35 Best Sports & Activity Venues In Somerset and Bristol

Wind and electrical storms are the usual reasons, not ordinary rain, though every operator sets its own line. Adventure Bristol Tree Tops High Ropes works up in the canopy where gusts are stronger than they feel at ground level. Ask at the point of booking what their cut-off is and what happens if they call it off, so the answer is not a surprise on the day.

Pevlings Farm Riding and Livery Stables is recorded outdoors, so a winter lesson means cold hands and a wet school. Plenty of children love it anyway and come back muddy and pleased. The ones who struggle tend to be the ones nobody warned. Gloves, waterproof trousers and dry clothes waiting in the car are the difference between a good memory and a miserable one.

Treetop Golf Bristol carries an indoor flag, and adventure golf under a roof is the same game whatever the sky is doing. Bristol Activity Centre records indoor and outdoor space, which gives an instructor room to move a session under cover. Neither is as memorable as a day in the trees, but both survive a forecast that has already ruined the alternative.

Partly. Great Wood is filed under national parks and recorded outdoors, and tree cover takes the edge off a shower without keeping anyone dry through a downpour. It is a good choice for a grey, still day and a poor one for a wet, windy afternoon. The ground is the other consideration, since woodland paths hold water long after the rain stops.