Trelay View Campsite

Keep the kids active with days out on the water at Tamar Lakes Activity Centre (20 minutes’ drive), where you can go paddleboarding and kayaking or learn to sail a dinghy. Families can easily spend a day on the fairground rides and in the petting zoo at The Milky Way Adventure Park (half an hour), or take toddlers to feed lambs (in spring) and cuddle baby goats at The BIG Sheep (45 minutes). When a day at the seaside is requested, you have a choice of North Cornwall beaches within about 15 minutes’ drive, including the popular sands and rock pool at Summerleaze Beach, the saltwater Bude Sea Pool (also 15 minutes) and the dog-friendly expanse at National Trust-owned Sandymouth Bay Beach (20 minutes). Surfers – novice and expert alike – should hotfoot it to Widemouth Bay (10 minutes) to catch its consistent Atlantic waves. If you’d rather explore on foot, grab a pair of comfy walking boats and have a meander along the South West Coast Path (five minutes), or go further afield for a yomp over heathland to the mysterious Nine Stones Stone Circle (40 minutes) on gorgeous Bodmin Moor.