Ackers Adventure Activities (Birmingham)
| park, adventure/activity centre
United Kingdom /
England /
Birmingham /
Golden Hillock Road
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/ United Kingdom
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World / United Kingdom / England
park, adventure/activity centre
The Ackers Adventure Activities park is a large adult and childrens leisure park providing outdoors activities including skiing, snowboarding, toboganning, climbing, canoeing, bellboating, orienteering and archery.
The site was formerly the shooting range used for testing guns by the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House, although became obsolete with the construction of new indoor facilities at their current site in Digbeth. It then became a motorcycle track.
Ackers Adventure, an independent charitable limited company that was established in 2005 to continue to expand on the aims and objectives of The Ackers Trust. The Trust was set up in 1981 and still continues to protect the site synonymously with Ackers Adventure. The objective of Ackers Adventure is for the general benefit of initially the local community and then the inhabitants of other areas nationally in charitable ways.
The site, set in 70 acres of semi-rural land has a varied and wide range of activities on offer including 100 m dry ski slope, 20 m nursery ski slope, 20 m snowboard lesson slope, 2 climbing walls, an adventurous events 20 m high tower (for climbing and abseiling, you can jump down using fan descender or zip down on our 150 m long zip wire) and 2 archery courses (including illuminated archery course for evening archery). There is also a residential building with 26 beds for overnight group stays.
Ackers Base Camp (ABC)
Golden Hillock Road,
Sparkbrook,
Birmingham
B11 2PY
Telephone: 0121 772 3739
The site was formerly the shooting range used for testing guns by the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House, although became obsolete with the construction of new indoor facilities at their current site in Digbeth. It then became a motorcycle track.
Ackers Adventure, an independent charitable limited company that was established in 2005 to continue to expand on the aims and objectives of The Ackers Trust. The Trust was set up in 1981 and still continues to protect the site synonymously with Ackers Adventure. The objective of Ackers Adventure is for the general benefit of initially the local community and then the inhabitants of other areas nationally in charitable ways.
The site, set in 70 acres of semi-rural land has a varied and wide range of activities on offer including 100 m dry ski slope, 20 m nursery ski slope, 20 m snowboard lesson slope, 2 climbing walls, an adventurous events 20 m high tower (for climbing and abseiling, you can jump down using fan descender or zip down on our 150 m long zip wire) and 2 archery courses (including illuminated archery course for evening archery). There is also a residential building with 26 beds for overnight group stays.
Ackers Base Camp (ABC)
Golden Hillock Road,
Sparkbrook,
Birmingham
B11 2PY
Telephone: 0121 772 3739
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°27'31"N 1°51'8"W
- Sheldon Country Park 4.3 km
- Elmdon Park 5.5 km
- Earlswood Lakes 10 km
- Woodgate Valley Country Park 11 km
- Lickey Hills 13 km
- Waseley Hills Country Park 15 km
- Uffmoor Wood 16 km
- Arrow Valley Park 17 km
- Clent Hills Country Park 18 km
- Pepper Wood 19 km
- Tyseley Industrial Estate 0.3 km
- Tyseley Maintrain Train Depot 0.6 km
- Tyseley sidings and Railway Museum 0.6 km
- Small Heath sidings 1.3 km
- Balti Triangle 1.6 km
- Hall Green 2.3 km
- Yardley 3 km
- Hodge Hill 4.2 km
- Ladywood 4.6 km
- Solihull (Metropolitan Borough) 8.7 km
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