derbyshire is a great place to have a day out with the kids. Below we've tried to list as many attractions as we can to make it easy for you to find fun places to visit - we hope you find our website useful - and easy to use. Do you know of any other great
places to go that we may have missed? If so, it would be really nice if you could you get in touch, so that other kids can enjoy the day out as well - thanks a lot - have fun!
Family Days Out in derbyshire
Gullivers Kingdom
Matlock Bath
Gullivers Kingdom A family theme park designed to cater for families with children between the age of two and thirteen. All its rides and attractions are designed to offer the whole family a full day out of fun and excitement.
Chatsworth Farmyard & Adventure Playgnd
Bakewell
Chatsworth Farmyard & Adventure Playgnd The famous garden contains spectacular waterworks and you are welcome to walk, picnic and play here and in the surrounding park. The farmyard and adventure playground welcomes young visitors and families and has special activities throughout the season.
Matlock Farm Park
Matlock
Matlock Farm Park is set in part of a 600 acre working farm, providing a great day out with varied activities for all the family. the park has a varied selection of animals to see including llamas, goats, peacocks and red deer to name a few.
Conkers
Moira
Conkers the award winning attraction at The Heart of the National Forest, a unique mix of indoor and outdoor experiences to keep you and your family engaged for hours.
Matlock Bath Aquarium
Matlock Bath
Matlock Bath Aquarium From Piranahs to Terrapins. There is a large open pool which is fed by a thermal spring and illuminated at night containing common carp, mirror carp and koi carp. The fish may be fed by visitors with fish food obtained on the premises.
Highfields Happy Hens
Etwall
Highfields Happy Hens Highfileds Happy Hens is an Open Working Farm where families are able to walk around the farm at their leisure and enjoy the country atmosphere.
Chestnut Conservation and Wildlife Park
High Peak
Chestnut Conservation and Wildlife Park Chestnut Conservation and Wildlife Park boasts otters, 16 species of owls and other indigenous wildlife all in their natural surroundings including, buzzards, pine martens, polecats, foxes, Scottish wildcats and deer.
Bluebell Dairy
Derby
Bluebell Dairy Round up the clowns in the Maize Maze, visit and feed the little friendlies in the Animal Patch, enjoy the blue coffee and shop for outdoor toys in the kiddies' barn.
Oak Lodge Farm
Foston
Oak Lodge Farm Take time to soak up the scenery, experience the smells of the farm yard and really get in touch with the land that feeds us. Discover first hand what it means to be a farmer.
Queens Park Sports Centre
Chesterfield
Queens Park Sports Centre Ride the hipper dipper waterslide 185ft long (bigger than your average flume). Plus 33m pool with diving area for 1, 3 and 5m boards.
Hathersage Open Air Heated Pool
Hope Valley
Hathersage Open Air Heated Pool Uniquely warm water and swim throughout the season from March to September.
Castle Donington College Pool
Donington
Castle Donington College Pool Looking for something to do during the Summer? If so, why not come along to Castle Donington Community College and have a swim in their heated Outdoor Swimming Pool?
Busy Bees Indoor Play Area
Buxton
Busy Bees Indoor Play Area Children's indoor play area - ball pools, slides and bouncy castles.
Chucklebutties
Belper
Chucklebutties With the exciting playframe, separate baby area and activity sessions every weekday at 11am and 2pm, there's always plenty to keep babies to 10 year olds entertained!
Bumpi's Big Adventure
Derby
Bumpi's Big Adventure - Children's indoor soft play area with the blue cloud café serving fantastic real coffee and hot and cold dishes. Great kids party venue and also suitable for group bookings for nurseries, schools, guides, brownies, rainbows etc.
Crazy Crocodiles Indoor Play Centre
Ilkeston
Crazy Crocodiles Indoor Play Centre is a family friendly indoor play & party centre which serves great coffee and fab food at affordable prices. Children can run off excess energy on our two teir play frame under your watchful eye. We also have a soft baby area and toddler play area for the younger ones.
The Play Mill
Bonsall
The Play Mill The Play Mill is an indoor play centre for children under 9yrs or 4'8" tall. We have a climbing frame with a twin lane bumpy slide, a huge sandpit with sit on diggers and sand toys, an enclosed padded area for the under 3's and various sized sit and ride toys.
Hudys Play Barn
Swadlincote
Hudys Play Barn Hudys Play Barn - 180° Curly Slide - Double Lane Wavy Slide - Rope Bridge - Wave Deck - Scramble Net - Ladybird's Lair & much much more!
Wacky Warehouse - Plank & Leggit
Sawley
Wacky Warehouse - Plank & Leggit Wacky Warehouse - Plank & Leggit. Children up to 4ft 9ins tall are welcome to try out the Wacky Indoor Playcentre with its safe modern games and equipmen, perfect for the ankle biters to let of steam of an afternoon.
Hickory Dickory's Playhouse
Derby
Hickory Dickory's Playhouse The provision of unparalleled indoor children's adventure play and party centres that are spacious, high quality, stylish and as attractive to adults as they are exciting and fun to children.
Noah and Nellies Family Fun Centre
Derby
Noah and Nellies Family Fun Centre Watch your child roar like a lion as they slide down our super fast slide or get dizzy on the spiral slide, climb up our cargo nets and tumble towers, crawl through tunnels and have fun with their friends in the ball pool! There is a separate area for the little toddlers to play safely.
Planet Happy
Ripley
Planet Happy They pride themselves on being the best place to play! They boast an excellent reputation for friendly staff, good food and clean bright play facilities.
Children smile, parents relax, and everyone has a good time at Planet Happy!
Jangala
Derby
Jangala Super indoor play area with dedicated toddler section, football pitch, Wii room, free WiFi and large cafe with big sofas!
Temple Mine
Matlock Bath
Temple Mine Discover for yourself the network of tunnels that exist under your feet and wonder at the crystals glistening in the walls.
Poole's Cavern
Buxton
Poole's Cavern - found deep beneath the limestone hills on the edge of the historic Derbyshire spa town of Buxton. This secret underground world once echoed to the sound of a glacial river that scoured the rock for millions of years.
Peak Cavern
Castleton
Peak Cavern Peak Cavern's spectacular entrance is the largest to any cave in Britain. See rope making, the remains of an underground village and find out why it is called "The Devil's Arse"! Guided tours suitable for all ages.
Speedwell Cavern
Castleton
Speedwell Cavern Speedwell Cavern an incredible underground journey by boat! Descend 105 steps to an underground canal. Take a boat trip to visit the cathedral like cavern and see the "Bottomless Pit" a huge subterranean lake. Great idea if you're looking for family days out in Derbyshire.
Treak Cliff Cavern
Hope Valley
Treak Cliff Cavern Treak Cliff cavern in an underground wonderland of stalactites, stalagmites, rocks, minerals and fossils. Home to Blue John Stone. The tour takes you to see Aladdin's Cave, Fairyland and the Dream Cave. The most famous formation is "The Stork". Events include an Easter Egg Hunt and at Christmas "Carols by Candlelight"
The World Famous Blue John Cavern
Hope Valley
The World Famous Blue John Cavern The Cavern Tours are of immense educational interest showing clearly how the caverns are formed in limestone strata and how the limestone itself had much earlier been formed by the deposits on the floors of great oceans which have long since receded, as the fossilised remains of marine animals now show.
Chesterfield Bowl
Chesterfield
Chesterfield Bowl 16 lane bowling centre - including glow in the dark bowling at selected times at weekends. Kids love bowling, well worth a go if you haven't tried it.
Swadlincote Ski & Snowboard Centre
Swadlincote
Swadlincote Ski & Snowboard Centre Book a lesson or even just a slot for open practice to make sure you are reayd when you hit the slopes - also JUST FOR KIDS special activity days available.
Go Ape!
Buxton
Go Ape! Think you, your friends and family can handle 3 hours of tree top adventure? Are you wild enough to climb 30ft up a rope ladder, Tarzan swing into a giant rope net then zip wire through trees, crawl through tunnels and tackle high wire rope bridges?
Spheremania
Ashbourne
Spheremania Being strapped safely into an enormous bouncy ball and pushed down a hill might not be your idea of fun, but they are going to go crazy for it!
Carsington Water
Wirksworth
Carsington Water Offering a wealth of outdoor activities,
restaurant facilities and leisure opportunities,
Carsington Water in Derbyshire is the ideal
destination for you and your family.
Wild Park Brailsford
Derby
Wild Park Brailsford Strictly for the over 10s (the older they are the more they can do, here) this offers off road quad biking and well protected paint-balling.
The Heights of Abraham
Matlock Bath
The Heights of Abraham Journey in a state of the art cable car - Follow a guide underground to our spectacular showcaves - Explore over 60 acres of Wooded hillside - Take in the stunning Peak District Views - Experience the life of a lead miner. Great idea if you are looking for family days out in Derbyshire.
Crich Tramway Village
Crich
Crich Tramway Village Take a tram ride through time. Step aboard a vintage tram and travel back in time along a recreated village street complete with working pub. Explore fascinating exhibitions and watch trams being restored from the Workshop Viewing Gallery. Children's playground, tea-rooms, shops, and Woodland Walk & Sculpture Trail.
Midland Railway Centre
Ripley
Midland Railway Centre There is a standard Gauge line which has steam and diesel hauled passenger trains. The main site at Swanwick has a museum devoted to the Midland Railway as well as a large collection of steam and diesel locomotives. It is a day out for the whole family with model and miniature railways
Steeple Grange Light Railway
Wirksworth
Steeple Grange Light Railway When you visit the railway you can enjoy a unique train ride through dramatic limestone scenery
Rosliston Forestry Centre
Swadlincote
Rosliston Forestry Centre Discover a woodland wonderland. From quiet walks to action-packed family fun, uncover nature at its best.
Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes
Swadlincote
Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes In this most southerly part of rural Derbyshire, Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes offers visitors lots of fun ways to enjoy a very special corner of the New National Forest . They have over 66 acres of emerging young woodland to explore with thriving wildlife, fishing lakes and a family-friendly animal farm.
Staunton Harold Reservoir
Melbourne
Staunton Harold Reservoir A wildlife habitat offering many outdoor and leisure activities, such as adventure playgrounds, fishing, bird watching, sailing and cycling.
Huntfun Derby Treasure Hunt
Derby
Huntfun Derby Treasure Hunt A great fun way to explore in your own town or when visiting somewhere new. Fun for all the family and something a bit different getting everyone out and about in the fresh air for a few hours.
Thanks for all the great places to go when visiting derbyshire you keep sending in.
Now the summer holidays are upon us, we're trying to find as many things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor soft playcentres, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, castles, railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, ten pin bowling alleys, steam railways and other tourist attractions.
Also teachers may find the site useful for ideas for the best places to take their classes on school journeys.
So, if you've been for great days out with the kids, or a school trip, which isn't listed above, just send in an email and we'll add it on so people on holidays and all the other children in derbyshire can enjoy the great day out as well.
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