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The Adventure Center is the best outdoor experiential adventure for activities that cultivate leadership skills, team building, and character development! We create exciting and competitive experiences designed to instill confidence, cooperation, communication, and connection between group members by offering:

• Asheville Treetops Adventure Park – largest WNC aerial challenge course in the trees with 70 unique climbing, rolling, and swinging elements in a wooded park with smart clips. It is Challenge by Choice! Aerial trails range from Beginner to Intermediate.  Watch your group step out of their comfort zone to complete a challenge while encouraging each other to create a team bonding atmosphere.
• Team Building Low Ropes Facilitated Programs - We create custom fun and competitive experiences designed to instill confidence, cooperation, communication, and connection between group members. Our facilitated programs with experienced instructors focus on active interactions designed for guests to step outside of typical comfort zones. We highlight the potential strengths of task completion and the challenges of processes such as communication, group decision making, and task sharing/delegation. Our programs are fun, engaging, challenging, sometimes frustrating, thought provoking, and personally enlightening. Whether you want to spend 1 hour playing fun team bonding games to get your team communicating or a half or full day of facilitated programs, we can create the team building experience you are looking for.
• NC & SC Curriculum Programs - curriculum based programs that can be paired with an adventure activity or team building to complete your day!
• Asheville Zipline Canopy Adventures - urban canopy tour with 11 ziplines & 3 sky bridges in treetop platforms on adventure towers with views of downtown. A great course for groups with an extensive ground school.
• TreeQuest - Recreational tree climbing on a large oak tree. Guests use specialized gear and techniques to climb on one of our stately oak trees using a rope without negatively affecting the tree. Climbers “inch worm” their way up one of our eight climbs that range in height. TreeQuest allows guests to enjoy an adventure activity in a controlled situation so that they can focus on the thrill of the activity and experience the environment they are in.
• Kolo Bike Park - Mountain bike sampler-pack designed for all rider levels.
• Whitewater Rafting at 2 locations close to Asheville - float trips to Class III & IV

Our activities instill personal development and self-confidence, encourage cooperation with others, enrich problem solving skills, and offer fun with a challenge.  While expanding your comfort zone, each person is supporting and planning with others in the team, developing positive relationships, building trust and inspiring positive changes.

Nowhere in Asheville are there so many different outdoor activities in one place that offer personal growth and discovery. Guests are encouraged to expand their personal comfort zones, increase their self-confidence, and support others challenged to do the same. We offer opportunities to move from good to great friends, team members, or leaders as guests literally climb to new heights!

The Adventure Center is the best outdoor experiential field trip for:

• listening to instructions then applying what you have learned
• using small motor skills, as well as incorporating physical fitness balance and strength
• personal development, self-confidence
• cooperation with others, becoming a team member
• stepping out of your comfort zone in a controlled environment
• team bonding including encouragement and help for others, communication, support and leadership, and connection with others
• decision making based on completion of challenge element
• problem solving skills leading to accomplishment
• a fun outdoor activity with a challenge

Your group outing can be:

• an experiential field trip
• include math or science educational options (properties of objects, forces and motion)
• a beginning-of-the year teambuilding activity
• an end-of-the-year incentive
• sports team or club teambuilding outing (ROTC, Band, Student Government)
• grade level field trip
• staff teambuilding days
• performance/music groups visiting the area

What we offer:

• a discounted rate for groups of 10 people or more
• escorts and/or monitors required depending on age and activity
• bring your own meals or snacks
• pre-visit tips for preparing your class for their adventure
• performance area if requested
• complimentary teacher access
• free bus parking

The Adventure Center Difference

At the Adventure Center we focus on the optimal guest experience in every activity we offer.

• college graduate facilitators/team-members with outdoor education degrees
• challenging initiatives in an outdoor setting
• variety of group activities and team challenges offered in one place
• state-of-the-art clipping systems at our Treetops Park
• group start at all of our activities instead of waiting for one person to do an element
• full body harness and helmets at our adventure activities
• detailed ground school at each aerial adventure activity