The St Albans Text Trail is a fun and unique way to discover new parts of the city centre and appreciate the finer details in a way like never before. Equally suitable for residents of St Albans aswell as visitors to the area - there won't necessarily be a benefit or a disavantage of being local!
St Albans
The route covers the main High Street and many of the surrounding areas, allowing you to discover new places and to absorb St Alban's fascinating history in a fun and engaging way.
Difficulty: Hard
Length: 2 hours / 3km / 23 questions
Style: treasure hunt Q&A, all text message based
Perfect for: all ages - adults and children alike. Children aged 6-10 will be able to complete many of these questions, but will probably need help working out the odd one here or there. Equally, an adult-only group will find this fun and challenging.
The route does require a good amount of walking (and a couple of hills) so be prepared to be active on your feet! If you'd rather walk a little less then a shorter option in St Albans is available.
When you order you will receive a link to a downloadable Welcome Pack. This pack includes your unique joining code - you will need this on the day so keep it safe.
Read your Welcome Pack carefully - it includes details on your starting location and useful tips which will help you on the day. These might just make the difference between to you getting 1st on the leaderboard!
IMPORTANT: please be aware there is currently an event running on the ground of St Albans abbey which may block your access to one clue. You can use the photo gallery on this product to help you answer it.
- We picked a cold, windy Market Day for our trek around St Albans town centre, but a nice use of an otherwise lazy day.
We definitely got our exercise in with lots of walking up and down the St Albans hills, and got to discover the whole high street and its history.
We've walked the highstreet hundreds of times, and have even done a trail around and nearby the museum, but were still surprised to see lots of new blue plaques, noticeboards and carvings we hadn't spotted before.
A fantastic way to rediscover your city.
Elyssa, official Google review (Feb 2022) - A fantastic walk, an amazing adventure. We learnt so much. We chose the worst day to do it, it rained and rained and rained! But we laughed and walked around with our heads up noticing so many things which tbh would have just passed us by! My favourite feature was the arrowhead, who knew! And the fish man got us….!! We just couldn’t find it!!
We chose to do this as a date day, I highly recommend it, however I can totally see doing it with my family too, young children. Excited to find the answers. Very good value for money.
Sarah, official Google review (Feb 2022)
- We picked a cold, windy Market Day for our trek around St Albans town centre, but a nice use of an otherwise lazy day.
