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
Team Bonding Group Cooperative Games
- Group Cooperative Games are custom-created fun and competitive experiences designed to instill confidence, cooperation, communication, and connection between group members. We offer a program full of team challenges that focus on working together. While completing their goal, they are engaged in high-excitement activities that require them to think outside of the box. Packed with fun, your group will be challenged while laughing, joking, and having a ball!
Experiential Learning Programs: STEM/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:
- Zipline-polooza! Students will experiment with how gravity, weight, friction, and other forces affect the motion of zipliners by building a small-scale model. Working in small groups, students will create their own design and then compete with other groups to see who can create the fastest zipline while keeping safety in mind. Add this to our Treetops Park or Ziplines so that students can experiment with and experience physics in action! 1-2 hours, $10/hour/person, Min grade 5th grade, NC & SC standards: NC 5.P.1, 7.P.1, 7.P.2, Psc.1.1, Phy.1.1, Phy.1.2; SC 4.S.1, 5.P.5, 6.P.3, 8.P.2, 8.P.3, H.P.2, H.P.3
- Wilderness/Outdoor Survival Skills teach students 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, students will practice some essential outdoor ethics. 1-2 hours, $10/hour/person, Min grade 2nd grade
- In our Lost & Found Orienteering program, students will learn how to use a topographic map and compass, then apply those skills to our orienteering course. Students 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. 1-2 hours, $10/hour/person, Min grade 5th grade
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.
