8 Best Family Things to Do in Harrogate
Fun Places in Harrogate to Take Your Kids
Harrogate offers families plenty of activities that will keep children of all ages happy. For younger kids, there are play areas in city parks and gardens with slides, swings, and climbing frames. Active older children will enjoy outdoor activities like cycling and zip lines. Indoor attractions include museums such as the Royal Pump Room Museum. Historic buildings like Ripley Castle offer guided tours tailormade for younger visitors.
Families with children will find lots to see and do in central Harrogate. The Royal Pump Room Museum, with its displays of old-fashioned shop interiors, toys, and dolls will intrigue children who are most used to 21st-century shopping. Valley Gardens, the city centre’s largest park, offers a variety of activities for kids.
1. Valley Gardens Play Area
A spot for fun among beautiful gardens
Categoría: Familias, Económico
Children can clamber over climbing frames and enjoy swings and slides at the Valley Gardens Play Area. There’s a paddling pool for toddlers, while older kids and teens can play tennis and pitch and putt. A pavilion sells refreshments. The play area and the gardens are particularly popular for cooling down in the summer.
Ubicación: Valley Drive, Harrogate HG1 2SZ, UK
Teléfono: +44 (0)1423 500600
Valley Gardens Play Area
2. Royal Pump Room Museum
Learn about Harrogate’s spa history
Categoría: Familias, Historia
This Victorian building in Harrogate used to pump the town’s spa water from a natural spring. It now contains an eclectic collection of strange 19th-century therapeutic equipment, together with an interesting collection of toys, playthings, and treasures from ancient Egyptian tombs.
Ubicación: Crown Place, Harrogate HG1 2RY, UK
Horarios: Monday–Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm, Sunday from midday to 4 pm
Teléfono: +44 (0)1423 556188
Royal Pump Room Museum
3. Newby Hall Adventure Gardens
Lush gardens of an 18th-century country house
Categoría: Parejas, Familias, Historia, Foto, De aventura
Newby Hall is a grand 18th-century manor with activities and exhibits designed to please young visitors. There are 15 types of gardens to explore, including the Autumn Garden, the National Collection of Cornus (which has over 100 specimens of 30 species), and a flower-filled pergola that leads to the Rock Garden.
In the grounds of Newby Hall, you’ll find swings, a zip line, and climbing frames. The whole family can hop aboard the miniature train and take a paddleboat on the pond. A collection of dollhouses will delight all.
Ubicación: Newby Hall, Skelton-on-Ure, Ripon HG4 5AE, UK
Horarios: April–June and September: Tuesday–Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm (closed on Mondays). July–August: daily from 11 am to 5 pm
Teléfono: +44 (0)1423 322583
Newby Hall Adventure Gardens
4. Lightwater Valley Theme Park
A fun-filled day out for thrill-seekers
Categoría: Familias
Lightwater Valley offers multiple thrills and spills to occupy the family all day. The park boasts one of Europe’s longest roller coasters, as well as water rides such as Wild Water Rapids and Falls of Terror. Younger kids can enjoy milder attractions such as an indoor soft play area. Tribute acts and shows are also scheduled regularly for added family entertainment.
Ubicación: Water Lane, North Stainley, Ripon HG4 3HT, UK
Horarios: Hours vary by season
Teléfono: +44 (0)1765 635321
Lightwater Valley Theme Park
5. The Petrifying Well at Mother Shipton’s Cave
An eerie but intriguing spot
Categoría: Familias, Exótico
One of the more outlandish family attractions in the Harrogate region is just outside Knaresborough, 4 miles east of Harrogate. The Petrifying Well, with its seemingly magical power to turn toys and other objects to stone, has to be seen to be believed.
Children will be amazed to discover that anything immersed in the mineral-rich waters of the Petrifying Well at Mother Shipton’s Cave acquires a rocky coating. That includes teddy bears, and you can buy petrified teddies in the gift shop.
Ubicación: Mother Shipton’s Cave, Prophecy Lodge, High Bridge, Knaresborough, Harrogate HG5 8DD, UK
Horarios: March: Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 5.30 pm. April–June and September–October: Monday-Friday from 10 am to 4.30 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 5.30 pm. July–August: daily from10 am to 5.30 pm
Teléfono: +44 (0)1423 864600
The Petrifying Well at Mother Shipton's Cave
6. Big Sheep & Little Cow Farm
Pet and play with fluffy lambs
Categoría: Familias
To get a taste of rural life near Harrogate, take the family to Big Sheep & Little Cow in Bedale. This sweep of farmland and valley is just 30 minutes from the city centre, but it’s a different world, where cattle graze and lambs leap.
You can bottle-feed new-born lambs, calves, and piglets (and meet their owners) at places like Big Sheep & Little Cow. City kids will love meeting baby animals at this farm, which also has an indoor adventure play area.
Ubicación: Aiskew Watermill, Bedale DL8 1AW, UK
Horarios: Daily from 10 am to 5 pm
Teléfono: +44 (0)1677 422125
Big Sheep & Little Cow Farm
7. Camp Hill Estate
Enjoy fun outdoor activities in a lush countryside
Categoría: Familias, De aventura
Located around 20 miles north of Harrogate, Camp Hill Estate offers families thrilling activities such as zip wires, a rope obstacle course in the treetops, and quad bike rides.
Most of the outdoor activities at Camp Hill usually close in the winter, but some adventures such as Segway tours and quad bikes remain available for exploring the beautiful estate grounds.
Ubicación: Camp Hill, Kirklington, Bedale DL8 2LS, UK
Horarios: April–November: weekends from 10 am to 6 pm. August: Monday–Friday from 9 am to 5 pm, Saturday–Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm
Teléfono: +44 (0)1845 567788
Camp Hill Estate
8. Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
For the love of locomotives
Categoría: Familias, Historia
There’s no better way for the family to see the picturesque scenery of the Dales than from a historic steam train. Take a ride from Bolton Abbey – a 30-minute drive from Harrogate – to catch a train drawn by one of the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway’s vintage locomotives.
From the 19th-century station at Bolton Abbey, steam trains take just 15 minutes to choo-choo to Embsay – not an epic journey, but a fun one. At Bolton Abbey, children can also ride the Hambleton Valley Miniature Railway.
Ubicación: Skipton Road, Embsay, Skipton BD23 6PH, UK
Horarios: Hours vary by season
Teléfono: +44 (0)1756 710614
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
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