Dalkeith Country Park
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Dalkeith, Edinburgh & Lothians
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Open now — closes 7pm
🌳 Outdoor🌲 Woodland🛝 Playground🆓 Free entryMemberships availableBirthday partiesOvernight
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Buggy friendly
- Birthday parties
- Dogs welcome
£4 per car per day, card or cash. Main vehicle entrance King's Gate (EH22 1ST, 2.7m height restriction); Town Gate on Dalkeith High Street (EH22 2NA) for larger vehicles. Free parking for Acorn members.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Dalkeith Country Park is a 1,000-acre country estate in Midlothian, just a few miles from Edinburgh, offering free entry to its parkland and waymarked woodland walks. Families come for the Fort Douglas adventure playground (paid, open daily 10:00-17:00), the Go Ape treetop adventure course, buggy-friendly walking trails like the Wildernesse Walk, and Restoration Yard, a restored stableyard with a store, coffee bar and kid-friendly kitchen restaurant. There is a £4 parking charge. Dogs are welcome on the trails.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Insect repellent
- Sun hat
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Sun cream
- Notebook
- I-spy book
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