Outdoor Activities in Barnet

Go Ape Cockfosters is the entry designed for older children, and high-ropes operators set firm rules on height, age and adult supervision that differ between sites. Check them before you promise anything, and check whether an adult is required to climb too, since that rearranges the day for whoever was planning to sit with a coffee and a book.

Dinosaur Safari Adventure Golf and London Footgolf Centre both flatten the gap, because an infant and a teenager can be equally hopeless at the same game and nobody minds. Lewis Of London Ice Cream Farm records indoor and outdoor space and is the gentlest option, which makes it the useful one when the older child has already been worn out.

Because ordinary parks and commons very rarely get written up as attractions, and outer London is full of them. What survives into a list like this is the commercial and the organised, which skews a short page towards things you arrange and away from things you simply walk to. Your nearest green space will not be on here and may still be the right answer.

No. It means five entries carry the Barnet name in our records. A family living here draws on neighbouring pages without thinking about it, and the question that matters is not how many entries sit under one heading but how many good options sit within a journey you are prepared to make on a wet Saturday morning.

New Barnet Leisure Centre is the pool entry, recorded with indoor as well as outdoor space. Leisure centres run to timetables built around lessons and clubs, so the water is not always available to a family walking in, and the shallow end may be booked out entirely. Look at the day's timetable before driving over with towels in the boot.