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Adventure Parks & High Ropes in Derby
If your kids are itching to climb something, Derby has options right in the city. The Climbing Unit Ltd is just off the centre, from £9.50, with bouldering walls graded for ability and mats instead of ropes for younger climbers. Mundy Play Centre is free and has a proper ropes course, mini golf and a BMX bowl, and Chaddesden Park adds a BMX track and water play with a café that shuts mid-afternoon. For bigger rope courses, it's a drive out to Moira for Conkers Vertigo (from £5, ages 8+, 30ft up) or Matlock Bath for Heights of Abraham, where a cable car and cavern tours lead up to a hilltop park. For toddlers, Mundy and Chaddesden cost nothing beyond your time. Older kids who want height and speed should look further out, to Sherwood Pines or Cannock Chase for Go Ape, both from £20.95, or a longer trip to Leicester for the aerial trekking at LOPC, bookable from age 8. Mount Cook Adventure Centre near Matlock suits six to elevens who fancy a quarry Via Ferrata. Everything here is outdoor, so check the weather before you set off.
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from £8Adventures at Mill Waters
Sutton-in-Ashfield · ages 3+
Nets, treehouses, a high ropes trek and a 100m zip line by the water, from age 3 upwards.
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FreeChaddesden Park
Derby · ages 0-99
Free park with a BMX track, water play and football pitches, plus a café that shuts mid-afternoon.
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from £7.25Conkers Discovery Centre
Moira · ages 3+
A big woodland day out with rope trails, a splash park, a barefoot walk and an indoor play house for the rainy bits.
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from £5Conkers Vertigo High Ropes
Moira · ages 8+
A high ropes course roughly 30ft up, plus zip wire, climbing wall and free-fall descender for kids eight and over.
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from £27.50Drayton Manor Hotel
Tamworth
A theme park day of rides, a zoo and Thomas Land, with the option of staying over at the hotel next door.
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from £20.95Go Ape Cannock Chase
Rugeley
Treetop rope courses and zip lines through Cannock Chase forest, with a bouncy net course thrown in.
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from £22.95Go Ape Sherwood - Nets Adventure
Mansfield · ages 3-11
Treetop nets, giant slides and bouncy platforms for younger climbers, with a day pass that lets you come and go.
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from £20.95Go Ape Sherwood Pines
Kings Clipstone · ages 1+
High ropes, zip lines and giant suspended nets through the pines at Sherwood, with courses sorted by age and height.
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from £16Heights of Abraham
Matlock Bath · ages 4-15
A cable car ride over the valley, two cavern tours underground, then a hilltop park of play areas and views.
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LOPC Aerial Trekking (Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre)
Leicester · ages 8+
Bookable high ropes and Powerfan at Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre - upper and lower courses from age 8.
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Mount Cook Adventure Centre
Matlock · ages 6-11
A residential adventure centre near Matlock where kids climb a 40ft ropes tower, try Via Ferrata on a real quarry face and build rafts.
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FreeMundy Play Centre
Derby · up to age 12
A free outdoor play park in Derby with a proper ropes course, mini golf, BMX bowl and a paddling pool in summer.
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from £13National Water Sports Centre (Holme Pierrepont Country Park)
Nottingham · ages 1+
Two heights of rope course over the water sports lake, plus mini golf and a free play park to fill the rest of the day.
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FreePooley Country Park
Tamworth
Free woodland park with a balance trail, a clue-hunt walk and soft play upstairs in the café, for the cost of parking.
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from £9.50The Climbing Unit Ltd
Derby · ages 5+
Bouldering walls graded for different abilities, with mats instead of ropes and harnesses for younger climbers to get stuck into.
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Good to know: adventure parks & high ropes in Derby
Are any of them free?
Yes, Chaddesden Park, Mundy Play Centre and Pooley Country Park are free to visit.
What does a paid visit cost?
Paid entry starts from £5 at Conkers Vertigo High Ropes. Prices, ages and facilities are listed on every place page, taken from each venue's own published price list.
Whereabouts are they?
You'll find adventure parks & high ropes in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Derby, Moira, Tamworth, Rugeley and 6 more. Every place we list is in or around Derby, and each listing has the full address and directions.
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