Epic Travel → North America → The South → Florida → Tampa Bay Area → TreeUmph! Adventure Course

Location: Bradenton, Florida

Time Required: 3 – 6 hours (time required depends as much on how backed up the course gets as on your own speed – if you want to race through the course, pick the first start time possible).

Red Tape/Notes: Reservations are generally required – you must book a specific start time for the course, but there’s no time limit. Specific hours vary by season, but they’re always open Thursday – Sunday, and always closed on Wednesdays. Admission is about $60 per adult (the website will say $54.95, but that’s before tax). For more details, visit their website.

What’s Nearby?: Chihuly Collection, Beach Horseback Ride/Swim, Solomon’s Castle

This adventure course is a ton of fun – a maze of wobbly bridges, zip lines, swing ropes, and other fun obstacles are set high in the trees, and the final zip line runs 650 feet across a lake. We like it so much that we’ve done the course multiple times. We like to try and navigate the ridiculously wobbly bridges and logs without touching the cable line above or our tether, which usually results in some hilarious “falls” (you don’t actually fall because you’re clipped in, you just sort of dangle in an unseemly way and look a bit ridiculous). The last section of the course is actually fairly challenging -it’s set 60 feet off the ground and has more difficult obstacles to navigate than the rest of the course. Apparently only about 10% of people actually do this section. Those people are totally missing out.

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