You’ve unpacked and settled into your holiday accommodation and now it’s time to get out and about and explore the local area. Dumfries and Galloway offers many local attractions with something for all ages to enjoy. It’s time to start planning which local attractions take your fancy!
Visit Dalscone Farm Fun for indoor soft play and outdoor attractions, animals, including exotics, café and farm safari. Or Mabie Farm Park for farm animals, donkey rides, indoor and outdoor play/activities and tearoom. And Mossburn Community Farm to meet the charity’s rescued animals.
Home to noted artists from the 1880s onwards, including E.A. Hornel and Jessie M. King, and visiting artists, such as Scottish Colourist S.J. Peploe. Now the picturesque harbour town is associated with many creatives including former Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, Ewan McClure, and home to Wasps studios, a local artists’ shop, art tours, galleries, and an annual arts and crafts trail.
Great fun for the kids in children or family workshops making chocolate creations to take home. Indoor soft play and outdoor adventure playground plus an excellent café too. Good wet weather option.
A wide moat, twin-towered gatehouse and lofty battlements make Caerlaverock the epitome of the medieval stronghold. Learn all about its turbulent history as a castle caught up in border conflicts.
Co-founded by Outlander actor Sam Heughan in 2025, Galloway Distillery was inspired by the ‘unbreakable connection to his native land’: the famous actor was born near Castle Douglas. Tours including tastings to learn about the distillery’s award-winning crafted gin, vodka and whisky are popular.
Choose from paddle boarding, laser tag, archery, the ‘wobbly waterpark’ (inflatable assault course), sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, mountain biking, climbing and high ropes, water slide, giant swing, night time activities and the finish in the Loch Ken sauna. Café. Good for wet or fair weather.
Astronaut suits, a gravity model, a 360o screen of the solar system are some of the state-of-the-art, custom-made, interactive exhibits in the Kirkcudbright attraction all about space exploration, our solar system, space technology and even your own body. In a former primary school also housing the Wee Pottery (ceramic painting) and the award-winning Dark Arts Distillery.
Guided 4x4 deer tours for groups of up to 10, deer feeding, a popular ‘escape room’, fresh-cooked bistro food and shop near Dalbeattie.
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Explore Things to Do in The Great Outdoors
As well as plenty of local attractions to keep you entertained, this area offers so much so do in the great outdoors - whatever the weather!
Explore The Great Outdoors
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Delicious Food & Drink
After all that exploring and sightseeing, you're going to need to re-fuel! Take a look at the fantastic variety of places to enjoy food and drink in the local area.
Find Places to Eat & Drink
