High Adventure Centers Blog - Nicholas Wartham

                          How feasible is starting a high adventure center in the middle of a pandemic?  The pandemic has thrown a wrench into all of our plans, and made it practically impossible to do all what we want. High adventure places such as High Gravity which is pictured above has done a fantastic job to accommodate to it's customers and allow for a safe place. While High Gravity has a strong customer base and market segment, how well would a new competitor in town do? There are many things that going to feasibility for success but in this blog we will be talking about high adventure, and Covid-19! The four main ingredients needed to bake that cake of feasibility is: funding, location, management, and your business plan. Now there are more to this than meets the eye but especially in a global pandemic looking at the basics is huge! All these factors have changed because of the pandemic in the ways people spend their money, travel, and what they look for in an adventure ce

How are adventure parks handling the pandemic? Nicholas Wartham - 2/9/2021   High adventure centers are in some eyes just like a mini Disney World. They offer activities such as rock climbing, ropes courses, mountain biking, and other fun recreation activities. Locations like this in the Carolinas are the U.S. National Whitewater Center (USNWC), High Gravity, Aerial Adventure Park, as well as ski mountains that open their slopes for biking, and climbing during the summer time. When March hit, things changed and people were to be in quarantine and create their own adventures, but a home. Places like the USNWC, and other ropes course locations closed its doors this spring in fellowship with Roy Cooper’s stay at home order. In addition the American Hotel and Lodging Association reports that they were struggling to keep their doors open. The recreation and tourism industry was hit quite hard during this pandemic because of lack of travel, and the fear of a global pandemic. People then st