York Urban Adventures
Urban adventures bringing the secrets of York to life.
- Work together to solve fun challenges & puzzling clues Perfectly balanced & location-based.
- Guided by clues sent to your phones Messages sent to you and your team's phones.
- Explore York's historic landmarks and hidden gems Our speciality, discovering and showing off amazing places!
- Discover top-rated pubs, bars and cafes - all optional Optional breaks to catch a rest along the way.
- Compete Set the fastest time and see you ranking on your end certificate. for top spot on the York leaderboard
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Next Steps
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- 1. Select your game, pick a trail of your choice and receive your welcome email.
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- 2. Rally your team and enter a team name and phone number(s) into the system.
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- 3. Receive your welcome text, then head to the start location on a day and time of your choice.
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- 4. Text START to receive the first in a series of cryptic directions. Solve the puzzles to unravel your mystery.
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- 5. Discover unique places, the secret and hidden of your city - and great independant pubs/cafes!
Gift an Experience
Choose from over 125 top-rated experiences across 40 cities, or choose a gift balance for ultimate flexibility. We're happy to switch should your recipient wish to change!
York Experiences
Each trail takes place in a different area of the city - click each tile to learn more!
The Drowned City
Magic, monsters and a Roman Emperor, a tale of deception in Ancient York… more
A Fatal Feud
Murder in York. Can you get to the bottom of our classic whodunnit?… more
Ghosts of York
Restless spirits. Conniving clues. Haunting histories.… more
change the date, time, number of people or game.
Quirks and Snickets
The secrets York hides in plain sight… more
Action-packed Urban Adventures in York
How the York days out work
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Discover York's secret places
- Experience York's unique places and share stories in independent pubs & cafes, curated for each York Urban Adventure.
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Fun challenges
- Engaging puzzles and captivating stories reveal York in a new light.
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Play together or competitively
- Work as a team or compete head-to-head to set the fastest time on our York leaderboard.
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Fully flexible bookings
- Alter your booking freely; change the date, time, number of people or chosen York Urban Adventure. Even stop and start once you've begun.
Fun activity for all groups
York Urban Adventure Sights
York Urban Adventure Reviews
The great things you say about CityDays Urban Adventures
BirchScar
Such a cool experience, letting us really learn the city. Gave us a ton of steps, and introduced us to the best place t…
The gals
Very good day, went to places we never knew existed, and amazing food!
UC
fascinating and scenic walk away from the main drag with great pubs for breaks. Great to explore a lesser known part o…
Big Bois
This was such an enjoyable experience, it felt like we were doing the amazing race!
Vagrants
Had a great time all round Whitechapel, trying to work out who Jack the Ripper was. These days out are a great way to s…
Cousin Crew
Thoroughly enjoyed our family day out. We learnt so much about our beautiful city.
HonkerVille
Had a great time solving some at times tricky clues and finding some hidden gems
Souper Nerdz 🤓
So much fun! Really interesting trail, educational and fun! Would definitely do one of these again! :)
Kiscons
Whole thing was amazing - we thoroughly enjoyed it - some clues were tough but we managed to crack them - definitely lo…
Team Starlight.
We had a great time following the clues and exploring London! Thanks very much, we’d thoroughly recommend it 👍
estrogen hunters
honestly we had a blast and this has quickly become my favourite outing in sydney im so fr, my friend and i are obsesse…
The Kayakers
Great trail, lots of fun, and learned something too!
THE GAYS
It was great! Helped us appreciate our city with all the nooks and crannies and alleyways. We really enjoyed the walk f…
Half 10
Fantastic day learning more about our home city and the rain actually made it more enjoyable with plenty of laughs
Detectives PeekAtChu
Fun day out exploring g the city!
ZweiMausensundOtto
Nice, it was so much fun. We would absolutely do it again.
AussieDane
We loved the day, but we flagged a bit as it got hotter and the day wore on (we did do a bit of shopping in there, so …
Birthday Puzzlers
Well considered clues that weren't too difficult but still challenging - with smatterings of humour.Introduced to new i…
Misfits
OMG! What a brilliant day. We saw parts of London we hadn't seen and learnt information about Jack the Ripper we didn't…
Team PR
We live close to London so are regular visitors. With our children we wanted something different as we had done most th…
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