Soar Adventure Tower in Franklin, Tennessee

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) – America’s first full-sized aerial adventure park opens Saturday in Williamson County.

 

SOAR Adventure Tower is 50 feet tall and takes up 10,000 square feet. There are four levels and more than 120 climbing elements for all ages.

 

Aerial Adventure Parks are well known in Europe but this is the first of its kind in America. Franklin’s park is designed by an adventure park from Germany.

 

SOAR Adventure Tower celebrates Music City by featuring elements themed with music and allowing climbers to play an actual drum set suspended 20 feet above the ground.

 

Additionally, local musicians will perform live each Thursday night at SOAR Adventure Tower.

 

Safety is top priority at SOAR Adventure Tower, utilizing the highest quality of safety equipment and technology on the market.

 

The Safe Link SSB ensures the climber is never detached from a safety line. Once attached, the interconnected carabiners can only be opened one at a time.

More pics in link:

http://wkrn.com/2015/08/14/aerial-adventure-park-opens-in-franklin/

 

The only other ropes course I've experienced was the, now defunct, Adventure Mountain at Dollywood, which was a lot of fun.

 

So this is pretty exciting for me, because it's right down the street from where I used to live. Also, it's located conveniently next to Dental Bliss (a fancy-ass dentist office that's almost a tourist attraction in its own right. Seriously, they actually serve wine in the waiting room. lol), so if you end up doing something stupid on the ropes course and your teeth get knocked out, then it's totally not even a big deal.

[A.J.]

Arg, too far away from Dollywood to be a part of my "courses, coasters and culture" tour.