Strathclyde Country Park
Outdoor Play & Adventure Playgrounds · Motherwell, Glasgow & Clyde Valley
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🌳 Outdoor🆓 Free entry🛝 PlaygroundAdventure playWater play🏖 BeachSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
10 car-parking locations throughout with excess of 3000 spaces
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Strathclyde Country Park lies within 400 hectares of countryside in the valley of the River Clyde, on the outskirts of Motherwell. Run by North Lanarkshire Council, this free-to-access country park is one of the most popular family attractions in the central belt of Scotland. It offers adventure play areas, a beach and watersports at Strathclyde Loch, cycle paths, walks and picnic spots, and sits alongside M&D's Scotland's Theme Park.
Year-round events incl. rowing regattas, cycling and running events, firework display. Watersports on the loch reopen Spring 2026.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Wellies
- Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Ice packs
- Kitchen roll
- Umbrella
- Hand sanitiser
- Woolly hat
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
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