Also on Park during August will be weekly Storyteller sessions with a narrator who will take you on walks through the evenings tell tales of heroes and horrors.

Self-Catering Holidays from £557

Glamping Holidays from £375

Touring Pitches from £38 per pitch per night

Book online or call the park direct to book a Summer Break today!

TERMS:
Self-Catering School Summer Holidays from £557 is based on up to 6 people sharing Original 2 bedroom accommodation for 7nt Holidays (Fri-Fri) commencing 23 August 2013. Glamping holidays from £375 is based on Ready Tent Glamping accommodation, sleeps up to 4 people for 7 night Holidays (Fri-Fri) commencing 23 August 2013. Touring Pitches from £38 per pitch per night is based on 2 adults, 2 children 1 car on a Standard pitch with hook-up on arrival dates between 27 July – 30 August 2013. Additional children, car’s & dogs are charged as extra.

The amazing Lost Gardens of Heligan is a pioneering project to bring back the former glories of Victorian Productive Gardens, formal Pleasure Gardens and a sub-tropical Jungle that were once the pride of this mysterious Cornish estate.

The 200-acre gardens reaches their glorious peak at the end of the 19th century, but only a few years later were left to decline and grow over, with impenetrable brambles and gorse taking hold.

Yet the discovery of a tiny room that once played host to the men and women who tended the gardens with such dedication fired the imagination of a new group who made it their mission to restore the Lost Gardens and tell the stories of those who first made the gardens great.

Today, we can see how the gardens once met almost all the needs of the Tremayne family who owned the estate. The productive gardens have more than 200 varieties of fruit, vegetable, salad and herbs; the Pleasure Grounds are filled with romantic structures and unexpected features, while the luxuriant jungle foliage features exotic plantings and inspiring views, with a raised boardwalk snaking across ponds, past banana plantations and through tunnels of towering bamboo.

More information at: www.heligan.com

Tell us about your Cornwall Adventures by adding a comment or tweeting #50Adventures. We’d love to see your Adventurer’s pictures, why not post them on our Facebook Page – one drawn at random will win a holiday in 2014*.

* one entrant selected on 31 October 2013 will win a 3 or 4 night short break to be taken any time in 2014, outside of school holiday periods. Standard holiday home for up to six people included. No cash alternative, judge’s decision is final.

Breaks start from only £249.

HURRY! – May Bank Holiday is filling up fast so Book Now!

TERMS:
£249 price is based on Original 2 bedroom accommodation for up to 6 people sharing, commencing Monday 3rd June 2013 for a 4 night break.

Quote offer code TTOUR20

Book your stay by midnight 30th June 2013.
Arrival dates: 31st May – 30th June 2013 inclusive.

TERMS:
Price example is per night, based on 2 adults, 1 car on a Standard pitch with hook up for arrivals between 31 May – 21 June 2013 after 20% discount has been applied. This offer applies to all pitch types and is subject to availability. Discount cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. New bookings only.

Quote offer code FPJUNE

Book your stay by midnight 30th June.
Arrival dates : 01 June – 30 June inclusive.

TERMS:
Dog Friendly units only. Applicable on brochure price bookings only, max 2 free dogs per booking, cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. New bookings only

• Mon-Friday 4 night mid-week breaks between Mon 3rd June – 30 June 2013 inclusive – SAVE £30
• 7 night (Fri-Fri) or (Sat-Sat) holidays between Saturday 1st June – 30 June 2013 inclusive – SAVE £70

Short Breaks – Quote offer code TCJUNE30
7 night breaks – Quote offer code TCJUNE70

TERMS:
Applies to all grades of accommodation, subject to availability. Savings cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. New bookings only

Where: Helston (26 miles from Trevella Park)

Poldark Mine is the only complete underground tin mine open to the public in the south west, and one of the most atmospheric ways of uncovering Cornwall’s mining past.

The mine was worked from the medieval period to the 1780s and still contains much of its original character. A mine tour investigates the early history and conditions faced by the miners, who included children as young as seven.

There’s also a ghost tour that includes the spooky story of Cornwall’s Knockers – small spirits with large hooked noses who haunted the mines.

Visitors can enjoy fascinating craft workshops which demonstrate traditional skills such as woodturning and candle making, or pan for real alluvial gold and search for precious gemstones in the gemsands.

Tell us about your Cornwall Adventures by adding a comment or tweeting #50Adventures. We’d love to see your Adventurer’s pictures, why not post them on our Facebook Page – one drawn at random will win a holiday in 2014*.

* one entrant selected on 31 October 2013 will win a 3 or 4 night short break to be taken any time in 2014, outside of school holiday periods. Standard holiday home for up to six people included. No cash alternative, judge’s decision is final.

Where: St Austell (18 miles from Trevella Park)

The Cornwall coast is the resting place of more than 3,000 ships, with artefacts from 150 wrecks available to discover and explore at the Charlestown Shipwreck Centre, the largest museum of its type in Europe.

Relics on display include treasures, everyday objects, correspondence and photos from ships sunk during World Wars and from older boats that came to a bitter end along the coastline. The displays tell the stories of many fascinating encounters across hundreds of years of history.

The centre has the largest underwater diving equipment collection in the country, with various diving suits used for treasure seeking and naval purposes.

There is also viewing gallery above St Austell port and dock where there is often an assortment of boats, including square riggers which are resplendent when fully rigged. Kids can play with remote controlled boats in a mini version of the port.

Tell us about your Cornwall Adventures by adding a comment or tweeting #50Adventures. We’d love to see your Adventurer’s pictures, why not post them on our Facebook Page – one drawn at random will win a holiday in 2014*.

* one entrant selected on 31 October 2013 will win a 3 or 4 night short break to be taken any time in 2014, outside of school holiday periods. Standard holiday home for up to six people included. No cash alternative, judge’s decision is final.

Where: Kestle Mill, near Newquay (3 miles from Trevella Park)

Pay a visit to Trerice Manor, one of the most famous haunted homes in Cornwall.

The spooky story goes that the original 16th century owner Lord Arundell, nicknamed the ‘wicked lord’ in neighbouring villages, discarded a servant girl when he discovered he had made her pregnant. She committed suicide and returned to haunt the house, leaving behind a distinctive smell of lilac after visits.

In the 19th century the north wing of the old house was pulled down because the owners were too scared to live in it, and the remaining personal possessions of Arundell were burnt.

However it seems that didn’t halt the hauntings. During works in the 1980s builders reported doors opening by themselves and the sound of long skirts swishing along the floorboards!

Today the property is owned by the National Trust and Trerice remains little-changed from the days of its early owners.

Tell us about your Cornwall Adventures by adding a comment or tweeting #50Adventures. We’d love to see your Adventurer’s pictures, why not post them on our Facebook Page – one drawn at random will win a holiday in 2014*.

* one entrant selected on 31 October 2013 will win a 3 or 4 night short break to be taken any time in 2014, outside of school holiday periods. Standard holiday home for up to six people included. No cash alternative, judge’s decision is final.

Where: Penhale Sands (6 miles from Trevella Park)

Discover the eight-foot high St Piran’s Cross, which is hidden among the dunes of Penhale Sands and commemorates one of Cornwall’s patron saints.

The cross dates back to the sixth century and is the oldest recorded stone cross in Cornwall.

Legend has it that St Piran was cast into the stormy sea by Irish heathens with a millstone round his neck, but as soon as he hit the water the storm calmed and he floated from Ireland to Cornwall, where he founded an abbey and continued his holy life of healing.

One day St Piran is said to have built himself a fireplace from a large black hearthstone and as his first fire roared a trickle of white metal oozed from the stone in the shape of a cross – his discovery was tin and the local population capitalised to develop one of Cornwall’s most successful industries.

St Piran became the patron saint of miners and the white trickle of metal he discovered became the white cross that features against a black background on the Cornish flag.

Tell us about your Cornwall Adventures by adding a comment or tweeting #50Adventures. We’d love to see your Adventurer’s pictures, why not post them on our Facebook Page – one drawn at random will win a holiday in 2014*.

* one entrant selected on 31 October 2013 will win a 3 or 4 night short break to be taken any time in 2014, outside of school holiday periods. Standard holiday home for up to six people included. No cash alternative, judge’s decision is final.