Zip World
featuring aerial zip lines soaring over quarries, the unique mountain-cart tracks, underground caverns lit with trampolines, and beautifully repurposed industrial sites transformed into thrill-seeker playgrounds.
What is Zip World?
Zip World is a UK-based adventure park brand famous for delivering high-adrenaline experiences usually set within repurposed industrial heritage sites. Founded by ex-Royal Marines commando Sean Taylor in 2013, it started modestly and has since rapidly expanded across Wales and into England.
Taylor’s vision stemmed from a love of zip lines—describing them as “the closest thing to skydiving without jumping out of an aircraft”—and the desire to turn North Wales into a European adventure hub by converting old quarries and mines into thrilling visitor attractions
Key Locations & Signature Attractions
1. Penrhyn Quarry (Bethesda, North Wales)
Home to Velocity, the world’s fastest and Europe’s longest zip line—spanning nearly 1 mile and reaching speeds exceeding 100 mph over the quarry lake.
Also offers Quarry Karts—the UK’s only mountain cart track featuring gravity-fueled three-wheelers navigating tunnels and chicanes up to 40 mph. Visit Wales
Additional attractions include Aero Explorer, a zip-coaster that sends riders at up to 30 mph across a 400 m track complete with loops and spirals.
2. Llechwedd Slate Caverns (Blaenau Ffestiniog)
Offers Bounce Below, the world’s largest underground trampoline park, situated in massive mine caverns—some as large as twice the size of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Adventure includes Titan, Europe’s first four-person zip line (plus shorter versions), and the Zip World Caverns—an underground zip course.
Features guided Victorian mine tours and a deep mine experience.
A new underground golf course was launched here in 2022—the world’s first of its kind.
3. Zip World Fforest (Betws-y-Coed)
Transformed from the original “Treetop Adventures” (opened in 2007), this site blends forest canopy zip lines with soft-play, suitable even for toddlers and families.
4. Tower Colliery (Aberdare, South Wales)
Built on a historic coal mining site, this is Zip World’s first South Wales destination. Its chief attractions include:
Phoenix—the fastest seated zip line in the world, reaching around 70 mph. Zip World
Tower Coaster—Europe’s only two-seater coaster of its kind.
Tower Climber, the UK’s largest adventure climbing course.
On-site Cegin Glo Bar & Bistro for food and drinks.
