Water Park Activities

Water Park Lakeland Adventure Centre provides a safe environment, with highly qualified staff, where young people can participate in a variety of activities that meet their needs and experience.

 

Below are some of the exciting activities that can take place with groups and individuals:

Outdoor Activities

  • Mountain day - a straight forward walk up a peak, or a multi peak day involving a scramble up steep ground or a mountain stream
  • Canoeing - 2/3 person open boats, which are ideal for journeying in
  • Journey day - a combination of walking, canoeing and sailing
  • Sailing - A journey down the lake to Coniston for lunch in single-handers or on our catamarans
  • Kayaking - one person or double bladed paddle sessions
  • Windsurfing - for both primary and secondary groups during the period May - September.  Outside of these months the water tends to be too cold for most clients
  • Climbing - small climbing wall on site for introductory sessions
  • Ghyll scramble - follow a mountain stream, climbing up and down waterfalls
  • Orienteering - outside to our course around the Water Park grounds or in more challenging local forests
  • Raft building - constructed from barrels and logs

Problem Solving and Initiative Exercises

  • First aid training - fun practical session on basic first aid skills, can include resuscitation practice
  • Initiative exercises - a whole variety of exercises from indoor to outdoor. We have a variety of stand alone sites for specific initiative exercises in the grounds
  • Low ropes course - a variety of low ropes elements designed to enhance team work and individual problem solving skills
  • Jacobs ladder - a challenge which involves a team climbing a suspended ladder of logs 15 metres high
  • Crate Build - two people are challenged to build the tallest tower using beer crates the aim is to get a team member stood on top of the tower
  • Pampas Pole - the challenge is to get 4 people at the same time stood on top of an 8 metre high telegraph pole
  • Abseil Tree - is a 20m high challenge for you to climb up & then abseil back down
  • Peter Pan - involves the rest of your group working as a team to haul you up into the tree tops

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