Gardens, viewpoints and places worth a visit across Dorset and the south coast — honest visitor guides with prices, opening times, dog-friendliness and whether they're actually worth the trip.
A flooded clay pit that turns turquoise and green depending on where you stand, an Art Deco tearoom, a rope bridge, fairy doors through the woodland, and ice cream at the end. The Blue Pool is the kind of place families keep coming back to.
Ten acres of immaculate gardens in Canford Cliffs, dog friendly throughout, and the kind of place you can spend a couple of hours or most of a day depending on how many times Maple tries to drink from the Japanese garden pond.
Free to enter, 1,000 acres of forest and lakes, a steam railway, mountain bike trails, Go Ape, and walks you can make as short or as long as you want. I have been here for runs, family bike rides, the play area, the ducks, and countless walks. It never gets old.
