What's on this half term

Dartmoor National Park Authority have a wonderful range of activities for families this half term.

Halloween mask masking and bat trails. Saturday 26 October - Sunday 3 November. All visitor centres 

All DNPA visitor centres are inviting you to come and get crafty by making a Halloween mask to take home. Centres at Princetown or Postbridge also have leaflets for their bat trails, allowing visitors to learn about these wonderful creatures that can be seen in certain areas throughout our National Park. 

Spooky crafts. Monday 28 October, Wednesday 30 October, Friday 1 November. 11am - 3pm 
Princetown Visitor Centre 

Wonderful Voluntary Warden Helen Jenny will be inspiring visitors to create items in some special crafty sessions with a spooky twist. She'll be helping you make bats from paper, origami-style and create some spooky ghosts using wool. No booking needed, just pop in.

Nocturnal Dartmoor. Thursday 31 October. 10.30am - 3.30pm
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter

DNPA are delighted to be supporting the Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape exhibition at RAMM, showing now until 23 February 2025. 

They are supporting the exhibition with a unique event exploring ‘Nocturnal Dartmoor’. Learn about the wildlife that lives on the moor and comes out at night, hear the sounds of the Dartmoor night sky through the interactive exhibit and make your own spooky bat to take home. 

Autumn fun and folklore. Friday 1 November. 1.30pm - 5pm
Parke National Trust

Organised by the National Trust, come and take part in an autumn fun and folklore afternoon event with craft activities and story-telling. Booking isn't needed - come find us in the walled garden.  A free family event for all the community. There will be craft activities and 'hunt the squash' fun, you can find out all about bats or come along to one, or all three, of our scheduled mysterious tales and Dartmoor folklore in Story Corner.

Stories will start at 2.30pm, 3.15pm and 4pm.

The National Trust are supported by community contributors Participate Arts and the Dartmoor National Park Authority as well as thrilled to host knowledgeable local guide, Dartmoor's Daughter.

Exhibition: the official Dartmoor National Park Calendar 2025. Now until 24 November. Princetown Visitor Centre

The free exhibition of images taken by DNPA staff, some of which are featured in the official Dartmoor National Park Calendar 2025, has been extended. Browse the exhibition before buying a calendar as a gift for a loved one.