Best Gifts for Outdoor Families who love Adventure

Are you looking for a gift for an adventurous and outdoor loving family? Here is your ultimate outdoors family gift guide for families that love adventures and spending time in nature. There’s loads of outdoor gift ideas for families – ideas from thrilling adventure gift experiences to outdoor gadgets and gizmos. These are gifts that will last well beyond Christmas and bring the family together as you adventure through 2024. Christmas gift ideas can be tricky to think of for those that like to be outdoors – winter is hardly the time to be thinking about outside adventures. But – if you’re buying for the outdoorsy person in your life or a family who loves to travel – I’ve selected my top gifts for the adventurer in your life and gifts that will bring your family closer together one adventure at a time. If you have an active, curious, outdoorsy child to buy for – you’ll find some great ideas in our Nature Gift Guide for Kids.

Outdoor Gift Guide Ideas for Families

Treasure Trails

Treasure Trails make a great outdoor gift for families as they are outdoor treasure hunts that enable you to turn a usual day out into an adventure. The Trails are all outdoors and perfect for an outdoor family day out for those with a love of nature – there are a wide variety trails all over the UK are allowing you to get out there and explore your local area and beyond. Book your gift experience here.

English Heritage Membership

Another gift idea for an outdoorsy family is an English Heritage Membership. Nothing beats standing on the spot where History happened and you can do that all year round with an English Heritage Membership. We love visiting the English Heritage properties near us as they have great playgrounds for the kids and really good seasonal events for Christmas, Halloween etc…… find out about our latest English Heritage Day Out at Hever Castle. 

Wild Camping Website

Buy your adventure loving family a subscription for the best website for wilder camping trips. Wild Spaces offer an annual subscription where you can check out the map, and you’ll find campsites, Wild Spaces, plus viewpoints, rock faces, trails and more. Every campsite is marked according to their Wild Grade, so you can choose just how wild you want to go. CampWild saves you time and ditches all the worry around the unknowns. Their mission is to open up more of the UK countryside and enable more people to experience the wilder side of life. As a member of CampWild, you can plan an off-grid adventure with confidence and you can buy a ‘nature prescription’ gift which comes with beanie hat, bamboo spork, £20 voucher and a lovely Camp  Wild camping tin.  Buy a subscription here. 

Outdoor Bean Bags

If you’re looking for a gift idea for the entire family, then outdoor bean bags are a great option! They are comfortable and look stylish outdoors but could be brought inside during the winter too. These are practical gifts that are great to have in the garden for family BBQs or for active kids to unwind on! These outdoor bean bags from Great Bean Bags company come in so many different colours which is why we love them!

Cook Out Recipe Book

Cook Out by Harrison Ward is the ultimate outdoor adventure cookbook. There are over 80 of his easy-to-prepare outdoor al fresco recipes you can really enjoy, whether you’re out on a hike, wild camping or simply relaxing in the campsite. We loved the one-pot meals including Tuscan bean stew the delicious chickpea, spinach and coconut curry. The great thing is there’s also campstove and equipment advice, and tips and tricks throughout from Harrison’s years of outdoor cooking experience. This is a great book idea for older kids or big kids! Buy a copy of Cookout here! It’s perfect for an outdoor-loving friend!

Outdoorsy Gift Ideas for Families

Go Ape Tree Top Adventure

Enjoy a day out in the trees that is a perfect adventure for kids aged 4 upwards with a Buy a Gift Go Ape Adventure. If you’re buying for an outdoorsy family or even a gift for kids, tweens or teens – Go Ape is great fun for a family with kids of any age. Here’s our review of our day out at Go Ape – we had the best time! You can buy a variety of Go Ape vouchers here for families with kids of any age.

Secret Trails

Running in York and London, secret trails are real-world adventure games. You solve a trail of riddles sent straight to your phone, adventure across the city and enjoy optional pub breaks along the way! This is a perfect Christmas gift for families that love to walk and find new places. Book your gift voucher here.

Best gifts for Outdoorsy Families

Plant or Dedicate a Tree

If you need a gift idea for an eco-friendly family, you can donate a tree and dedicate it with Treedom. Perfect for nature lovers! Treedom plants trees in 17 different countries across the world, in partnership with smallholder farmers and NGOs. Each individual tree is geolocated and photographed, with regular updates posted in a Diary so you can keep an eye on your tree growing over the years. The trees can be gifted to friends, family members and loved ones with just a click – the perfect green gift for Christmas but it’s also a lovely for a new baby or christening gift.It’s also a cute idea for outdoorsy kids.

TOG24 Hoodies

A perfect outdoorsy gift idea for men who love the outdoors is a snuggly hoodie. With its bold sunrise and birds graphic on the front, TOG24 Pendleberry mens overhead hoody is perfect for walks in the woods, or an evening in the pub with friends. This warm and cosy sweatshirt comes in a supersoft, sustainable cotton rich blend. You can find all TOG24 hoodies to buy here.

TOG24 Coats and Gloves

When you want warm hands but freedom of movement is still key, these snug cable knit gloves fit the bill perfectly. The handy fold over design allows two ways of wearing – mittens or fingerless gloves – whilst still keeping hands toasty! Buy them here!

TOG24 coats are perfect for cold winters and can keep you warm on winter walks. They are wind resistant, ultra warm and velvety soft. They have mid-layers for wearing under waterproofs on wet days, and cosy lightweight bodywarmers and over a jumper when it’s dry. Each coat uses the high tech insulating filling, made entirely from recycled plastic bottles which makes it ultra warm. They’re the perfect choice for outerwear for everyone in the family this Winter! Find the whole TOG24 selection of coats for the whole family here.

Christmas gift ideas for adventurous types

Camping Equipment

If you’re looking for a gift for outdoorsy families, then you can’t go wrong with camping equipment. Outdoor World Direct have a whole selection of camping equipment for new and experienced campers so there’s something for everyone even for their first camping trip. We loved these inflatable sofas and chairs they are a perfect gift for campers, the Vango Inflatable Donut chair from Outdoor World Direct is portable, easy to inflate and super comfortable. Available in three different colours, it weighs just less than 1kg and packs down very small, ideal for those with small boots or for festivals. And this Vango Combi IR Grill Compact – it A perfect gift for campers, The Vango Combi IR Grill is a compact cooker, ideal for campers needing a smaller pack size hob and grill. Complete with two hobs for cooking, and a grill for toasting. The cooker comes encased in a shell, and lid, folding away when not in use for easier portability and storage. Or Outdoor World Direct vouchers would make a good gift idea for newbie campers. Buy them here.

Regatta Waterproofs

Another gift idea for outdoor families are waterproofs! If you’re looking to have more adventures in 2024, you’ll need the right gear for all weathers for your next adventure. Regatta has waterproofs for the whole family to suit any age – from toddler splashsuits to teen raincoats.

Family Adventure Gift Ideas

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National Trust Membership

Best Outdoor Gifts to inspire Outdoor Adventures A National Trust membership is a great gift idea because it can be used at home and also whenever you are away in the UK. It’s a good membership for those with young kids as there’s lots of brilliant nature playgrounds at lots of the sites. National Trust properties are lovely places for a picnic and a cheap day out. We also use it when we are on long car journeys, so you look for a property en route to visit to give us a break and stretch your legs and get refreshments. You can purchase a family gift experience here.

Buy a Gift Adventure Experience

If you’re looking for the perfect family day out to spend quality time making memories – then a Buy a Gift Adventure Experience is a great idea and their hand-picked selection of activities include a wide range of experiences for sports enthusiasts, animal lovers, from Meet the Meerkats experience to a scuba diving lesson – there’s something for everyone!

Experience Gifts

Give the gift of adventure this year. You can purchase gift vouchers for the popular Rumble Live Action Gaming which brings popular battle royale video games such as Fortnite and Call of Duty to real life with team-based fun! Perfect for an outdoor enthusiast Located outdoors in eight acres of beautiful woodland, scavenge your environment to find utility boxes containing extra ammo, respawns and special weapon upgrades to take down the other team. This is loads of fun for families and would make a perfect gift for outdoorsy teens too!

Hope you find some unique gifts that are perfect for adventure-loving families! If you’re looking for some gift ideas for kids that love being outdoors – check out our Nature Gifts for Kids Ideas. Or here are our absolute favourite Nature Picture Books for kids that love to explore outdoors.