Escot Country Park and Gardens

An excellent day out if you have young children. The annual season tickets are great value if you’re going to visit regularly. Lots of outdoor attractions otters, birds of prey, owls, red squirells, trampoline, slides, woodland walks etc. My kids would be happy to spend all day on the pirate ship. Nice tea rooms and an indoor soft play barn is also available to wear the kids out. One of our favourite family days out.

Good value for money and the maze is brilliant. Restaurant is very good, and I didn’t think was too expensive.
Lots to see, and lots for kids to do.

I love Escot as it’s a brilliant place to take kids, and there is something there for everyone. You can view the otter feeding and bird of prey displays at certain times, and there are lots of small animals for the kids to stroke and feed.
There is a large maze to run through, plus things like teepees to explore. The woodlands are brilliant and have lots of information throughout — I especially like the cork tree which is strung with corks!
I would say the restaurant is slightly expensive, so take your own food, but you can buy a yearly pass which gets you some money off in the shop
Worth a visit, especially if you need to entertain the kids and wear them out!

Escot is excellent for toddlers to young teenagers. The Falconry Shows are amazing. The café does very nice cream teas, light lunches and cakes! The Otters are really cute and there are Otter feeding ‘shows’ too.

Escot is an amazing place! They have beautiful gardens, a confusing beech maze and great woodlands.
The other main attractions are falconry, otters, and new beavers.
The thing that my kids like to do the most is the letterboxing. To those who don’t know letterboxing (I think it may be originally a Devon thing?!?), you have a set of clues and an answer sheet. You find the ‘treasure which has a rubber stamp attached to it. you stamp your answer card to prove you have found the right place.
The kids love it — it is designed for them here — the dartmoor letterboxing is somewhat harder!
New this year is a horrible vertical slide thingy. i desperately tried to find the courage to go off it myself, but alas, I had to look stupid in front of my 4 year old who did it about a dozen times!
There is also an aquatic centre, a blacksmith and a wonderful tea-​room.
Well worth a visit!