The New ‘Ramblewild’ Forest Adventure Park Is Open in Massachusetts

[sheshe2]

You don’t have to travel to the jungles of Costa Rica to try ziplining through a forest. Now, you can bounce between timbers by driving two hours on the Pike.

Ramblewild, an adventure park for children and adults where you can literally swing from the trees, is now open in Lanesborough. The park was built sustainably, according Feronia Forests, which owns the land and Vertical Water maple water. And although Drink Maple is technically a “local” company with its offices in Concord, the trees that make its water are in Canada (there’s a plan in motion for a farm in Vermont to take over production in 2015), whereas the trees that supply Vertical Water come from New York state, just a stone’s throw from the Massachusetts border.

Feronia’s forests span across the state line and into the Berkshires, where they created a 900-acre park with eight different tree-to-tree trails. Each trail has about 12 elements and varies in difficulty.

“We want to keep trees vertical,” says co-owner Valentina Cugnasca. “We took the time to source the right building of the park and do it sustainably. Our mission is to reconnect people to the forest, and have a great time doing it. Very few trees were actually touched in the construction of [Ramblewild]. And you don’t have to be up in the trees; you can go on a meditative walk as well. People can be in the forest on different levels. It’s a physical and spiritual adventure being outside with nature.”

The park is intentionally in an area that has no electricity and no cover. There’s nothing over you except the tree canopy and nothing under you except forest. “When you’re in our park, you experience what we call a ‘forest immersion experience,’” says CEO Tim Gallagher. “The forest is all around you and you are a part of it. This helps people disconnect with media and the rush of the day-to-day tasks and enjoy the quiet calm of being a part of the forest. Families find time to reconnect in a natural environment while enjoying watching and challenging each other in a healthy, outdoor activity. At no cost, family members can walk the trails beneath the park and watch their family members experience the thrill of moving through the trees.”



More Here: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2014/07/25/ramblewild/





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Wow...so cool! To pricey for me though.

[pipi_k]

1. Very cool...

I live not far from Lanesborough, about four towns away. All that forest looks like my immediate surroundings.

It's great that people in the Big Cities have a place to go to experience the things I live with every day.

My only hope is that they treat the area with respect and not act like some of my neighbors who carelessly toss their damned trash out their car windows along the dirt roads and such. One neighbor even tosses his empty beer cans out along the side of the roads between his house and his business in town.


I'm willing to share my neck of the woods (ha...pun intended) with anyone willing to respect it.

[sheshe2]

2. It looks beautiful there in your neck of the woods, pipi_k.

I too hope that they respect their surroundings.

It looks like a lot of fun.

[unhappycamper]

3. Once upon a time

New England Telephone, uhh, NYNEX, uhh, Bell Atlantic ehh, Bell Atlantic, uhh Verizon usta have some pretty good training.

One of those sessions was team building and I recall doing something similar as a team building exercise.

That's back in the old days, when New England Telephone/NYNEX/Bell Atlantic//Bell Atlantic/Verizon cared about its employees.