Go Ape is an award-winning outdoor pursuits company which runs twelve high wire adventure courses in forests in England and Scotland consisting of rope ladders, zip-lines, rope bridges, trapezes and swings. The course in Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, near Aberfoyle in Stirling, has a 426 metre zip-line, the longest in Britain.
History
The company was founded in 2001 by Rebecca and Tristram Mayhew, after they completed a tree-top adventure course in France, and has a contract with the Forestry Commission for courses on multiple sites. In November 2007, a proposal for a combined mountain biking facility and Go Ape course in Whinlatter Forest Park, near Keswick in the Lake District, was turned down when local people and two parish councils objected over concerns about an increase in traffic. Similar concerns have also been raised about a proposed course at Wendover Woods in the Chiltern Hills. In 2003, the company won a Best Tourist Attraction award It is currented shortlisted for the Best Norfolk Attraction award at the 2007 Tourism In Norfolk Awards, to be announced on 22nd November.
Go Ape Locations
*Thetford Forest, East Anglia
*Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
*Swinley Forest, Bracknell
*Moors Valley, Dorset
*Sherwood Pines, Notts
*Forest of Dean, Glos
*Delamere Forest, Cheshire
*Buxton, Derbyshire
*Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire
*Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
*Alice Holt, Surrey
*Bedgebury Forest, Kent
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