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Photo: Gordon McKinlay, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Part of National Museums of Scotland, with museum, farmhouse and working farm. Open all year but wear wellies and other outdoor gear, and don't bring a dog. Your ticket is valid for a year.
The National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and Carmunnock in Glasgow. It is run by National Museums Scotland.
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This community-maintained stretch of urban forest winds its way between industrial sites, up and over a manmade hill, and is known for its annual Halloween party.
On Stewartfield Way north of town, this park surrounds a 16-acre loch, and has a watersports centre, adventure playgrounds and cafe.
50-m swimming pool with flumes and sauna. The building, opened in 1968 (pictured at head of this page) resembles Darth Vader surfacing.
The tallest point in East Kilbride and former site of Lickprivick Castle, marked by an OS trig point and offering views over the residential areas of the town.
Bizarre artificial salt rooms built by a Slovak family inside this educational building, each equipped with a halogenerator.
Pottery studio with a kids soft play, ceramics classes, lunches and hot drinks.