Outdoor Activities in Hexham

Only if the whole day depends on it. Falconry Days and Climb GB are the two entries that give a child something immediate to engage with, and either makes a good anchor. Vindolanda carries an indoor flag as well as an outdoor one on our record, so it can be a shorter, sheltered stop rather than the main event, which suits a reluctant visitor much better.

One is filed under museums and one under sightseeing on our record, which usually means one has a presented collection and the other is the site itself. Vindolanda and Hadrians Wall and Fort are therefore quite different visits, and doing both in a day is a lot of the same subject for a child. Pick one and give it proper attention.

Hexham Treasure Hunt Trail gives structure without an admission point or a start time, so it fills an awkward part of the day neatly. It works best as a way of getting a group around a town they would otherwise trudge through. Some children take to the clue format instantly, others find it slow, and there is no real way to know which yours is until you try.

Cautiously, because four of these five are recorded as outdoor with no indoor element at all. Exposed upland sites are unforgiving in poor weather and the visit gets cut short rather than merely dampened. Check the forecast the evening before, choose on that basis, and hold something in reserve that owes nothing to the sky.