The best UK zip wires

Go Ape across the UK

With 34 locations across the UK, Go Ape is your answer to that search, ‘zipwires near me.’ If you’ve never been before, now is the moment to discover it for yourself. As well as the amazing zip wire experience, there’s a whole world of tree top adventures for all the family to enjoy. They are also conveniently located close to most of our family/pet friendly forest hot tub cabin locations, so they make a great day out on your holiday. Scale treetop courses and be brought back down to the forest floor each time with a zip wire. There is something for everyone from young explorers experiencing their first free flying adventure on a 50m zip to thrill seekers who would think nothing of flying through the air over a valley on a 450m zip wire.

Zip World in Snowdonia

For zip wires in North Wales, nothing competes with Zip World which has three locations in Snowdonia. At Zip World Slate Caverns in Blaenau Ffestiniog, sit back on Titan, the largest zip zone in the world. When you get your wobbly legs back, go underground for Bounce Below, a trampoline experience like no other.

At Zip World Penrhyn Slate Quarry, try Big Red. At 270ft, it’s the largest mobile zip wire in the world, and guaranteed to get your pulse racing. Zip World has one more zip wire in North Wales at Zip World Fforest near Bettws y Coed. Here you can try Zip Safari, which takes you on a zip wire journey through the trees.

For your adventure on a zip wire in North Wales, stay in one of our forest cabins at Beddgelert, which is just half an hour’s drive from Zip World Slate Caverns. Or you can make a day of it and catch the steam train, which stops at our cabin location and takes you up to Blaenau.

Adrenalin Quarry in Cornwall

It’s not the longest or the highest but Adrenalin Quarry does claim to have the UK’s maddest zip wire! Jump off the cliff and reach speeds of up to 40mph as you traverse through the sky for 490m above the quarry. Adrenalin Quarry had a host of other high adrenaline activities too, including karting, axe throwing and a giant swing. Build a day in as part of a Cornwall break at Deerpark, our idyllic hot tub cabin location which is just 20 minutes’ drive from the zip wire.

Eden Project in Cornwall

Also close to Deerpark, is Eden Project. You may not associate these planted biomes with the adrenaline rush of a zip wire but that’s where you’d be missing a trick. Outside, the Hang Loose adventure has England's longest and fastest zip wire, an aerial assault course, and a giant swing.

Forest of Dean Adventure Challenge

Stay in a cosy cabin at Forest of Dean and join the Adventure Challenge. Two hours of high excitement, tackling four challenges: The Crate Stack, Leap of Faith, The High Balls and of course, The Zip Wire.

Keldy Forest zip wire

Another UK zip wire awaits when you stay at Cropton or Keldy, our forest locations in North Yorkshire. It’s not the longest, nor the highest but maybe we can claim it’s the friendliest UK zip wire experience. Enjoy 55 minutes of whizzing down the wire as many times as you can get back to the top.

Zip trek adventure

Feel the wind in your face as you fly through the trees at Go Ape. Zip trek adventure at their Grizedale course is one of the UK’s longest zip experiences (one of their best kept secrets). It is the ultimate adventure for zip wire lovers. Check out their activity page for more information.

Enjoy a break in the forest

All these amazing UK zip wires are easy to build into your cabin break and after you have tested your nerve to the limit, you can return to the peace of the forest and soak beneath the stars in your own outdoor hot tub. Book your adventure holiday today.