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RSPB Minsmere

Coastal nature reserve with woods and wetland, 7 bird spotting hides, nature trails, shop and café.

Description
Pricing
Opening Times
Facilities
Other Events at RSPB Minsmere
Description

Discover some of the UK’s rarest wildlife and enjoy family-friendly activities at Minsmere. Choose an idyllic walk or head to the coastal lagoons to see an impressive variety of birds, including avocets, bearded tits and bitterns. If you’re lucky, you might see an otter around the reedbed pools. We have a visitor centre, café, toilets, parking, nature trails and viewing areas, education facilities and a busy guided walks and events programme. Dogs are welcome in the visitor centre but are not allowed on the nature trails. Please ask reception for details of where you can walk your dog.

Pricing

RSPB members free
Adults £9
Children £5
Students £6
Under 5s free
Families first child free

Opening Times

Nature reserve: open daily, dawn-dusk.
Car park: open daily, dawn-dusk.
Visitor Centre: open daily
9am-5pm, 1 February-31 October.
9am-4pm, 1 November-31 January.
Shop: open daily
9am-5pm, 1 February-31 October.
9am-4pm, 1 November-31 January.
Café: open daily
9.30am-4.00pm, 1 February-31 October.
10am-3.30pm, 1 November-31 January.
Toilets: open daily, dawn-dusk.
Christmas closure: The reserve, including all trails, buildings, facilities and car park, will be closed on December 25 Christmas Day and 26 Boxing Day.

Facilities
  • Accessible toilets
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchairs available
  • Hearing loop
  • Baby changing
RSPB Minsmere
Sheepwash Lane
Saxmundham
Suffolk
IP17 3BY