Things to do in and around the Watford Junction station area.
Family Activities & Entertainment
Escape Hunt Watford
Packed with excitement, you and your teammates will leap into new worlds completing ground-breaking missions. Work as a team to find clues, solve puzzles and complete challenges before the time runs out. This isn’t something you watch, it’s something you experience – right in the heart of the action.
The Harlequin Watford Shopping Centre is one of the region’s largest indoor shopping and leisure destinations, located in the heart of the town centre, featuring a nine-screen IMAX Cineworld, Hollywood Bowl, restaurants and shops.
The Pump House is a thriving arts centre in the Lower High Street area of Watford that has been providing high quality artistic events for over 45 years and is a hub for emerging talent
Your little ones can explore the adventurous new children’s play areas! They can discover the play trails, swing on the jungle swing like a modern-day Tarzan or zoom down the slides. To make sure everyone can join in the fun, most of the equipment is ideal for children with disabilities.
An amazing beauty spot with a lot of history behind it, you can have a day out in this fantastic, Green Flag award-winning beauty spot, which has recently been voted one of the top 10 parks in the UK.
The Abbey Line Trail is a walk commissioned by the Abbey Community Rail Partnership and delivered by Countryside Management Hertfordshire. This is a nine mile walk from Watford Junction Station to St Albans Abbey Station. The walk can be completed in sections allowing you to use the train to return to your start point.
PLEASE NOTE: Sections of the trail can become waterlogged after periods of heavy rain - sometimes without obvious alternative routes. Please go prepared for this eventuality.
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