St Catherine's Lighthouse

Enjoy a panoramic vista in an area of outstanding natural beauty. 

The Wight Walking Festival

The Isle of Wight has always been a popular destination with ramblers and hikers and is a dream destination for keen walkers. Here’s our top five reasons why you should attend the festival.

Isle of Wight Literary Festival

The Isle of Wight Literary Festival, sponsored by Red Funnel, is a wonderful opportunity for book-lovers of every genre to come together and celebrate the spoken and written word.

Dinosaur Isle, Sandown

Situation a stone’s throw from Sandown seafront, Dinosaur Isle is Britain's first purpose built dinosaur attraction. Built in 2001 with help from the Millennium grant commission, this modern building has been designed to be reminiscent of a flying Pterosaur.

Brading Roman Villa

A visit Brading Roman Villa, located on the outskirts of Brading village makes for an interesting day out for all the family.

Walk the Fort, St Helens & Bembridge

Once a year, on a summer day in August during the spring tide, a whisper will travel around the villages of Bembridge, St Helens and Seaview that the Fort Walk is on!

Ventnor Botanic Gardens

Ventnor Botanic Gardens are located in the unique microclimate of The Undercliff, and boasts a subtropical and exotic plant collection unrivalled elsewhere in the UK. Plants which would normally be found in protected glasshouses thrive and naturalise in geographical plantings based on the Mediterranean zones of the world.

Isle of Wight Fossil Hunting

The Isle of Wight may be a relatively small Island but when it comes to fossil collecting, it is widely regarded as the best hunting ground in Europe for dinosaur fossils!

Goodleaf Tree Climbing