Drum Castle
Museums & Science Centres · Aberdeen, Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire
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Open now — closes 4.30pm
🏠 Indoor & outdoorCastleGardens🌲 WoodlandSeasonal opening🛝 Playground
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Car park GBP5.00; free for NTS members
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Drum Castle is a National Trust for Scotland property near Banchory combining a medieval tower, Jacobean mansion and historic gardens and woodland. Family-friendly with walks, trails and events through the year.
Castle, shop, tearoom and walled garden open seasonally (Easter-Nov main season; winter weekends Thu-Sun). Grounds open daily dawn-dusk.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Backseat organiser
- Travel games
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Kitchen roll
- Ice packs
- Folding stool
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