Peak District National Park Tours, Tickets, & Excursions

Treak Cliff Cavern is the only place where you can enjoy practical 'hands on' experience of crafting and working with Blue John Stone at its unique source. You spend time with our crafts people who will explain the tools and equipment you will use to help you create your very own necklace. You have access to skilled people in our on site work shop, doing what they do, using the mineral extracted from the mine you have just visited. This is a very unique opportunity that cannot be experienced anywhere else in the world.

Find out what Blue John Stone actually is at a place it is mined. On the guided tour of the cavern you will see the largest deposits of Blue John Stone in situ, and some of the finest stalactites in the Peak District. This is the only one of the Caverns at Castleton where you can have 'hands on' experience to work with the Blue John Stone, and make your own polished specimen of the rare mineral in our workshops with our craftspeople to help you. Learn about the geology of Treak Cliff Hill, why the mineral formed only here, and why it is so unique. Discover the 300 year old history of people mining and using Blue John Stone: see the collections and artifacts the owners have on display to tell their story. Browse the shop for unique Blue John Stone pieces produced on our site, direct from our mine.

Crypto Quests presents a new type of scavenger hunt game to be played via your mobile device. A spy Mission themed scavenger Quest around the historic village of Castleton, in the Peak District, Derbyshire, UK. With over 40 Challenges to complete and 8 locations to discover, this game is perfect for COVID social distancing activity for your household family.

The self-guided Audio on your own smartphone takes you on the Tour of the Cavern, and you can stop and start as you go along to answer the Rocks Trail quiz. You will see the Underground Wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites, rocks, minerals and fossils, and our beautifully unique Blue John Stone! With an App previously downloaded onto your Smartphone, you follow a marked route through the cavern, with the information delivered to your phone via Bluetooth beacons as you move along. Entry times and online booking limit slots to your group of 6 people (not counting those who are exempt or in your Support bubble), so you effectively have a socially distanced private tour, enabling you to focus on the stunning cave and the audio tour, and the Christmas lights and themes. The walking tour lasts around 1 hour and you can stop, take photographs and gaze at the rocks around you! The 'Polish your own Blue John Stone Activity' is available before or after your Cavern Tour.

This is a Self guided audio tour of Treak Cliff Cavern using your own Smartphone, with a Christmas seasonal twist combined with workshop time with our Craftsmen to make a Blue John Christmas decoration. The cavern is decorated with fairy lights, Christmas trees, and candles. Rocks and minerals from around the world are incorporated into the decorations to create even more Festive Feel. The Christmas Rocks Trail focuses on the decorations and the minerals as you take your journey through the Cavern. Underground you see the unique mineral Blue John Stone, found only here in Treak Cliff Hill. On your 50 minute audio tour see ancient fossils, rare minerals and the finest stalactites and stalagmites in the Peak District. In the workshop the crafts people help you select a slice of Blue John Stone from a variety of natural shapes and colours to create your Christmas decoration. Discover even more history of Blue John Stone and artefacts and the family who care for the Cavern in our museum,