Borough-wide
Best Family Days Out in Dacorum
Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best family days out: from Hemel Hempstead’s neighbourhood parades to Berkhamsted High Street and the village pubs in between.
We start with places we would send a friend. When a village has no honest equivalent, we say so and point to the next town. That is how you build trust, and how you eventually rank.
A day that survives rain, a budget, and a child who is finished 40 minutes early.
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Hemel Hempstead
The Snow Centre
Indoor real-snow slope at St Albans Hill: lessons, sessions, birthday chaos.
Hemel Hempstead
Little Hay Golf Complex
Public golf, driving range and a promised padel-and-adventure-golf upgrade on Box Lane.
Hemel Hempstead
Gadebridge Park
Hemel’s principal park: river, play, events, and now a dog wash.
Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted Castle
Norman motte-and-bailey beside the station: free, ruined, endlessly climbable.
Berkhamsted
Ashridge Estate
5,000 acres of National Trust Chiltern woodland, monument and deer.
Tring
Natural History Museum at Tring
Walter Rothschild’s private museum: stuffed mammals, birds, and a free-entry wonder.
Tring
Tring Reservoirs
Four summit reservoirs: Wilstone, Startops, Marsworth, Tringford: for birds and a long loop.
Tring
Aldbury village and pond
Stocks, pond, timber frames: the Chiltern village everyone already photographed.
Bovingdon
Bovingdon Market
Huge Saturday outdoor market on the airfield edge: plants, tools, clothes, food.
Berkhamsted
The Rex Cinema
Art Deco cinema on the High Street: still a proper single-screen night out.
Bovingdon
XC Extreme
High ropes and outdoor activity on the Bovingdon side of Hemel.