobody running it on the day, so it starts when you want and stops when the children have had enough. Hampshire has more of these than of anything else in this category, and they account for most of the count on this page.

The category disappears. Thirteen records out of thirteen carry an outdoor flag and not one carries an indoor flag, so nothing on this page is waiting in reserve for bad weather. A trail is technically doable in drizzle, and a determined family will manage one in waterproofs, but a ropes course in bad weather is neither pleasant nor always running. Have a different category in reserve for the day.

Our data shows Moors Valley Country Park as free to enter. That makes it the sensible base for a family who want a day out without booking anything in advance. That does not tell you about the ropes course inside it, which is a separate activity with its own arrangements, and it does not tell you about parking. For everything else on this list, our records simply do not hold the information.

The trails, comfortably. Clue-following keeps a younger child and an older one busy at once: one reads, one spots, and nobody is ruled out by height or by nerve. High-ropes courses are the opposite: they sort children by size and confidence, and the one who cannot go on ends up watching. We hold no age or height requirements in our data, and the operator's own page will. Read it before promising anybody a turn.