Coniston Water Watersports
Kayak, canoe and rowing boat hire on Coniston Water from a National Park-run centre a few minutes from the village.
- watersports
- Coniston Boating Centre
Adventure
Zip lines, cable cars, climbing, caving and bike parks. The bookable end of a mountain trip, and the part that keeps a group happy when half of them do not want to walk up anything.
The Lake District
Honister Slate Mine Via Ferrata
A fixed-cable route up a working slate mine's quarry face at the top of Honister Pass, run by the mine.
- via ferrata
- Honister Slate Mine
Whinlatter Forest Bike Park
Forestry England mountain bike trails northwest of Keswick, graded blue and red, free to ride with paid parking only.
- bike park
- Forestry England
Eryri (Snowdonia)
Snowdon Mountain Railway
Rack-and-pinion railway from Llanberis to the summit of Yr Wyddfa, the highest point in Wales reachable without walking.
- mountain railway
- Snowdon Mountain Railway
Zip World Llechwedd (Bounce Below)
Trampoline nets strung through a slate cavern at Blaenau Ffestiniog, reachable from Betws-y-Coed by road or the same railway line.
- caving
- Zip World Llechwedd
Zip World Penrhyn Quarry (Velocity 2)
Four parallel zip lines across a flooded slate quarry near Bethesda, marketed by the operator as the fastest zip line in the world.
- zip line
- Zip World Penrhyn Quarry
The Peak District
Climbing on Stanage Edge
One of the most famous climbing venues in the UK, three miles of gritstone edge above Hathersage with routes at every grade.
- climbing
Peak Cavern
Britain's largest natural cave entrance, a show cave beneath Peveril Castle with a history of rope-making inside its mouth.
- caving
- Peak Cavern
Scotland
Cairngorm Mountain Funicular
Britain's highest railway, climbing from Coire Cas to the Ptarmigan building at 1,097 metres on the shoulder of Cairn Gorm.
- mountain railway
- Cairngorm Mountain
Glencoe Mountain
A chairlift-served bike park and summer activity centre at the head of Glen Coe, with cross-country and downhill mountain bike trails.
- bike park
- Glencoe Mountain
Nevis Range Mountain Gondola
A gondola up Aonach Mòr to 650 metres, which Nevis Range calls the UK's only mountain gondola, with a downhill bike track and hill paths at the top.
- cable car
- Nevis Range
Sea Kayaking from Portree
Guided sea kayak sessions on Skye's coast, with tasters run from Portree harbour and half and full-day trips launching around Portree and Uig.
- watersports
- North Skye Outdoors