Kids Days out Scottish Highlands with places to visit, for family, and things to do

Great Railway Journeys!

The famous Jacobite Steam Train - from Fort William

West Coast Railways, "The Jacobite" Steam Train - Fort William and Mallaig

Jacobite - Fort William to Mallaig

Scottish Highlands

Experience the breathtaking beauty of the Scittish Highlands aboard the World-famous Jacobite...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 7731

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Rothiemurchus Estate - Aviemore

Many outdoor activities

Inverness-shire

Activities and adventures including fishing, pony trekking and mountain biking. Later, you can...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 5844

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Invergordon Leisure Centre

Main pool, learner pool and a toddler pool available!

Ross & Cromarty

The leisure features, including flume, steam room, mushroom pump, bubble seat, water canons and...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5899

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Fairburn Activity Centre

Outdoor Activities for all ages!

Ross-shire

Lots of activities at this outdoor centre including paintball, ariel runway, mountain biking,...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 6170

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The Strathspey Railway - Aviemore

A great day out for the kids.

Inverness-shire

The Strathspey Railway, located in the Central Highlands of Scotland, runs between the...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 7237

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Dunbeath Heritage Centre

Come and explore the Dunbeath Heritage Centre!

Caithness

This small museum is well worth a visit with good displays from the history of the area.

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 6114

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Youngsters having fun in the Swimming Pool on the Isle of Harris

Isle of Harris Sports Centre

Lots of watersports here for all the family including swimming

Isle of Harris

The activities at the centre include swimming lessons, snorkelling, lane swimming, circuit...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 3088

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Raasay Outdoor Centre

Outdoor Activities for all ages

Kyle

An Outdoor Centre with lots of activities including sailing. Full progamme of courses.

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 5958

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Highland Museum of Childhood

The museum tells the story of childhood in the Highlands

Ross and Cromarty

Learn about childhood amongst hardworking crofters and townsfolk, where money and luxuries were...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5547

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Bella Jane Boat Trips on the Isle of Skye

Bella Jane Boat Trips - Elgol - Isle of Skye

Another one of our great attractions!

Isle of Skye

Transporting people to Loch Coruisk, one of Scotland's most isolated and breathtaking lochs....

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 6913

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Inverness Museum & Art Gallery

Another days out idea for kids in Inverness!

Inverness-shire

Explore our lively "Man in the Landscape" exhibition and our Discovery Centre, both on the ground...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5937

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Calums Seal Trips, Plockton

Scottish Highlands West Coast

Seal trips from the beautiful town of Plockton on the Scottish West Coast. Calum Mackenzie and...

Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 3143

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Atlantic Leisure, Oban

Family fun at Atlantic Leisure Swimming Pool in Oban

Scottish Highlands West Coast

Come along and make a splash in our 25 metre pool with the fastest flume on the West Coast. The...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 4491

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Ride Hebrides

horse ride along one of the beautiful Hebridean beaches at the height of summer

Outer Hebrides

Horsriding on a beach on the Outer Hebrides - perfect for the family. There's little to beat the...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: No
Kids Days Out visits: 3076

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Ancient cottage with thatch roof overlooking the sea on the Isle of Skye

Skye Museum

Step back in time to an old Highland village

Isle of Skye

Step back in time to an old Highland village. The museum offers visitors a unique experience and...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 2876

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Highland Wildlife Park - Kingussie

Amazing Variety of animals

Inverness-shire

You can drive around the main reserve in your own car. Also plenty to see in the walk around area. Also features a play area.

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 7283

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Summer Queen Cruises - Ullapool

Go exploring with Summer Queen Cruises!

Cromartyshire

From Ullapool Pier, take a cruises for 2 or 4 hours, and enjoy the beauty of Loch Broom and the Western Isles.

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 4894

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Seaprobe Atlantis

Glass bottomed semi-submersible boat

Ross-shire

Operating within the marine conservation area of at Kyle of Lochalsh. A unique opportunity to see...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5600

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Hebridean Adventures

Wildlife cruises from Stornaway for a great Kids Day Out in Stornway

Outer Hebrides

Wildlife cruises from Stornaway for a great Kids Day Out in Stornway. We will spend approximately...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: No
Kids Days Out visits: 2943

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Kids enjoying outdoor activities in Argyllshire

Stramash Outdoor Activities

Freedom to learn, inspired by nature

Angus

Freedom to learn, inspired by nature. Outdoor activities for kids of all ages and abilities. Take...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 3950

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Arnol Blackhouse. Isle of Lewis

Presentations and displays.

Western isles

A fully furnished, traditional, Lewis thatched house Providing a unique insight into island life.

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 6424

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Newtonmore Highland Folk Museum

Museum

Inverness-shire

Here you actually enter the World of the Highlander and experience walking through a number of...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5774

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Hebridean Whale Cruises

Scottish Highlands West Coast

Welcome to Hebridean Whale Cruises. We operate whale watching and wildlife cruises from Gairloch,...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: No
Kids Days Out visits: 2971

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Fast boat on the sea near the west coast of Scotland

Western Isles Cruises

Boat and rib Trips on the West Coast of Scotland

Mallaig

Western Isles Cruises offer unforgettable experiences that will live with you forever. Take the...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 2886

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Doune Broch Centre

Mainly underground

Isle of Lewis

It contains an exhibition giving an idea of what life was like in the broch.

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: No
Kids Days Out visits: 5929

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The Original Loch Ness Monster Visitors Centre - Drumnadrochit

Another of our things to do in Inverness-shire.

Inverness-shire

The Exhibition presents you with the up-to-the-minute facts and fully documented evidence from...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Offers: See website for offers
Kids Days Out visits: 5809

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RSPB, Forsinard Nature Reserve - Forsinard

Birds on this 24,000 acre reserve!

Highland

Varieties of birds including golden plovers, dunlins and merlins breed on the reserve. Nature...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 6319

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Lochbroom Leisure

Sports Centre and Swimming Pool.

Ross & Cromarty

An assortment of indoor and outdoor facilities are available at Lochbroom leisure centre plus...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 5680

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2 Dolphins swimming alongside on boat trip

Sealife Adventures

Scottish West Coast

Sealife Adventures run whale search and wildlife watching boat trips from our pontoon on the...

Free Attraction: No
Kids Days Out visits: 3713

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Ganavan Beach, Oban

Enjoy one of the best beaches in Scotland

Argyllshire

Ganavan Beach, Oban is one of the best beaches in Scotland and a great place for a day out with...

Free Attraction: Yes
Wheelchair friendly: No
Kids Days Out visits: 4551

John O' Groats Ferries Ltd

Spectacular 90 minute afternoon cruises this summer.

Caithness

Pass rugged cliff scenery and see arctic skuas, storm petrels, colonies of guillemots, puffins,...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 6351

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Misty Isle Boat Trips - Elgol - Isle of Skye

What a great day out!

Inverness

Wonderful relaxed fun wildlife and sightseeing cruises from Elgol on the Isle of Skye. Possible...

Free Attraction: No
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Kids Days Out visits: 6085

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Gourock Outdoor Pool Inverness

Family fun at Gourock Outdoor Pool

Renfrewshire

Enjoy a family swim in the saltwater open air pool at Gourock, Inverness, Scotland.

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Partly - see website
Kids Days Out visits: 6144

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Dolphin spotting on our boat trips!

Dolphin Spirit, Inverness

Visit Bottlenose Dolphins for a fascinating day out!

Inverness-shire

Adventure out on the "Dolphin Spirit" ferry and "Dolphin Mischief" RIB to see the Bottlenose...

Free Attraction: Partly - See Website
Wheelchair friendly: Yes
Offers: Family discounts available
Kids Days Out visits: 6391

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Highlands & Islands

West Coast Railways, "The Jacobite" Steam Train - Fort William and Mallaig

Rothiemurchus Estate - Aviemore

Invergordon Leisure Centre

Fairburn Activity Centre

The Strathspey Railway - Aviemore

Dunbeath Heritage Centre

Isle of Harris Sports Centre

Raasay Outdoor Centre

Highland Museum of Childhood

Bella Jane Boat Trips - Elgol - Isle of Skye

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery

Calums Seal Trips, Plockton

Atlantic Leisure, Oban

Ride Hebrides

Skye Museum

Highland Wildlife Park - Kingussie

Summer Queen Cruises - Ullapool

Seaprobe Atlantis

Hebridean Adventures

Stramash Outdoor Activities

Arnol Blackhouse. Isle of Lewis

Newtonmore Highland Folk Museum

Hebridean Whale Cruises

Western Isles Cruises

Doune Broch Centre

The Original Loch Ness Monster Visitors Centre - Drumnadrochit

RSPB, Forsinard Nature Reserve - Forsinard

Lochbroom Leisure

Sealife Adventures

Ganavan Beach, Oban

John O' Groats Ferries Ltd

Misty Isle Boat Trips - Elgol - Isle of Skye

Gourock Outdoor Pool Inverness

Dolphin Spirit, Inverness