SHOPPING is always fun, but now a trip to Sunshine Plaza can be an adrenalin-charged adventure.
Australia’s largest high ropes course, Next Level, will open its zip lines to the public at 9am on Friday, November 27.
The adventure park is Melbourne-based, TreeTops Adventure Group’s, first Queensland location following the success of 13 other parks across Australia.
It forms part of Sunshine Plaza’s vision to create a world-class dining, shopping and now adventure experience.
TreeTops Adventure Group CEO Nicolas Dansin said the much-anticipated high ropes course would test participants and challenge their limits as they scaled the obstacles and flew the zip lines over Cornmeal Creek in Maroochydore.
“We are delighted to be opening our first Next Level branded park here in Queensland, which has seen us expand from building high ropes courses in the natural environment to creating our first ropes course on poles in an urban, outdoor location,” Mr Dansin said.
“There really is something for every level of participant, starting from the age of six and ranging up through all ages and skills to the most capable climbers, who will enjoy the challenge of the three most difficult courses which reach up to 18m above the ground.”
“The park includes seven different high ropes circuits categorised across four levels of difficulty and – working within the COVIDSafe guidelines for our industry – we can have up to 140 people across the 145 aerial obstacles and 16 zip lines at any given time.”
The course has over a kilometre of zip lines, the longest of which spans 135 metres across Cornmeal Creek taking participants from all levels back to the starting point on the main tower. Next Level also includes a 22m-high viewing platform offering impressive 360-degree views of the Sunshine Coast which can be accessed as a separate activity to the high ropes.
Sunshine Plaza Centre Manager Michael Manwaring said the attraction would be a great drawcard, not only for locals but for key drive markets like Hervey Bay, Bundaberg and visitors from the west who already travelled to Maroochydore to experience the first super-regional shopping centre north of Brisbane.
Next Level tickets start from $25 for 6-17-year-olds, $35 for those 18 plus and $5 for the viewing platform.
INFORMATION: www.nextlevelpark.com.au.
