{"id":821678,"date":"2026-07-23T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:42:10","slug":"national-trust-pokemon-go-summer-2026-events-gyms-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821678\/","title":{"rendered":"National Trust Pok\u00e9mon GO Summer 2026: Events, Gyms & Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once, aristocrats used their country houses as oh-so-refined bases for brutal hunting, shooting and fishing escapades. They\u2019d set off on horseback before dawn and return, braying triumphantly, with sackfuls of dead creatures, leaving unfortunate servants to scrub the blood from their tweed jackets. Thank goodness those grim days are over. Nowadays, more civilised generations of Britons can enjoy a much cleaner, more humane version of the thrill of the chase, by joining the addictive world of Pok\u00e9mon GO. And thanks to a collab with the National Trust<\/a>, the hit game is coming to some of the UK\u2019s most illustrious hunting grounds.<\/p>\n

A total of 140 National Trust locations up and down the country now have Pok\u00e9Stops and Gyms that bring the cartoon universe of Pok\u00e9mon to life. Existing Natty Trust trails and paths have now been transformed into in-game routes, there are special in-game events, and you can even find special National Trust Location Card backgrounds that commemorate where your Pok\u00e9mon was caught.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0new collab is hoping to get Trainers to prepare for Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s GO Summer Quest at National Trust properties, with events running across the first two weekends of August.<\/p>\n

Selected locations are also offering tons of extras over the long holidays, as part of National Trust\u2019s Summer of Play.\u00a0Twenty-seven sites including Dorset\u2019s Kingston Lacy, Cambridge\u2019s Anglesey Abbey, and Yorkshire\u2019s Fountains Abbey have dedicated Pok\u00e9mon zones, with mini games and hands-on activities. There are also Mega Evolution Trails, with fun sheets to fill out and interactive challenges to win.<\/p>\n

\"Pokemon
\nPhotograph: \u00a9National Trust Images\/James DobsonPokemon trail signs at Winkworth, May 2026 <\/p>\n

For anyone looking for a multi-stage adventure, there are five unique stickers to collect (Mega Dragonite, Mega Clefable, Mega Gengar, Mega Charizard Y and Pikachu) across different properties: bag them all and put them in your Pok\u00e9mon x National Trust sticker booklet and you\u2019ll be in with a chance to win a Pok\u00e9mon TCG Elite Trainer Box. And if digital Pok\u00e9mon just aren\u2019t enough for you, book an in-person meet-and-greet with a giant Pikachu at selected NT properties (but work fast, these are already shaping up to be seriously popular).<\/p>\n

\"Pikachu
\nPhotograph: \u00a9National Trust Images\/James DobsonPikachu at Nyman’s Garden, April 2026 <\/p>\n

This explosion of Pok\u00e9mon excitement is all designed to get younger audiences excited about National Trust properties: if learning about crenellations and ha-has sends kids to sleep, maybe the prospect of catching a Snorlax will wake them up. Check out the National Trust website for full details on the summer\u2019s teeming line-up. And then get hunting, safe in the knowledge that (unlike aristocrats in days gone by) any Pok\u00e9mon you catch will be friends, not food.<\/p>\n

Find a full list of National Trust properties\u00a0with Pok\u00e9mon attractions this summer here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Find more\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon-themed fun this summer at London’s Pokopia garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay in the loop:\u00a0sign up to our\u00a0free Time Out UK newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the latest UK news and the best stuff happening across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once, aristocrats used their country houses as oh-so-refined bases for brutal hunting, shooting and fishing escapades. They\u2019d set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[287603,49,48,16613,287602,16614,61,12270,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-821678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-audience-location-audience-united-kingdom","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-europe-united-kingdom","tag-news-city-life","tag-technology","tag-things-to-do","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}