Adventure & rides in Warrington

Most of this page has an age or a height gate on it, so check before anyone gets excited. Karting at Bank Quay needs a driver of eight or over with a 25 inch inside leg, Jungle Parc's high ropes at Walton Hall take children from four, once they reach 1.05m, and the Northwest Face, fifty four climbing lines inside a Victorian church on Winwick Road, needs a registered adult alongside any under 12, at £9 a child and £12 an adult plus a £15 registration.

Gulliver's World is the exception and the default full day, built for ages 2 to 13 so a toddler and a ten-year-old can ride most of the same things. Jurassic Cove at Bents in Glazebury is the gentle one, eighteen holes of outdoor crazy golf through dinosaurs and pirate wrecks at £21 for a family of four, though it drops to weekends only from October. TeamSport will not show you a price until you start booking.

Adventure & rides in Warrington

Discobowl Warrington

Warrington~10 min

★★★★★4.5(714)

Bowling, Scrapyard crazy golf, an arcade and a toddler soft play inside Golden Square, open from 9am daily. Bowl for £3 a game before 11am; after that it's £8, and the arcade will want feeding too.

Bowling £8 a game, £3 before 11amIndoorsAges 2-14

Jurassic Cove Adventure Golf at Bents

Warrington~20 min

★★★★☆4.3(68)

Eighteen holes of outdoor crazy golf behind the Bents garden centre in Glazebury. It starts among life-sized dinosaurs, some of which move, and finishes round pirate shipwrecks. A family of four plays for £21.

Child £5.50, adult £7.50Ages 3-11

Gulliver's World

Warrington~15 min

★★★★☆4.0(9,643)

A theme park deliberately built for ages 2 to 13 rather than teenagers, so both of them can ride most of it. The classic full-day option on your doorstep.

Full day ticketAges 4-9

Jungle Parc

Warrington~10 min

★★★★★4.5(10)

Treetop rope courses in the woods at Walton Hall Gardens. The Warrington site runs the Adventurer course, built for children from age 4 with a minimum height of 1.05m, with over 60 activities at different heights. Children £19; supervising adults walking below go free.

Children £19, supervising adults freeAges 4-11

The Northwest Face

WarringtonIn town

★★★★★4.8(393)

A climbing centre in a Victorian church on Winwick Road since 1996, with fifty four lines, eight auto belays and a 100 square metre bouldering area. You are climbing too: under 12s need a registered adult alongside them.

Under 12s £9, adults £12, plus £15 registrationIndoorsAges 6-11

TeamSport Go Karting Warrington

WarringtonIn town

★★★★☆4.4(3,737)

The biggest purpose built indoor karting track in the country, a kilometre of circuit with 22 corners and a tunnel, behind Bank Quay station. Inside leg catches people out: drivers must be eight and measure 25 inches.

Price not listed until you bookIndoorsAges 8-11

Adventure & rides elsewhere in the North West

BeWILDerwood Cheshire

Malpas~45 min

★★★★★4.6(1,400)

The best age match of anything on this list. Reviewers put the sweet spot at 2 to 10 and say a 4-year-old can do essentially the whole park; the map colour-codes areas by age and puts mini zipwires beside the full-size ones. Budget four to six hours.

From £20.95; under 92cm freeAges 4-10

Zip World Manchester

Manchester~35 min

★★★★★4.7(752)

Treetop nets, high ropes and forest tubing in the woods of Heaton Park, and it is outdoors, not indoors. The cheap one is Treetot Nets: an hour bouncing on nets in the trees for ages 1 to 5, from £5, with a grown-up joining in.

Treetot Nets from £5, Treetop Nets from £25Ages 1-11

Legoland Discovery Centre

Trafford~25 min

★★★★☆4.0(4,657)

Two rides, a 4D cinema, build zones and Manchester's skyline done in miniature bricks. Squarely aimed at 3 to 10, and it knows it: adults can only visit with a child.

Book online - walk-up costs moreIndoorsAges 4-9

The Snow Centre Manchester

Trafford~25 min

★★★★☆4.4(5,629)

Real snow all year round at the venue Manchester still calls Chill Factore. Over-fours get the Snow Park with sledging, Downhill Donuts and an ice slide at weekends and in the school holidays; older kids can learn to ski or board on the UK's longest indoor real snow slope.

Pay per sessionIndoorsAges 4-11

East Lancashire Railway

Bury~40 min

★★★★★4.8(3,326)

Heritage steam and diesel trains on a 12 mile line from Heywood through Bury and Ramsbottom to Rawtenstall. A Day Rover lets you hop off at any of the seven stations and catch the next one back, and there are themed family trains through the autumn and at Christmas.

Family Day Rover £62 online, £67 on the dayAges 4-11

Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Blackpool~1 hr

★★★★☆4.3(35,528)

The big one. Nickelodeon Land covers the primary ages properly while the Big One and the wooden coasters wait for brave older kids. August queues are real; go in expecting them and it is a great day.

Wristbands - cheaper onlineAges 4-11