Giant Spiral Pathway Lets Visitors Walk Above The Treetops In Denmark

Sep 02, 2019

Camp Adventure is a nature observatory and park located in a preserved forest called Gisselfeld Klosters Skove in Haslev, Denmark. It is about an hour’s drive south of Copenhagen.

Camp Adventure has a sturdy walking bridge made of wood that extends almost 3,000 feet through the forest and ends at the base of the observation tower which stands 148 feet high. Taller than any of the trees in the forest, it gives visitors a panoramic view of the area.

Getting to the top requires going up a spiral ramp that is 650 meters or nearly 2,133 feet long.

The path to the observation tower begins at the Visitors’ Center, which includes a gift shop and restrooms. The winding path features places where visitors may sit and rest or watch birds. There’s one section where the path splits into two, with one section going high into the tree’s canopy while the other remains close to the ground.

The high walkway includes different activities that teach visitors about the park, and it goes through the oldest sections of the forest.

Camp Adventure, which is described as the largest adventure park in Denmark, was established in 2013. Its other attractions include Northern Europe’s longest zip line that extends 475 meters or 1558 feet. It also features an indoor climbing wall and ten climbing courses.

Its new showpiece, the observation tower opened at the end of March 2019. EFFEKT, the Danish design firm responsible for the tower, designed it to look like part of the landscape. EFFEKT’s work on the tower earned it the ICONIC award for “Visionary Architecture” in 2017. It took eleven months to construct the tower, and EFFEKT used steel and locally-grown oak trees, which gave the tower the same coloration as the surrounding forest.

Instead of the usual cylinder, the tower is shaped like an hourglass with a narrow “waist” and a wide base and top. The design increases the stability of the tower, and it also permitted the construction of a larger observation deck than a cylindrical design would have. Both the tower and its path were designed to be accessible to both those in wheelchairs and babies in trams.

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