7 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Scottish Borders

It depends on the trail and the child more than on the weather. 7stanes Glentress is recorded outdoors and the easier routes stay rideable when it is damp, though everything gets slower and dirtier. Mudguards, gloves and dry kit waiting at the car make the difference. Steep, technical trails in the wet are for children who already ride well, not for a first outing.

Border Ice Rink and Teviotdale Leisure Centre are the two recorded indoors. An ice rink is cold on purpose, so dress accordingly and not as if for a heated building, and a leisure centre gives you swimming as a fallback when nothing else is running. Both fill up on a wet weekend, so aim for the start of the day rather than the middle of it.

Rock UK Whithaugh Park records indoor and outdoor space, which usually means some sessions can be swapped rather than lost. That is worth raising when you book, particularly if the children span several ages. A centre that can shift a climbing session indoors salvages a poor day where one that cannot simply loses it.

Bowhill Stables is recorded outdoors and Nenthorn Equestrian Centre carries both flags, so the pair are not equivalent once winter sets in. Find out which surface the lesson uses and how exposed it is. Then send the child in more layers than seems reasonable, since the cold arrives while they are waiting rather than while they are riding.