ZipZone Outdoor Adventures — Attraction in Sharon Township

The Kids' adventure park was a pretty awful experience for my 8-year old. We didn't realize that this is not a "canopy tour" style zip line, but truly an adventure course where each line has about a dozen obstacles, which necessitates the rider to clip in and out for each one. Obviously a benefit for safety, but my daughter weighs about 50 pounds and really had a hard time with the large heavy clips and buckles. It seems she was not alone because her training session with about 6-7 other girls took nearly an hour. The staff were kind and helpful as much as they could be, but this leads me to the worst part about this experience. Once your child starts the course, they get no help whatsoever. There is one staff member at the entry point, and then they are completely on their own. There were 2 or 3 staff scattered around but when my daughter was struggling the best they could offer were words of encouragement and verbal tips (this was after I had to run and find someone, because no staff member was actually watching her part of the course). That's right, your child is 50 feet up in the air and unless YOU are watching them, they get zero help and the staff members NEVER TOUCH the safety clips. I assume this is deliberately set up so that the staff members and business are absolved of any legal liability if a customer is injured, but it is totally inexcusable. Even as an adult I would not be comfortable going on a course like this with zero staff up there available to help.

The end result of this was that kids were getting stuck on the course and lines were building up, both on the platforms and on the zip lines themselves. So there is ZERO social distancing. I watched one kid get stuck for nearly ten minutes (he had a parent attempting to help as well). He was only about four feet off the ground but still when a staff member eventually ambled over, she gave some half-hearted advice and WALKED AWAY before he was even able to get his clip unstuck.

Also the only bathrooms on site are porta-potties. If I could give this zero...

Amazing experience! Wish I knew about this place sooner! The adventure park is much harder than it looks, and some parts of the courses can be really wobbly. Recommend starting with the yellow lane for first-timers, really helps ease into the green ones and it’s good practice too. There’re zip lines at the end of each courses which make it feel like a nice reward for the hard work getting through all the obstacles!

The entire climb is super safe since you’re double hooked and locked into the safety wire from the moment you start the climb which makes it physically impossible to fall during the course (really impressed by the design honestly). The safety training session was super helpful and thorough so make sure you arrive on time!

This was our first time and we did the closing time climb starting at 2:15 pm which was 10 dollars off each person. We did two courses, took about an hour in total, and were pretty exhausted by the end, but you can totally spend the entire afternoon climbing and have so much fun! Great for kids and families!

One small advice for ZipZone is that they could do a better job advertising for their adventure park, especially on TikTok and Instagram etc, get content creators to do some reviews! I could hardly find any when I was searching, but it is truly amazing and so worth it! Will come...

This is the best kept secret in Columbus. I went with my SO and my 11 yo son. We had a great time! It was adventurous and got the adrenaline flowing - it was a great way for us to build some special memories.

The staff who work there were friendly and lovely - great at explaining all the important safety info and encouraging us while out on the courses.

We did the adventure course section - which means a brief safety overview and explaining how all the clips and slides work (there's a double safety feature which I very truly appreciated), then as many courses as we could do over the next two hours. The courses are given a color to designate the skill level (yellow - green - blue - black) and you have to complete some of the lower courses to be able to do the harder ones.

The first course was the hardest - but it got easier once we got the hang of things. Once we found our footing, or are "tree legs" (get it?), it was a lot easier.

They take safety seriously, so you're never in any real danger. But definitely take all of their safety training and equipment information seriously.

I would definitely go back....