Palacerigg Country Park

Palacerigg Country Park is a free visitor attraction and welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year who come to enjoy their facilities including the children’s farm that homes a number of rare breed animals. Palacerigg Country Park Enjoy the wildlife, Millennium longhouses, environmental education, kids playpark and much more

Set in the hills to the south-east of Cumbernauld, Palacerigg Country Park is well signposted from the town centre road network.

It is less than half an hour's drive from Glasgow, Motherwell, Stirling or Falkirk. Established in the early 1970s, Palacerigg has been developed around the objectives of conservation, environmental education and countryside recreation.

More than 40 hectares of what was once a bleak upland farm have been planted with hundreds of thousands of native trees and shrubs.

This new, sheltered environment provides a sanctuary for wildlife including thriving populations of roe deer, badger, fox and hare as well as sparrowhawk, kestrel, long-eared and short-eared owl.

Palacerigg Country Park's Visitor Centre is open 9am - 4.15pm and the cafe is open from 10am - 3.45pm (from 11am during winter).