Nature & Wildlife in Cornwall

Encounter Cornwall, an award-winning family business, has been offering daily guided kayak and canoe trips, hire, and top SUP lessons from Golant on the Fowey Estuary for over 10 years.

The largest section of Cornwall's National Landscape at nearly 200 square kilometers, Bodmin Moor is an expanse of grassland and heather punctuated by granite outcrops.

Near Bude on the North Cornwall coast, these two lakes offer a variety of activities including watersports, angling, walking and relaxing.

St Nectan’s Glen is an area of outstanding natural beauty where you can experience St Nectan's Kieve, a spectacular sixty foot waterfall splashing through a hole in the rocks.

The Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery is home to a treasure trove of art and artefacts shedding light on what makes Cornwall such a unique and special place.

This section of Cornwall's National Landscape runs from Par along the coast towards Looe and inland up the Fowey River as far as St Winnow.

Siblyback Lake, near Liskeard, is surrounded by the striking Bodmin Moor and offers a great day out for the whole family, offering walks, watersports and a popular cafe.

Visit this ancient and atmospheric estate with a medieval garden and historic house.

The ‘Hartland’ stretch of Cornwall's National Landscape is one of smallest in Cornwall. A high plateau of sandstone and slate meets the sea here in sheer cliffs up to 475 feet high.

A historic and exotic wooded valley garden leading down to the Helford River.

Cotehele is a beautiful and varied estate on the banks of the River Tamar. The atmospheric Tudor house has Medieval roots, and is decorated with tapestries, arms, and armour.

What better way to see the stunning coastline, coves, and bays surrounding St Ives than by booking a boat trip with the Little Mermaid? Get prepared to encounter nature's wonders on our Sea Safari's.

This sizeable section of Cornwall's National Landscape runs from St Ives to Mousehole and includes the coast, the high upland moors and villages, as well as the small granite town of St Just.

Explore 25 acres of sheltered garden bursting with exotic trees and shrubs. Wooded paths climb to an open, grassy terrace with sea views across Mount's Bay. Café, shop and second-hand bookshop.

An Elizabethan manor house with fine interiors and a delightful garden

This central section of the South Coast National Landscape takes in the land around the nine creeks of the Carrick Roads in the Fal estuary and the famous Roseland Peninsula.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust is the leading local charity working to protect and enhance Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places.

Discover the story of a family who became caught up in the events of the English Civil War. Their history is bound up in this beautiful house, which is still the home of the Carew Pole family today.

Stithians Lake offers watersports facilities in unique surroundings, children's play area and walking and cycling trails. For fly fishermen it's stocked with both rainbow and brown trout

Cardinham Woods is a beautiful forest covering valley slopes above a bubbling stream. Escape the crowded coast and get back to nature.

The headlands of Pentire and The Rumps, near Polzeath, are carpeted with wild flowers and command extraordinary coastal views.

National Trust Tintagel Old Post Office is one of Cornwall’s oldest domestic buildings dating from the 14th century. It has tales to tell including the years in the 1870s that it was a post office.

The Camel Estuary, from Padstow and Rock down river to Wadebridge, is one of only two ‘inland’ sections of Cornwall's National Landscape.

The Camel Trail is an 18 mile largely traffic free, surfaced and reasonably level multi use trail created from two disused railway lines in North Cornwall.