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6 Best Adventure Days Out In Shropshire
Six records, of which two are places you turn up to. The Edge Adventure Activities and Hawkstone Park Follies are sites with something on them; Ironbridge Gorge Mystery Treasure Trail, The Shrewsbury Mystery Treasure Trail, Bridgnorth Spy Mission Treasure Trail and The Ludlow Mystery Treasure Trail are printed routes round four separate towns. Four of the six carry no rating at all in our data. Shropshire is a large county with its towns set well apart, so nothing on this list pairs with anything else — whichever you choose, that is the trip.
Top adventure days out in Shropshire
Showing 1–6 of 6
Activity CentresThe Edge Adventure Activities
AdventureHawkstone Park Follies
AdventureIronbridge Gorge Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureThe Ludlow Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureThe Shrewsbury Mystery Treasure Trail
AdventureBridgnorth Spy Mission Treasure Trail
Just one entry in six shows any indoor space, which makes this a category to check the sky for before committing. If the forecast is poor, the honest advice is to look elsewhere, because a puzzle route in the rain pleases nobody. On a decent day the two staffed sites are the ones that will fill it, and the trails are best kept for when you happen to be in the town anyway.
Adventure Days Out in Shropshire: FAQs
What is Hawkstone Park Follies like for children?
A landscape more than an attraction, with paths, towers, steep sections and dark passages built into a hillside. It carries indoor and outdoor flags, and children who like scrambling and torchlight get a great deal out of it. It asks for proper footwear and a reasonable amount of walking, so it suits confident legs more than very small ones. Take a torch even if you assume one will be provided.
What sort of place is The Edge Adventure Activities?
It is the one entry here built around instructed activity, flagged outdoor, and the sort of site where sessions are booked in advance and not dropped into. That normally means age minimums, a kit list and a start time you have to keep. Get in touch before the day instead of turning up, and ask what a session actually includes, since centres of this kind often run several quite different activities from one base.
Four entries have no rating. What should we make of that?
Only that nobody has left one, which is common for products that people buy and take away, not places they visit and review. It is not a signal of quality in either direction. Judge a trail on whether its town appeals and whether your children are old enough to read the clues, and judge the two staffed sites on what their operators tell you, where there is more to go on.
Is there any point trying to do two of these in a day?
Realistically, no. The towns on this list sit well apart from one another, and the two staffed sites are each capable of taking most of a day on their own. A better plan is to pick one and let the rest of the day be lunch, a walk and going home unhurried. This is a county where trying to fit in a second thing usually means enjoying the first one less.