Known as the southern gateway to the Norfolk Broads, with one of the finest yachting lakes in Britain, Oulton Broad is the place where people who love all kinds of water sports go
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There is a wide variety of activities including windsurfing, rowing, sailing with amusement guaranteed for the whole family. Summer evenings see power boat racing on these waters. 
Its a lively place with lots of shops, restaurants and pubs. There are tennis courts, a putting green, children's playground, boating lake and open-air swimming pool.  Or why not take a boat trip around the broad. 
Oulton Broad runs into Lake Lothing which divides the town in to two halves linked by a bascule bridge (type of bridge with a section which can be raised and lowered using counterweights) which is used to admit boats to the main port.
There is a museum situated in Broad House which has over one thousand years of local and domestic history with fossils, medieval artefacts and Lowestoft Porcelain

There is a regular train service from Oulton Broad North station to Norwich and Ipswich.
Oulton Broad has more than 100 acres of grazing marsh, nearby Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve is a haven for many different species of wildlife, plants and insects. The year 1956 saw Sir Christopher Cockerell try out the world's first working hovercraft model on Oulton Broad.