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January 2008
Posted by: webmaster
| Go Ape and New Mountain Bike Trail at Whinlatter Forest Park |
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The Forestry Commission is introducing exciting new facilities at Whinlatter Forest Park. These will be a Go Ape high wire adventure, and a new mountain bike trail.
The Forestry Commission has welcomed the decision to give the go ahead to a new mountain bike trail and a Go Ape high wire forest adventure course at Whinlatter near Keswick.
Planners at the Lake District National Park Authority gave the £500,000
project the all clear at a meeting on Tuesday 4th December. Graeme Prest, Forest Management Director for the Forestry Commission, said: "We’re delighted that these new facilities will now be developed at Whinlatter.
“Thousands of people who visit the Forest go mountain biking but up to now there has been no purpose built bike trail. This new trail will therefore be a great opportunity for mountain bikers to develop their skills or simply go out and have fun.
“Go Ape has been a huge hit at Grizedale Forest and we’re confident it will also be very popular with visitors to Whinlatter.”
The 19 kilometre bike trial will be the longest purpose built trail in the Lake District and will involve building 15 kilometres of new single track trail. The trail will be built by Hugh Clixby who has previously constructed trails for the Forestry Commission at Dalby in North Yorkshire and Cannock Forest in the West Midlands. It will be sponsored by Altura, who make clothing for cyclists.
Bike hire facilities are provided at the Whinlatter trail centre by Cyclewise from Penrith, who also offer mountain bike training.
The North Face Trail, which opened at Grizedale Forest in 2006, has been a very big success story.
The Go Ape high wire forest adventure courses include rope bridges, tarzan swings and zip slides up to 40 feet up in the trees. Customers are fitted with a climbing harness, given instructions, and then trek from tree to tree high above the forest floor.
The new facilities are expected to open in summer 2008 and will lead to the creation of 10 new jobs as well safeguarding 12 existing jobs. The North West Regional Development Agency will be helping to fund the construction of the mountain bike trail and redevelopment of the car park at the Visitor Centre.
Whinlatter Forest Park is England’s only true mountain forest. Rising to 790 metres above sea level it offers spectacular views of the Lake District and into Scotland.
UPDATE: 10-11-08
The first half of the Altura Trail (North Loop) has been open since June and is used frequently. It is graded as a red route which means difficult. The second half (south loop) is nearing completion and the Forestry Commission are working towards an official opening of the whole route on 1st Dec 2008.
The north loop of the Whinlatter mountain bike trail is 10km and the south is 9km, again classed as a red route. There is now a Whinlatter Mountain Bike Trail draft route map.
More information about Whinlatter Forest Park can be found at Whinlatter Altura Mountain Bike Trail.
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