Adventure Park Insider—Natick, Mass., Aug. 1, 2025—Late-summer through mid-autumn is shaping up to be a busy season for staff training and credential renewals across the aerial-adventure industry.
Operators in the East will find a dense calendar at High 5 Adventure’s Brattleboro, Vt., campus, which rolls out Level 1 “Adventure Basics” weeks, “Beyond Basics” Level 2 courses, two-day refreshers for each level, and monthly exam days from August into late October. Not far away, Project Adventure in Beverly, Mass., keeps a workshop rhythm that includes Adventure Programming, Belay Basics & Verification, a mid-September Technical Skills Intensive, an early-October Advanced Skills & Standards course, and quarterly exam days.
In Blowing Rock, N.C., Challenge Towers hosts its ACCT-accredited Challenge Course Manager program, Sept. 8-12, followed by an open-enrollment Level 1/Level 2 operator week, Sept. 21-26. Both conclude with on-site exams. A little farther south, Adventure Experiences offers a residential Full Level 1 course at Camp War Eagle near Rogers, Ark., Sept. 28–Oct. 3, capped by a one-day recert exam.
In the Midwest, ABEE will offer a four-day Level 1 Special-Event Operator course in Waupun, Wis., (Aug. 12-15) aimed at operators who build temporary or festival-style experiences.
Westward, Signature Research brings a three-day High- and Low-Elements course to Bellevue, Wash., Oct. 6-8., while Challenge Works plans both a Fundamentals Level 1 and an Advanced Level 2 operator training on Oct. 20-24, in Scotts Valley, Calif.
Canadian operators have two strong options within a three-hour drive of Toronto. Adventureworks! in Hamilton, Ontario, compresses its full ladder of courses into the first week of September: Low-Ropes Facilitator, Level 1 and Level 2 operator tracks, plus two-day refresh/recert sessions run back-to-back. A couple weeks later, Challenges Unlimited offers concurrent Level 1 and Level 2 operator workshops at YMCA Camp Pine Crest in Torrance, pairing classroom sessions with lakeside towers and shoreline low-ropes.
For managers looking to stay current on standards, ACCT’s virtual Open Office Hours (next on Aug. 21) remains a free, low-commitment way to hear policy and credentialing updates without leaving the office.
With new pop-up courses appearing regularly—and popular seats filling quickly—operators may want to bookmark each provider’s schedule page now and check back every couple weeks.
