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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:

High Adventure Activities

• Asheville Treetops Adventure Park– largest WNC aerial challenge course in the trees with 77 unique climbing, rolling, and swinging elements in a wooded park with smart clips. It is Challenge by Choice! Seven 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.
• Kolo Bike Park– Mountain bike sampler-pack designed for all rider levels.
• 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.
• Tree Quest– 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.
• Whitewater Rafting at 2 locations close to Asheville – float trips to Class III & IV

Low Ropes Facilitated Team Building

Team Building Programs are custom-created 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.

Experiential Learning Programs: STEM/Environmental Education/Wilderness Skills

Our adventure activities pair perfectly with our outdoor environmental education programs! We have designed hands-on programs that can be tailored to cover your troops’s goals and standards. Our program staff has decades of education and experience in experiential education with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in the field. So we are excited to create an immersive learning experience for your scouts that encourages curiosity, teamwork, and fun!

Program options include: 

• Ready. Set. Go Physics!  Scouts will get to see the physics of zip lining and ropes courses up close and in action. Using small-scale models to show how gravity, weight, friction, and other forces affect the motion of zipliners, students will get to experiment in a controlled environment.  Add this to our Treetops Park or Ziplines so that scouts can experiment with and experience physics in action! 1-2 hours  
• Trees & Me Ecology gives scouts an inside look at plants, and how they interact with other living and nonliving things in their environment. This ecology-based class offers hands-on learning for scouts to get to know trees up close and personal through tree identification, decomposition exploration, and a guided sensory hike to experience nature among our 100 acres of property. 1-2 hours  
• Wilderness/Outdoor Survival Skills teaches scouts what is essential in a survival situation.  Whether it is learning to build a primitive shelter, how to build & start a fire using primitive materials, or what items are truly essential for an outdoor outing, students will have a blast working together to “survive” in the woods! While also learning about “Leave No Trace” principles, scouts will practice some essential outdoor ethics. 1-3 hours
• In our Lost & Found Orienteering program, scouts will learn how to use a topographic map and compass, then apply those skills to our orienteering course. Scouts then will work in small groups to navigate themselves to victory.  So with a little teamwork, they then go home with skills they can use in real life.  1-3 hours

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.