Ride the North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Pickering to Goathland and see the Harry Potter station
Rock pool and fossil hunt at Robin Hood's Bay or Runswick Bay on a falling tide
Dalby Forest: play trails, easy cycle routes and the Go Ape treetop course
Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole, with dressing up, old shops and free-range chickens
The Moors Centre at Danby: adventure playground, river paddling and a wildlife garden, all free
Climb Roseberry Topping, a mountain in miniature that takes forty minutes
The 199 steps in Whitby, counted, then fish and chips on the pier
Feed wild birds from your hand at Forge Valley Woods
Falling Foss and the tea garden by the waterfall
Flamingo Land theme park and zoo near Pickering for a full-on day
Wet weather: the railway, Ryedale Folk Museum, Whitby Museum and the Dracula Experience. Ice cream: Beacon Farm at Sneaton, and the greens at Great Ayton and Hutton-le-Hole.
