10 Best Activities In Rochdale

Two separate listings cover it. Hollingworth Lake Country Park and Visitor Centre is the walking-and-looking half, and Hollingworth Lake Activity Centre is the getting-on-the-water half. Both are outdoors. With younger children the country park alone is usually enough for a morning, while older ones will want the activity centre, which is the sort of thing worth booking rather than turning up for and hoping.

The Rochdale list leans towards older children, so a toddler day takes a little more thought here than elsewhere. Touchstones Museum and Gallery is indoors and unstructured enough to work at toddler pace, which is really all you need on a wet Sunday. Tenpin Rochdale will take small children with the barriers up, and Putt & Play Rochdale is indoor crazy golf, which forgives a child who wanders off halfway through a hole.

Karting and skating both scale to a group better than almost anything else. Team Karting Indoor Entertainment Centre gives you a timed session and a leaderboard, which does the organising for you. Roller City Rochdale absorbs a crowd of mixed abilities without anyone standing about. Tenpin Rochdale is the reliable fallback when the group spans a wide age range. Ring ahead, since group sessions are usually booked rather than walk-in.