13 Best Activities In Gateshead

Anchor it on Saltwell Park: playground, space to run, and room for a picnic if the weather cooperates. When legs tire, switch to an indoor second half — BattleKart Gateshead for competitive older kids, or a film at the ODEON Metrocentre for a quieter finish. Families with younger children can swap the karting for Bill Quay Community Farm, which keeps the animal visit short and manageable for small attention spans.

Plenty — ten of the thirteen listings have indoor space. Battlezone Laser Gateshead and BattleKart Gateshead cover the active end for older children, and there are two cinemas on the list for the sit-down end. Bowes Railway is the interesting middle option: it has covered areas as well as outdoor ones, so a showery day does not have to write it off entirely.

Bill Quay Community Farm is the dedicated stop — a community farm that suits shorter visits with toddlers and preschoolers. Beyond that, the outdoor listings do the quieter work: Gibside and Saltwell Park both offer the kind of parkland where spotting birds and squirrels becomes the activity itself. Neither replaces a zoo, but for most young children a morning of farm animals followed by a park run is a full day.