Blue Mountain Adventure Park — Attraction in The Blue Mountains

Cons:

First, there are no signs at all for the Adventure Park until one manages to stumble upon the building where tickets to the park are sold. There are no signs on the street indicating where one should park (park in any of the paid parking lots in the area, and walk no more than 10 minutes to the ticket building).

Second, we bought our tickets online, but despite that we were required to wait in the EXACT SAME LINE as everyone who didn’t buy their tickets in advance because you require wristbands to go on the attractions and you must wait to see the ticket sellers to receive said wristbands. I confirmed this requirement with an employee at an attraction who said that with only the online tickets, we would be sent back to the ticket building to get the wristbands.

Third, the attractions themselves are run very poorly from an efficiency perspective. For Timber Challenge, Wind Rider, and Skywalk Challenge, helmets and harnesses are required. So one waits in line to receive the harnesses, which took long (40 minutes), but the wait is expected at places like this, so no complaint here. The harnesses and helmets are put on in groups of about 20-25 people, and then after about 20 minutes of waiting for everyone in your group to get their gear on and adjusted by employees, you are then instructed to walk to a completely different location (2 of the attractions require a short but tiring climb up a hill), which inevitably means the order of the lines gets all jumbled up. In our case, only because of the spot we were instructed to stand to put on our gear, despite being at the very front of the line, we ended up last at the actual attraction.

Fourth, the Timber Challenge has huge issues. First problem, the orientation for the ride is done in the huge groups mentioned before (ours was about 25 people), which make no sense because it is an attraction which involves going through a course one by one, in which you have to wait for the person in front of you to complete a section before you can proceed. So spending 30 minutes preparing a huge group of people to get on the course, only to then send all thirty to the courses is completely inefficient. The orientations should be done in groups no larger than 10, preferably 5, so that people are staggered on the courses, and not a ton of people all go on at once. Second problem, the easy (green) courses are much shorter and easier than the mid-level (blue) courses. This difference in length and difficulty is dangerous, because it means that those who found a green course easy might believe they can complete a blue course with some effort, when they really aren’t capable of safely completing a blue course. This happened to me and my dad, who spoke to an employee before going on a blue course, who made no mention of the extreme jump in fitness required to safely complete it. My dad is 70 and clearly elderly, so I really would have appreciated at least some warning. It was incredibly difficult for me to complete (I’m 29 years old, walk an average of 8000 steps per day, and regularly do dance classes, so I’m not completely inactive), let alone him. And this leads to the third problem: there is no way to quit a course once started. When requesting assistance towards the end of the course because we were both completely destroyed, we were only encouraged to finish it by an employee. I’m incredibly surprised neither of us were badly injured. Be warned: do not to the blue courses unless you have a strong upper-body.

Pros:

First, all employees I witnessed seemed to be following all the safety protocols they were supposed to. I appreciated all the inefficiency of attractions for the sake of safety, despite the fact that there definitely could be huge improvements to efficiency without sacrificing safety.

Second, the attractions we manage to complete were all a lot of fun (I definitely recommend the Ridge Runner), and I even think that if the problems mentioned above were addressed, the Timber Challenge would be an incredible and...

The adventure park is a lot of fun and it has activities for most age groups. We brought the play all day pass and got to experience most of the rides and activities. We enjoyed our rides on the Gondola and we also did some low level hiking as we were not fully prepared for the trials. The parking is free and we found a good spot probably due it being a week day. The staff at the park are very friendly and welcoming.

We were unfortunate as the Agora light path which was an attraction we were looking forward to was cancelled and we did not even get a refund for the inconvenience. And this was the only bad experience as everything else...

Super fun for all ages. I loved the roller coaster. The fact that you could control your own speed was genius, makes the ride appealing for all ages, whether you want a thrill or just a spectacular view of the mountain. The Agora light snow was really special. A self guided tour of the forest at the top of the mountain filled with information about forest life and magical lighting on the ground, trees, and overhead. I went to it twice. Felt like...