Prince Charles opens nature-based children's adventure playground on his Dumfries House estate - Daily Mail

And that’s just what Prince Charles has done with the centrepiece of a new nature-based adventure park in Scotland.

The royal, pictured with local children from nearby Muirkirk Primary School, was said to have enjoyed watching the youngsters explore the park at the opening.

The rustic wooden playground features elevated rope bridges, a netting tunnel, two side-by-side racing slides and a tube slide (pictured).

Commissioned by Charles’ charitable organisation The Prince’s Foundation, the park is designed to encourage children to immerse themselves in nature, boosting their physical wellbeing and mental health in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Prince of Wales with pupils from Muirkirk Primary School, in a nature-based children's adventure playpark .

Gordon Neil, executive director of The Prince’s Foundation, said: ‘The work of The Prince’s Foundation is inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales’s philosophy of harmony: that by understanding the balance, the order and the relationships between ourselves and the natural world we can create a more sustainable future?

The duchess also opened a children's playground at RHS Wisley in Surrey, inspired by her garden, featuring a rope swing, tepee hideaway and a tree house

The prince led a consortium of charities and the Scottish Government to save Dumfries House ‘for the nation’ with a last-ditch £45million purchase in 2007, with his own charitable foundation contributing £20million

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