Venue Description

The Treetop Walk, Avondale is a wheelchair accessible walk through and above the trees in Avondale Forest Park. The forest habitat surrounds you and the natural gradient of the land means that although the walkway does not climb or descend more than a few degrees you will see all the different levels of trees around you from ground level right up to the forest canopy. At one point the walkway is over 23 metres above the forest floor. Along the walkway you pass through Avondale Forest’s Arboretum, a collection of the finest trees in Ireland. You can learn interesting details about the famous trees that you are passing by and you can find the ones that were planted by Samuel Hayes over 300 years ago or during the Great Tree Experiment when Avondale was a Forestry Experimentation Station in the early 1900s.

Accessibility

The Treetop Walks is a wheelchair friendly boardwalk that brings the customer from ground level to a height of 23m and back down to ground level. We then take you through a tunnel and onto our 38m high viewing tower. The slope is no greater that 6 degrees, to facilitate wheel chair users. Registered Carers accompanying a disabled visitor go free. We have a disabled toilet at the base of the tower. There is a "changing places" bathroom within the park. Our Treetop Treasures shop is fully wheelchair accessible. Should a wheelchair user wish to avail of our slide, we have a wheelchair that we can transfer the user into, while their chair is brought down form the top of the tower. For neuro diverse customers who do not wish to queue for the slide, a slide pass can be purchased in the Treetop Treasures shop, allowing them, and their carer to skip the queue for the slide.

Accessibility Guide

Accessibility Guide Link: https://www.beyondthetreesavondale.com/plan-your-visit/accessibility

Access Statement

Access Statement Link: https://www.beyondthetreesavondale.com/accessibility-statement

Toilets

Information about the toilets has not been added for this venue.

Staff

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