Go Ape to launch seven courses in 2010
The UK’s biggest treetop adventure activity, Go Ape High Wire Forest Adventure, is to launch seven new treetop adventure courses across the country in March 2010, bringing the total of Go Ape courses in the country to twenty-nine.
Go Ape was named Small to Medium Size Business of the Year at The National Business Awards 2009, sponsored by Orange.These are exciting times for a company that has grown to become a national phenomenon since its conception seven years ago.
Confirmed to date are two courses in Wales at Pembrey Country Park in Carmarthenshire and Coed y Brenin Forest Park near Dolgellau, which come after the launch of the first course launch in Wales earlier year at Margam Country Park near Port Talbot. Scotland will see its second Go Ape course at Beecraigs Country Park in West Lothian following the successful course at Aberfoyle. Launching also will be the Go Ape course at Black Park Country Park near Slough. International expansion plans are underway in both Australia and America. With this year’s revenue up year-on-year by 20% to £10.1 million and visitor numbers up by 16%, to 512,000, Go Ape is on target to open 40 courses by 2012, and 80 worldwide by 2015.
Go Ape is a giant obstacle course set high up in the treetops. Gorillas and Baboons alike get to spend approximately three hours monkeying around high up in the canopy, some 40ft above the forest floor. Before setting off on a Go Ape treetop trek, adventurers are kitted out with harnesses, pulleys and carabiners and given a safety briefing before let loose into the forest canopy. The course has five separate sections and each section is made up of obstacles such as rope ladders, walkways, bridges and wooden tunnels. Each section begins with a rope ladder climb into the treetops and ends with an adrenalin pumping zip back down to the ground.
www.goape.co.uk
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