Located about an hour outside of Pittsburgh, in the small town of St Clairsville OH, tucked back in the woods, you will find Adventure Creek. We found Adventure Creek through Groupon, and what a find it turned out to be! At first, we were a tad apprehensive since the website depicts smaller children maneuvering through the course. We thought that maybe this is too easy. We decided to book it anyway and as it turned out we were completely off on the challenging aspect of it. To generalize, yes children can and do the tree trekking course here. However, there are different levels to the obstacle courses. So, if you are a family and looking to have a challenging adventure you can definitely bring the kiddies along to participate in the alternate obstacles and zip lines. If you are a ninja looking for an upper body-punishing workout and the thrills of zip lining through the trees do yourself a favor, go to Groupon, and get a pass to visit. For the price, you most definitely will not be disappointed. We have now become huge fans of this course and have visited three times so far. We will certainly be back next season. The course has a variety of zip lines. I would say roughly 10 different ones, and takes about 3 hours to complete, give or take depending upon the group size. The zip lines vary in length but the final zip line is probably the longest and has the best views. The most challenging parts of the course are where you have to balance yourself on a five-foot log suspended 30+ feet in the air then hoist yourself about another 7 feet up to another shorter log where you wrap your legs around and shimmy to the next log to transition midair. It is extremely challenging and requires a ton of core and upper body strength. Moreover, if you are short like me it makes it even harder. Sadly, I have yet to complete it, always failing on the 7-foot leap off the already unstable log. I am hoping next year is my year! However, if you do make it across that, or in my case dragged through that section you will meet several more intense obstacles before finding yourself on the 30+ platform in the trees where you free jump, swinging like Tarzan to a cargo net a hundred feet away, and then climb back up to another tree platform. If you are not extremely exhausted by then there are still several other challenging obstacles before you zip line to the ground. I am glad they decided to advertise through Groupon, as it is highly unlikely we would have ever learned of this place. It is absolutely worth the journey to Ohio to visit and challenge yourself both mentally and physically. What a fun time, we cannot wait to return. read more

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My wife and I were looking for a place for a little adventure. We have been working out hard together and wanting to test out how far we have come so far. We searched the internet and looked at different activities to do and then my wife found this Adventure Creek on Groupon. Just from looking at the Groupon, their actual website, and reading some reviews it got us interested. We thought it might not be too challenging because we saw a lot of pictures with kids being able to go on this. We weren't sure if this was what we were looking for but we deiced to get the Groupon and try out Adventure Creek anyways. Little did we know that we would have one of the best days together probably in a few years! Adventure creek is almost in the middle of no where in St. Clairsville Ohio. You're in the woods zip lining, challenging yourself in different obstacle courses in the air, and just having fun! I have so much to say about this place but I will keep it short so people will read this. You first have to call and reserve a spot for you to go to Adventure Creek. That day we arrived there 30 minutes early and there was nobody there. So we just took some pictures and then eventually other people who were going to be in our group started arriving. At first one family thought that my wife and I were the tour guides. They started asking us questions on what they were supposed to do. I guess we looked the part LOL! Eventually our tour guides Xavier and Krista welcomed us and got us started. They were great guides and made this adventure even better. They first helped us get our safety equipment on. Then they went over some safety tips and rules and then we were headed to our first zip line. I went first in the group and then my wife was right behind me. It started off slow because we had a large group but once we got going the pace picked up. There were smaller zip lines and there were bigger ones. Good for adults and kids. You strap yourself to the line and you just go. Sometimes you could go upside down and get good pictures of yourself. The zip lines were really fun and not too challenging. What really tested us that day and what will have us coming back are their obstacle courses. It's hard to explain but hopefully the pictures that you see of us help. You're basically in the air trying to balance, climb, pull, and push your self through some very challenging obstacles in the air. They had different levels and you didn't have to go through these if you didn't want to. We did of course try the hardest ones and we were challenged but had so much fun. I felt excited, nervous, happy, scared, bold, and fearful at so many times during these obstacles it was great! It really gave us the challenge that we wanted. This is a great bonding experience too. Like I said my wife and I have been working out together and going through Adventure Creek got us even closer to each other. We got through these challenges together and I was so proud of my wife. She was the only girl that tried and was able to get through the toughest obstacles. Some tips for you when go to Adventure creek are wear pants or shorts with zipper pockets. This really helped because you can hold your cell and not worry about it falling out when you are upside down. Next time we will bring gloves because she did get some blisters from the zip lines and the obstacle courses. Try to get the safety belts with the water holders. That came in very handy for us. If you do go on the hardest obstacle be careful when you jump off their tall ledge. It can hurt when you bounce back up. Just be prepared for that jerk when you bounce back up. If you are looking to have a lot of fun but be really challenged this is the place for you. It's a great bonding experience with your loved ones. It will push you to your limits but when you complete them together it gives you such a high. Doing this with my wife just showed us that we can do anything together and we can't wait to go on to our next adventure! read more

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Ventured out to Adventure Creek for an outing for work with some campers. In this instance, first impressions are not always right. I missed the turn into the driveway because despite the "adventure creek" sign it looked like a residential driveway. After I turned around, with girls giggling with my direction abilities, I pulled into the driveway. At the end of the driveway was a shack. Yes, a shack. Literally a shack in between two residential areas. As I am not from the area, this didn't seem like a legit place. My fellow counselor and I looked at each other with the "what the heck are we in for?!?" look. Despite the first impression the trekking adventure with Krista and Xavier was AWESOME. It was definitely a trip that I enjoyed as well as my tween campers. They were very knowledgeable, patient, and strong when working with the girls. We had 14 very loud and self-determined young girls on the trip and they all had a great time. Krista and Xavier took on the role of the invisible leader, there to offer encouragement and help, but for the most part the girls got to work through the course themselves. The course was set up 50/50 as a high ropes course and ziplining. My upper body was feeling this trip (in a good way) for a couple days. I would definitely go "hang with them" again. Tip: On the last ziplining obstacle, definitely hang upside down. The view will not disappoint. :) read more