Activities where you can let your imaginations run wild.
Zebon Copse Play Area has the longest and most involved obstacle course we have seen – ideal for playing the floor is lava! It also has plenty of nature nearby – both the Zebon Copse Nature Reserve and the beautiful Basingstoke Canal are just a short walk away.
Royal Victoria Country Park has a story trail along which you follow Professor Nutrino, a Time Agent, as she battles to fix a tear in time… with a little help from your children.
If, like me, you have ever longed to adventure through 100 Aker Wood with Winnie the Pooh and his friends then there are two places to consider visiting – Aldenham Country Park and Ashdown Forest.
Aldenham CP is home to 100 Aker Wood, including Winnie-the-Pooh’s house,
My children love the idea of the Stone and Iron Ages – flint tools, cave paintings, hill forts, making fire.
Below are some places to imagine your way back in time.
Following a story trail adds a creative twist to a family walk. It’s also a great way to discover a new location. Below are eight story trails compiled by Hampshire CC. These are walks
Whether it’s plundering treasure, skippering ships, climbing the rigging or simply running around shouting, “Aaaaarrrrrr!” in your loudest pirate voice, there is nothing quite like
What would you discover if you “took a stroll through a deep dark wood”? In Alice Holt Forest, it could be almost anything – play trails, cycle tracks, table tennis, adventure play
The Hawley Meadows Story Trail is a series of short stories about wood nymphs, water nymphs and a cheeky boggart. It is called “The Story of the Nymphs and the Boggart“
The Jubilee Play Area is a small play area in Tilford with a zip wire and a tractor! The play equipment includes a tractor to play on
a wooden house with a slide,
A Stone Age quarry hides in the deepest parts of Shere Woodlands. Tracking it down was one of those wild occasions where I began to feel like an explorer…
Your mission at Little Beaulieu is to sneak past the painting with the moving eyes and slip into the secret passage behind the bookcase. But you’ll have to find
Are you brave enough to step back in time to 1832 and help a salt farmer trap a sea monster? If so, The Story of Salterns, Sea Monsters and Saving the Day
Norden Station doesn’t have a waiting room, it has a train-themed play area called The Sidings! All aboard… The play equipment is based on Swanage Railway
Longleat’s magical Festival of Light uses huge lanterns to create worlds from children’s stories. We have walked through the wardrobe into Narnia, explored the wonderful worlds
A must-see part of Longleat is Adventure Castle. This amazing adventure play area centres around an enormous wooden castle complete with tube
Ahoy, me hearties! A pirate ship lurks offshore in the play area at Moor Road Recreation Ground. Can you scale the rigging, board the ship and save the day? The pirate and
Walking through the forest at Rushmere Country Park is like strolling through a fairy tale. It feels every bit the enchanted forest with fairy doors, giants’ chairs
Something magical has happened in Leighton-Linslade. Storybook characters, and their belongings, have escaped from their books and hidden themselves
Municipal Gardens Play Area is a place to let your imaginations run free. Can you sail your pirate ship past seals, sharks and an octopus to a kingdom with a village
Ashdown Forest is a place to make your own magical memories, inspire your children to run wild, and fall in love with Pooh Bear again. With preparation, you will explore
A smiling dragon watches over Broomhall Recreation Ground, a traditional-style play area with a range of play and sports equipment. The play equipment is
Lepe Country Park is one of those rare places where you can fill an entire day with everything or nothing! If you need an energy busting day then plan on paddling,
If, like me, you have ever longed to adventure through 100 Aker Wood with Winnie the Pooh and his friends then consider visiting Aldenham Country Park.
A pirate ship has run aground at California Country Park! Its crew – a parrot, an owl and an octopus wearing a Jolly Roger eyepatch – man the decks but don’t seem to have
A visit to Farnham Park’s Adventure Play Area can be like questing your way through a fairy tale. Can you creep through the tunnel without waking the fox and badger,
Moors Valley Country Park is outstanding, a special combination of fun, magic and nature. We were blown away by the marvellous play areas, enchanting play trail
Welcome to the Jungle! Woking Park and Play Area must be one of the best places to bring children in our area and it’s completely free. The playground takes you on
Next to Mudeford Quay there is a gorgeous adventure play area with a shipwreck, sea views, two beaches and even crabbing. The play equipment includes
Tucked away behind a row of houses in Ascot is the colourful Cheapside Recreation Ground Play Area. This playground is said to be suitable for children to
Hidden within a large housing development is Langdale Drive and a charming, woodland play area where you can get a feel for what riding a snail might be like!
Inside the enclosed junior area are: toddler swings a see saw
Visiting the excellent Holloway Hill Recreation Ground and Play Area is like walking into a fairy tale village with bridges, a tower or lighthouse and a cottage.
Pirate hats at the ready for a visit to Aarons Hill Play Area – there are not one but two ships to sail over sandy seas! One ship is a multiplay with sides to climb up,
One of the things I find fascinating about Watership Down is that Richard Adams based the rabbits’ journey on actual places that can still be visited today. Breathtaking
“Wagons roll!” at Post Haste Play Area, which has a multiplay stagecoach being led by an elephant springer. The play equipment includes a multiplay
Calling all budding astronauts… prepare to fly rocket springers, mix and match planets or captain a spaceship (also known as a multi-play unit – some
“All aboard!” the multiplay train, complete with steering wheels, railway tracks and tunnels. It’s even located near to a railway line so you can hear real trains whizz past.
Have you ever wished you could step inside a storybook world and explore? At Discover Children’s Story Centre you can! The centre’s Story Worlds and Garden are
As well as the Story Worlds inside, the Discover Children’s Story Centre has a Story Garden, which is a creative space full of story themed play equipment that fires
Legend has it that the heart of Tumblestone Hollow is an old maple tree surrounded by magical stones. The protectors of these stones live in an enchanting
Lily Hill Park’s picnic credentials are impeccable – it’s been voted the UK’s second most beautiful picnic spot and is also the proud owner of the UK’s longest picnic
Furzey Gardens hides an enchanted fairy kingdom, complete with a castle, a ferry company, wooden hideouts and about 40 fairy doors scattered throughout the
Furzey Gardens is a beautiful place to let your imaginations run free and the creative play area is no exception. The play equipment includes, a bamboozalom maze
On the rolling savannas of Aldershot, tigers roam freely, crocodiles patrol and elephants offer rides. To see these wonderful beasts from the comfort
With ships to skipper, a fort to storm and a train to drive, the adventure play area at The Look Out Discovery Centre is exceptional. Children can play
Hever Castle has a fabulous adventure play area centred around a huge wooden castle – can you find the secret passage into the castle, dodge the knights,
Oh no! King Fisher has been captured by the toad army. Can you help the animals of Winnall Moors Nature Reserve to free him? “The Adventure of Winnall Moors” leads
“The Mystical Tale of Nevi-Wesh” leads you along a story trail through a small area of the New Forest, following in the footsteps of two children as they meet magical
Like a scene from Peter Pan, Byfleet Recreation Ground and Play Area has a pirate shipwreck with a grinning crocodile lurking nearby. You can almost hear the tick-tock…
Your quest at Frimley Lodge Park is to capture the castles and secure two treasure chests. But be warned, these are protected by a sandy moat patrolled by a crocodile
Itchen Valley Country Park bursts with places to play and trails to try, including an adventure play trail through the woods, two play areas, and a brass rubbing nature trail.