Go Ape at Whinlatter Forest

Location : Cockermouth / Keswick / Braithwaite / Lorton

Go Ape! Whinlatter offers an exciting adventure course including rope bridges, tarzan swings and zip slides up to 40 feet up in the trees.

Customers are fitted with a climbing harness, given instructions and then trek from tree to tree high above the forest floor.

Whinlatter Forest Park is England’s only true mountain forest. Rising to 790 metres above sea level it offers spectacular views of the Lake District and into Scotland.

The highest Go Ape course in the country, at 360 metres above sea level. Get a thrill from riding a zip slide through skies, over water and through England’s only true mountain forest.

Located in the North Lakes and home to Bassenthwaite ospreys, this is Go Ape at its most untamed. You can book your adventure in the trees online here.

Highest point: Site 5 Zip Wire 14.5m
Longest Zip Wire: Site 3 Zip Wire 89m
Longest crossing: Rail Tracks (site 3) 24m
Total length of all crossings: 601m
Number of crossings: 39
Number of sections: 5