Bug Hunt
The Highfield Park Trust Bug Hunt is a fun event, aimed at younger children. It normally takes place during October half-term. There is no need to book in advance, but there is a charge per child. This is payable on arrival at the Visitor Centre, from where the event starts and finishes.
Each child will get a quiz sheet which contains questions relating to the specific insects and mini-beasts that the children are looking for. They are painted on a series of colourful, wooden plaques or on laminated sheets but hidden from direct view. The Trust endeavours to change the questions and format slightly every year, in order to keep the event as fresh as possible. Sometimes the questions are directly related to the insect, other times the questions could be more tenuous. Either way, the children will just love being outside, looking for the clues and answering the questions.
Once all the wooden insects have been found and the questions successfully answered, they are returned to the Highfield Park Trust team at the Visitor Centre. The answers are quickly checked, generous praise given and a worthy prize awarded to the intrepid young hunters.
The event is run from the Visitor Centre, which has a large, free car park for attendees to use, but this is a popular event and parking may be limited.
The car park grid reference: TL17160611.
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Travelling by road
Visitors from outside the area are most likely to approach the Park from the M25 motorway. Exit via Junction 22 (London Colney exit) and follow the signs for St Albans along the A1081 to the A414 roundabout. Continue to follow the A1081 signs into St Albans and at the next roundabout turn right into Highfield Park Drive. Continue straight on at the next roundabout (note the “Welcome to Highfield Park” sign), the road then bears to the left and becomes Highfield Lane. For the Highfield Park Visitor Centre turn left at the next mini roundabout on to Hill End Lane. The entrance to the park is on the left (wooden field gate and signage) opposite the end of Frobisher Road. Follow the road round into the car park.
