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Scottish Industrial Railway Centre
Celebrating "pugs", the stubby steam and diesel locomotives that for decades chugged up and down factory and colliery sidings. And you can even have one pull you along in the brake van. No, not very far.
The Scottish Industrial Railway Centre is now the Doon Valley Railway which is an industrial heritage railway operated by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group (ARPG).
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Burns Heritage Park
This is the only ticketed area of the Heritage Park, the thatched cottage where Burns was born and lived until he was 7, plus adjacent museum.
Small museum and gallery in an Adam-style mansion of 1760. It was built for Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill, who got rich from slavery and sugar on his Jamaica plantations, and the name derives from his La Rochelle estate there. It was rebuilt in the 1830s; the family fortunes waxed then waned, and the mansion was gifted to the town in 1968. The surrounding park and woodland is accessible 24 hours.
Botanical garden and conservatory. The Victorian original was replaced in 1955 to the same design; this fell derelict in 2005 but was restored in 2010.
18th-century Palladian mansion with extensive collection of Chippendale furniture, and grounds. It's owned by a charity founded by Charles III. In Sep 2022 he was in residence here when he learned of his mother Queen Elizabeth's serious condition, and was helicoptered to Balmoral where she died that day.
White tees 6446 yards, par 71, with the smaller Seafield course at 5429 yards, par 67.