Showing 1–7 of 7 outdoor attractions in Northwich
SightseeingAnderton Boat Lift
Activity CentresBlakemere Village
AdventureGo Ape Delamere
Parks and PlaygroundsBlakemere Holiday Park
Zoos and Wildlife ParksCheshire Falconry
SightseeingTotally Awesome
SightseeingHarry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience
Outdoor Family Adventures in Northwich
Northwich is salt country, and the landscape shows it: ground that subsided over old workings has filled with water, so there are meres and flashes where you would otherwise expect fields. The engineering that came with the industry left Anderton Boat Lift, a genuinely odd thing to show a child and much better in the flesh than in a photograph. West of town the ground rises into forest, which is where Go Ape Delamere and Cheshire Falconry sit. Seven listings carry outdoor space.
Water, woodland and heavy industrial engineering is an unusual combination for one small town, and it means an outdoor day here need not be a walk in a park. Three of the seven listings have indoor space if the sky turns against you.
Outdoor activities in Northwich: FAQs
Is the boat lift worth a visit with children?
It is a large piece of working machinery that moves boats between two levels of water, and that is a concept children grasp the instant they see it happening. Anderton Boat Lift has covered space too, so it holds up on a poor day better than most of this page does. Children who like diggers, cranes and locks tend to like this a great deal.
What is there in the forest?
Go Ape Delamere is the high-ropes course and the reason most families with older children head out that way. Cheshire Falconry is the quieter option on the same sort of ground, and birds flying at close quarters hold attention in a way a woodland walk on its own often fails to. Neither has any cover recorded against it, so the forecast counts for a lot.
Anything for a family that wants one site for the afternoon?
Blakemere Village and Blakemere Holiday Park are the two listings that gather several things onto a single site, and both have somewhere under a roof on site. That mixture suits a party spanning several ages, or one where nobody can face driving between two places. It also means a shower does not bring the visit to an end.
How far will we end up walking?
It varies more here than on most pages. Forest ground at Go Ape Delamere means proper walking on uneven surfaces; Anderton Boat Lift concentrates the interest in one spot with much less territory to cover. Decide which of those the group is up for before you choose, because there is no version of a forest visit that involves staying near the car park.