Waldkletterpark Velbert

What makes Waldkletterpark Velbert special

The climbing maze exists in this form only here — a net maze up to 13 metres high which the operator describes as unique in Germany. It is part of the children's course, with 30 minutes on top of the regular climbing time.

Eight courses from green to black make up the Adventure area: over 100 climbing elements, ziplines up to 150 metres, two Tarzan jumps, the banana jump, the Xtreme course and the catapult swing.

Access depends on height: 105 cm for the children's course, 140 cm for Adventure. The ages of four and ten are recommendations; what gets measured is height.

Climbing time is generous — four hours on the Adventure course, and on the children's course 90 minutes plus 30 minutes in the maze. You pay on site, and there are no cancellation fees.

The park carries a whole day out. The grounds hold the climbing bistro "Das Baumhaus" with a beer garden, a minigolf course and a lookout tower – so you can stay on when the four hours of climbing are over, or when not everyone in the group wants to go up into the trees. The park lies between Wuppertal and Essen in Velbert-Langenberg.

Here the opening hours do follow a logic and are listed in the operator's calendar at wald-abenteuer.de/oeffnungszeiten.