Zip World Llechwedd
Zip World Llechwedd is based in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Snowdonia, and offers a professional and friendly team to help you have a great time and enjoy the experiences available.
Home to a wealth of North Wales slate mining history, Slate Caverns now houses world-first underground and above-ground adventures. With views across Snowdonia from the top of Titan 2, where you can zip 1080m from half the height of Snowdon to the world’s only subterranean playground of its kind.
Bounce Below and the Caverns are the most incredible underground adventure zip line and adventure course – there is something for everyone in all weathers.
Activities at Zip World Llechwedd include:
- Bounce Below
- Caverns
- Titan 2
- Underground Golf
- Deep Mine Tour
- BIG RED
We have also included their opening times and contact details. If you have any questions, you can contact the venue directly.
Facilities
Activities available in this location
Open Times
Contact
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Snowdonia
LL41 3NB
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Bounce Below
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Unleash your inner-thrill seeker in our enormous underground net adventure! Jump, bounce and slide your way through this disused mine on the best playground ever!
Zip World Llechwedd's Bounce Below is a unique experience, which allows you to escape into a world of hidden adventure. So, whether you’re a big kid looking for an hour of the most fun you’ll ever have on a net or if you have little kids of your own looking to have a blast, you’ll love Bounce Below! Spectator tickets are also available if the idea of all that bouncing around is a bit much for you!
With 6 trampoline-style nets built into an area twice the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral, there’s plenty to be explored in this subterranean wonderland.
Bounce Below also isn’t the only adventure we have at our Llechwedd site. If you fancy more fun, you could try our zip line: Titan 2 or, traverse our underground course and explore with Caverns. Located within the Snowdonia adventure hub of Blaenau Ffestiniog, it’s just 25 minutes from Porthmadog and the Llyn Peninsula beyond, and less than 45 minutes from Conwy and Llandudno.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 1 hour
- Number of Nets: 6
- Minimum height: 1m
- Maximum weight: 130kg
- Required: Suitable Footwear
- Dress Appropriately: (T-shirts and Shorts Are Not Advised)
- Participants and spectators must be of walking ability
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 7 Children (Below age: 13)
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 7 Children (ages: 13-17)
Caverns
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
A challenging underground course, Caverns is a one-of-a-kind experience that takes up to 3 hours and will leave you exhilarated and drained in equal measure. Set in a historic slate mine, the various nooks, crannies, tunnels and chasms have been brought back to life with 13 zip lines, as well as via ferrata, rope bridges, tightropes and more, to push your bravery and endurance to the ultimate test.
It’s the perfect family day out in the heart of North Wales, with real teamwork and encouragement required to help each other round the course. It’s also a favourite amongst couples, as well as stag and hen parties – a truly unique activity that will provide a lifetime of memories.
Being completely underground, Caverns is an all-weather activity, making it a good plan for when the worst of the Welsh weather hits. It’s located at Zip World Slate Caverns in Blaenau Ffestioniog in the heart of Snowdonia National Park.
If you’re not quite up to the challenge, Bounce Below is right next door, where you can let loose and have fun in the same stunning setting on our bouncy trampoline-style nets.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 3 hours
- Number of Zips: 13
- Minimum height: 1.8m
- Maximum weight: 130kg
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 2 people under 18
- Required: Suitable Footwear
Titan 2
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
What was Europe’s first four-person zip line, Titan 2 has evolved in 2021 to become an exhilarating tour and zip experience, containing 1 kilometre of the same four-person parallel zipping action, while adding an in-depth tour of this historic location to delight all ages.
Your day out begins with the tour, lasting around 45 minutes, as you climb on board one of our iconic former army trucks. Twisting and turning throughout Llechwedd slate quarry, you’ll travel up to an impressive height of 1,400 ft on the area’s incredible manmade mountains, while taking in the sights of the authentic, industrial landscape.
After exploring the area dotted with quarry mills and cutting sheds, you’ll kit up ready for your double zip line descent. Traveling over 1 kilometre with stunning views of the quarry below and Blaenau Ffestiniog with Snowdonia beyond, you’ll speed back down to earth in a seated position – all the better for enjoying those panoramic vistas. In total, the adventure takes about 90 minutes to complete.
With four parallel lines, Titan 2 is ideal for family activity days out, group days or just something to do as a couple, allowing you to race down the zips against each other. With the new tour experience though, even solo explorers will have a great time learning about the area before their once-in-a-lifetime zip.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 2 hours (including 45 minute truck tour)
- How Zip Lines: 2 (bravo & charlie)
- How far: 1080m (Combined)
- Minimum height: 1.8m
- Maximum weight: 130kg
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 3 people under 18
Deep Mine Tour
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Take a step back into the 19th century as you’re submerged 500ft into the rich history of the Deep Mine Tour, where you’ll spend approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes soaking up all there is to know about Llechwedd’s fascinating past.
Head aboard our underground train on Europe's steepest cable railway and learn all about this iconic mine’s 16 underground levels – including where the famous Llechwedd Cheese is matured, and the 8 underwater layers.
You’ll learn all about the work undergone by the former miners. See first-hand where the world-class slate was produced by local men and children, who risked their lives everyday to provide the world with this famous slate.
Our knowledgeable, local guides will show you along the hand-carved chambers of this walking tour, and can host in either English or Welsh to suit your preference.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 85 minutes
- How deep: 500 ft
- Maximum group: 10
- How cold: 7c (approx)
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 5 people under 18
- Required: Suitable Footwear
- You must be able to walk, babe in arms not permitted.
Underground Golf
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Indoor
The world’s first underground adventure golf set in a cave is coming! Take on the 18-hole course, set 500ft below the ground in a disused cavern, and only accessible by Europe’s steepest cable railway. Enjoy the impressive display of lighting and interactive elements as you putt your way through the course’s exciting and unique levels, with 4 floors to tackle.
The mine’s interesting history will be weaved throughout the course, so as you go head-to-head with your friends, you may learn a thing or two too. As you dive deeper into the course and climb the levels, the challenge will increase, really putting your skills to the test. Work together as a team or go neck and neck to detonate the explosives at the end of the course.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 90 minutes
- How many holes: 18
- How deep: 500 ft
- How many floors: 4
- How cold: 7c (approx)
- Minimum age: 3+
- Required: Suitable Footwear
- Walking Ability
- Suitable Clothing
- Supervision Ratio: 1 participating adult | 5 people under 18
Big Red
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
The perfect introduction to the world of adrenaline adventures and zip lining, BIG RED. Once calling Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales its home, it now resides at Zip World Llechwedd.
BIG RED features two side-by-side lines, making it perfect for friends and family to race each other to the end. The zip wires are suspended 30 feet high, and are located at the landing point for Titan 2. It’s a great way for younger kids that can’t take part in Titan 2 to feel involved.
Two goes are included with each ticket, after which you could enjoy a delicious meal at the Llechwedd cafe, before taking on one of our other adventures.
Useful Information
- Duration: up to 45 minutes
- How many goes: 2
- How tall: 30ft
- Weight: 20kg (min) | 80kg (max)
- Supervision Ratio: 1 Spectating adult for people under 18