High ropes
Go Ape Dalby Forest
Dalby Forest, near Pickering, North Yorkshire · YO18 7LT
A Go Ape birthday is an outdoor high-ropes session: harnesses, trees, and a finite amount of time, with party bags and a forest shelter you can add when you book. Children need to meet the height rule for the course you pick. It is one of the better parties for 8 to 14, and a miserable idea in a thunderstorm — they will cancel or move you, and you should be glad. Dalby is a proper forest drive from York or Scarborough. Leave earlier than a city birthday.
Activities from about £19 a person, before shelter hire or party bags
Open the birthday party pageParking
Forest car parks are the system, and some charge. The course postcode is the one to send. Phone signal in the trees is a nice idea and occasionally a lie, so agree the meeting point before you lose each other.
Food and drink for the adults
Adults can do a course, watch, or sit the session out with a coffee if the site has one. Do not assume a roast dinner. Party bags are an optional extra at checkout, which is useful because you may not want pockets full of plastic after a zip wire. If parents are staying outdoors for two hours, tell them to bring a layer and a drink.
Good to know
Pick the course that matches the shortest child, not the tallest cousin. A £3-ish transaction fee has been added online. Book the location on the national party page — this pin is that forest, not 'Go Ape somewhere'.
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