8 Best Adventure Days Out In Norfolk

Hilltop Outdoor Centre is the one built for organised activity and leads the eight on rating, so it suits a family who wants the day arranged for them. High Lodge Thetford Forest Centre is the opposite: woodland with things in it, where you set your own pace and can leave when you like. Grimes Graves is the strange one, an ancient working site rather than a modern attraction, and it lands well with children who like the idea of something very old being under their feet.

With a five to ten-year-old, very much so, because it converts a walk they would resist into a task they want to finish. Below five, the clue-hunting goes over their heads and you are simply walking round a town with a piece of paper. Above about eleven, it depends entirely on the child. The real strength is that the town itself is a decent day out regardless, so nothing is wasted if the clue-hunting falls flat halfway round.

It removes most of it. Only one of the eight records indoor space, and the five trails and the forest site all need a dry morning to be worth anything. Norfolk is a county with a strong indoor offering in other categories, so the sensible move on a wet morning is to abandon this heading rather than to try and rescue something from it. Keep the trails back until the weather is settled, when they are among the better things a family can do here.

Not really, and it is better to be straight about it. Five of the eight come from a single family of self-guided walking products, so the county holds three adventure sites and one publisher's worth of trails. For a county this size that is not much. If your children want ropes, heights or speed, this is not the heading that will supply it here, and looking at the activity centres category will serve you better.