Wicken Fen
Nature Reserves, Country Parks & Beaches · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Closed — opens 9.30am
🌳 Outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entrySeasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesToddler sessionsMemberships available🐐 AnimalsWater play🌲 WoodlandEducationalOvernight
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- SEN friendly
Members park free of charge; please scan your membership card in the car park machine to get your parking ticket to display, as well as showing your cards to a member of the Welcome team to register your visit. non-members pay and display is £3.20 (payment by cash or via JustPark app requiring download). Blue badge parking is free of charge
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Wicken Fen is the National Trust's oldest nature reserve, a rare fenland wetland with boardwalks, reedbeds and wildlife. Families can spot dragonflies, birds and ponies along the trails and join seasonal activities.
the longer Summer Nature Trail is open from June to end September.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Wellies- Puddle suitThe only way a toddler stays dry at a farm in February.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
Dummy and a spare- Blister plastersNew shoes and a long walk are a bad pairing.
Snack pot
Bike helmet
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