Manchester Airport 45 min
Singing Ringing Tree (10 min)
This futuristic art installation made of steel pipes makes sounds as the wind passes through it. Heaton Park (26 min)
Urban park with a championship golf course for grown-ups, farm animals and play areas for kids. The Fusilier Museum (22 min)
Archive material, weapons and interactive displays trace the history of the regiment over 300 years. Healey Dell Nature Reserve (20 min) Smithills Hall (35 min)
One of Bolton's original family homes, with elements from different eras, set in formal gardens. Hollingworth Lake (37 min)
130-acre recreational lake for swimming, boating & fishing, with an educational visitor center. Peel Tower (22 min) East Lancs Railway (22 min) Top Withins (52 min)
Historic, isolated farmhouse said to have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Towneley Hall. (18 min)
Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art, local history, furniture and pottery in a stately home museum. Hardcastle Crags (35 min)
Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Pendle Hill (42 min)
Rising 557 m. above sea level, this famous hill features a Bronze Age burial site & paragliding. Bury Market (20 min)
Long-running market with a large hall & outdoor stalls selling groceries, clothing & assorted goods. Winter Hill (1 hr)
This 1,496-ft.-high hill with sweeping views, burial mounds, cairns & the Scotsman's Stump memorial. National Trust - Gawthorpe Hall (26 min)
Elizabethan house with Victorian makeover and Brontë links houses portrait and textile collections. | 
