Adventure Park at Sandy Spring

If you're in the D.C. area, I highly recommend the Adventure Park at Sandy Spring - the nation's largest aerial forest adventure park.

One of my favorite features was that we had our own zipline device we carried with us the whole way. About every third element required ziplining between trees, sometimes a combo zipline/trapeze or snowboard feature.


Photo: Start of courses

Photo: Adventure Park course, view from the trees.

Other elements usually included balancing on logs and barrels or climbing higher in the tree-tops. The Adventure Park had 5+ courses to choose from, up to a "double black diamond" level that had a 70% fail rate. A ticket allows three hours at the Park, so we were able to complete three different courses.


Video: Tom snowboard zip-lining

During a hot summer, zip-lining through the trees was mighty fun.