Short answer: Truro's centre is flat, pedestrianised and genuinely pram-friendly — base the morning on Lemon Quay, where the roomy cafés, level access and facilities all cluster.
Most Cornish towns make you choose between charm and wheels — cobbles, hills, doorway steps. Truro is the exception: a flat, largely pedestrianised centre where pushing a pram is unremarkable rather than an expedition. If the usual coastal towns have been a fight, this is the recovery morning.
Space is the real currency with a pushchair, so mornings before half nine or after eleven beat the rush everywhere above.
This is where Truro earns the trip: Lemon Quay and the surrounding centre have the department-store tier of baby-change and lift access that beach towns simply don't, plus the Hall for Cornwall and the city's indoor shopping within a level push. You are never far from what a bad nappy moment requires.
Park at the Garras Wharf end (flat to the centre — avoid starting up at the top of town), breakfast on or near Lemon Quay, then push the level route past the cathedral — pram-accessible and free to wander — and back along the river path if the morning is dry. On farmers' market days Lemon Quay adds stalls to the same flat circuit.
Victoria Gardens is the one hill you might choose to climb — a small Victorian park worth it on a sunny morning — and the museum is the wet-weather extension. The Truro guide has the rest, kids filter on.
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