The Ultimate Adventure
Rides & Attractions
Ultimate Adventures
Ultimate Adventures are for
anyone with the nerves to face up to the challenge! Suitable for guests from
nine years old upwards and over 1.2 meters in height.
Start your ultimate adventure
by catapulting to dizzying heights aboard Whirlwind. Regarded as one of the UK
Climb aboard, if you dare, The
Black Pearl and feel the momentum build as she gets ready to rotate your 360
degrees through the air. Feel the tight grip of The Eagle’s Claw as it provides
an insanely extreme experience before ascending to the tree tops of The
Twister.
The Ultimate is Lightwater Valley Europe
with a ride time approaching six minutes.
Finally venture below ground
into the world of Raptor Attack’s Abandoned Mineshaft which offers a completely
immersive, underground experience, widely regarded as one of the best dark
rides in the United
Kingdom
The Black Pearl
The Black Pearl forms the
centerpiece of our landmark Skeleton Cove pirate-themed area and is unusual
amongst modern pirate ships in that it rotates through 360 degrees. The Black
Pearl provides awesome views of the park (for those who are brave enough to
keep their eyes open) and a very unique ride experience.
Visible from most areas of the
park, this 85 foot attraction is one of only a handful of rides within Lightwater Valley
As the ride picks up momentum,
she turns a full 360 degrees before doing the same in reverse.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.4m (1.3m accompanied by an
adult)
Whirlwind
Widely regarded as one of the
most intense ride experiences in the UK
Given their proximity, guests
have the opportunity to team this epic ride experience with one of the best
dark ride adventures in the country and an awesome hair-raising encounter with
the longest roller coaster in Europe .
With one of the best ride
operators in the business, Whirlwind is guaranteed to blow you way.
Ultimate Tip: For the most intense ride experience, sit in the
outside seat at the end of the row.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.4m
THE ULTIMATE
The Ultimate is Lightwater Valley Europe
with a ride time approaching six minutes.
The Ultimate has 2 lift hills
of 102ft and 107ft respectively, which both offer awesome views of the park and
epic amounts of both anticipate and airtime. The first half of the ride is
widely regarded as the smoothest section, with the second half of the ride
(between second lift and the station) providing a truly insane ride experience
as the carriage hurtles through some of our deepest and darkest forest en route
back to the station.
Loved by the enthusiast
community for its honesty, brutality and sheer rawness, The Ultimate owes a
debt of gratitude to Lightwater
Valley
Ultimate Tip: For the most intense ride experience, we recommend
sitting in the rear seats.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.3m
THE EAGLE’S CLAW
The Eagle’s Claw provides a
smoother ride experience than Whirlwind yet contributes strongly to Lightwater Valley UK
The Eagle’s Claw provides an
insanely intense ride experience with heaps of air time and is cited by many
guests and enthusiasts as being their favorite Lightwater Valley
Ultimate Tip: Given this ride’s location near the park entrance, the
queue line always tends to be longer in the morning and during the last hour
before the park closes. Waiting times tend to be minimal during the middle par
of the afternoon.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be 1.3m. Customers with excessive
height or chest measurements may struggle to access this attraction.
RAPTOR ATTACK
Widely regarded as one of the
best dark rides in the United Kingdom
Guests queue above ground, but
are dispatched in small groups to explore the dark tunnels of this long
abandoned mining operation. On reaching the ride platform deep underground,
guests are then asked to board a mine cart to further explore this strange
subterranean world.
Ultimate Tip: Watch out for the last Raptor as it’s more menacing
than its brethren and has someone its claws.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.2m. Customers with excessive
height or chest measurements may struggle to access this attraction.
This “drop tower” is not as
traumatic as it sounds, but don’t be fooled as it punches well above its weight
with a good mix of tension, thrills and air time. The ride’s biggest strength
is undoubtedly its unpredictability, in that you never know when the next drop
is coming, so the anticipation is always enjoyable.
As with most tower rides,
riders may get a tingly sensation in their stomach, otherwise known as
butterflies, which is excellent training for our bigger attractions!
Ultimate Tip: Don’t follow the herd and make Trauma Tower
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.1m. Customers with excessive
height or chest measurements may struggle to access this attraction.
SKYRIDER
A beautifully decorated
attraction, many guests refer to Skyrider as the “chair swings”, which is a
very accurate and fitting description. Offering a far superior ride experience than
many customers expect, Skyrider is a firm favorite with thrill seekers of all ages,
providing an awesome mix of speed, height and air time.
Ultimate Tip: Don’t wait in the Skyrider queue early in the morning –
head back to the fairground at lunchtime when waiting times are usually minimal
in this area of the park.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.2m. Customers with excessive
height or chest measurements may struggle to access this attraction.
BLACK WIDOW’S WEB
This mega ride has been resident
at Lightwater Valley
Riders sit inside individual gondolas,
which begin to rotate slowly clockwise and are forced outwards as they gain momentum.
Whilst spinning the large central arm then raises the widow’s web up, taking the
ride to a vertical position.
Going completely upside down, the
rider’s body weight and forces are equalized, which results in the rider feeling
weightless throughout the ride.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.5m (over 1.3m accompanied by
an adult)
THE TWISTER
This spinning roller coaster gives
an awesome, fun-packed experience for all the family, with passengers boarding a
strange waltzer-shaped ride car and heading on an epic ascent to the treetops!
The track is full of seriously tight
turns, giving riders the impression that they might not make it around the next
corner, with the threat of plummeting into the treetops being a constant source
of tension for parents (and amusement for the kids)! With serious amounts of anticipation,
tight turns and swift drops, watch out for the ride cars unhooking on the lower
level as the spinning steps up a gear.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.5m (over 1.2m accompanied by
an adult)
POWDER KEGS
For the uninitiated, a powder keg
is a barrel of gunpowder that was the primary method for storing and transporting
large quantities of black powder up until the 1870s and the adoption of the modern
cased bullet. The kegs always had to be handled with care, since a spark or other
source of heat could cause the contents to deflagrate (burn rapidly with great intensity).
As such, this attraction has the potential to be one of the more explosive rides,
assaulting the pirate senses with a fast, spinning and sometimes dizzying experience.
Located within Skeleton Cove, when
the ride is activated, the platform rotates and the hubs rotate in the opposite
direction to the platform. The combination of the platform slope, hub movement,
and weight displacement within the cars cause them to rock back and forth, the oblique
join mount and the motion of the ride allowing the cars to rotate through 360°.
Ride Restrictions: Passengers must be over 1.3m (1.2m accompanied by an adult)
