What's on in Kielder

21/06/2025

20/06/2025

🚨 June events are nearly sold out and July is filling fast!

If you’re planning a visit to Kielder Observatory this summer, we recommend booking soon to avoid missing out!

20/06/2025

🌞This summer, launch into space! Without staying up past bedtime!

Our daytime kids events at Kielder Observatory are the perfect way to fire up young imaginations during the school holidays!

🌌 Learn all about planets, stars, black holes & galaxies
🧠 Ask our expert astronomers anything (yes, even about aliens)
🪐 Get hands-on with real space rocks and solar telescopes
🎒 Perfect for curious minds aged 7+ (and grown-ups who love a good space fact)

No need to stay up late - these are daytime-only sessions, packed with stellar fun (and a few bad space puns from our team, free of charge).

🎫 Book your tickets now before they vanish into a black hole!

20/06/2025

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20/06/2025

14/06/2025

Always time for a shower! We will be picking the name for our new young Long-eared Owl tomorrow 🦉 any more suggestions feel free and keep your eyes peeled 😀 we are open from 10.30am-4pm daily with flying demonstrations at 1.30pm and 3pm daily ( weather dependent ⛈️) no need to book just pay on the gate

12/06/2025

🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE - We are closing! 😱

The stars will still shine… but for one week, we won’t be there to point at them dramatically.

From 19th to 25th June, Kielder Observatory will be closed for essential maintenance.

No, aliens haven’t landed.
No, we haven’t been swallowed by a black hole.
We’re just giving the place a little tune-up - telescopes need love too!🔭♥

So there is no need to launch a rescue mission - we’ll be back and better than ever on 26th June, ready to welcome you under the stars (or clouds… we’ll see).

Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you very soon! 🚀🛠️🌌

05/06/2025

Challenge yourself to this epic coast-to-coast 300k gravel event. Pedal from one side of the UK to the other, from Scotland to England, on quiet lanes and gravel trails, over one day or two.

30/05/2025

THE first osprey chicks of the season have begun to hatch at England's largest forest.

22/05/2025

Still not the found the new mtb trail sections on Deadwater?

Map below helps set the scene...