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7 Best Activities In Kendal

7 family-friendly attractions in Kendal, Cumbria

Same Saturday, two entirely different days. In one, cloud sits on the fells and nobody takes a coat off: clay under fingernails at Pandemonium Pots, or a rope and a harness at Lakeland Climbing Centre. In the other, the light holds and the gardens and woodland at Sizergh Castle - National Trust swallow an afternoon whole. Seven family places are on file for the town. Five can be done under cover, four want you outdoors, and the ones counted twice are the ones worth knowing about.

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Kendal's value is in that overlap rather than in the total. Look out of the window first thing, decide then, and ring ahead if the plan depends on a session time rather than an open gate.

Visiting Kendal with kids: FAQs

What is there to do in Kendal with children when the weather turns?

Kendal handles a soaking better than a list of seven has any right to. Lakeland Climbing Centre and KendalWall Indoor Climbing Centre each put children on a wall under supervision, and the two are not the same experience, so one does not cancel out the other. Pandemonium Pots goes the opposite way: sitting down, making something, no running. A morning at one and an afternoon at the other fills the day without anyone repeating themselves.

Is there anything in Kendal for a child who cannot sit still?

Two climbing walls and an outdoor activity operator is a strong showing for a market town. Live For Today Adventures Kendal works in the open air. Lakeland Maze Farm Park has a roofed side and an open one, so a child who runs everywhere still has somewhere to run when it turns. Spend the energy before lunch and the rest of the day gets easier.

Does Kendal work for a mixed-age group?

It does, provided you accept that you are choosing venues rather than finding one that covers everybody at once. Lakeland Maze Farm Park and Sizergh Castle - National Trust span the widest age range, since each is logged as indoor and outdoor and a toddler takes something quite different from the visit than a ten-year-old does. Curious About Kendal is a route around the town on foot, so it needs legs that have stopped complaining.

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