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FAMILY FUN MINUTES FROM THE CBD
St Ives Showground soars to new heights! Families have a new experience explore along the southern border of Ku-ring-gai National Park. St Ives is our newest Tree Ropes Course Park, hosting 95+ aerial obstacles and 10+ ziplines, all suspended between platforms to create a maze of activities in the treetops. Courses start at 1m for little climbers and jump up to 15 metres for bigger adventurers!
A 2.5-hour session through the aerial challenges (including gearing up) will have you laughing along with the kookaburras. After safety, your adrenaline is our top priority, so our courses are designed to challenge you, no matter what level you’re at.
Course heights range from 1.5m high for Junior Courses, and 5-15m high for Tree Ropes Courses.
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My son, aged 3, was attending a birthday party. We were told there were “no harnesses,” so we patiently waited until another 3-year-old — younger and smaller than my son — came off the course. At that point, I assumed all would be fine. Instead, Dan insisted that my son couldn’t participate due to “height regulations.”
When I pointed out that a younger, shorter child had just completed the course, he doubled down, saying he had the right to refuse anyone. That might be true, but the reasoning here just didn’t add up. My child is older and taller than the one who just came off — so the explanation felt, frankly, like nonsense.
To make it worse, according to your own website, the rule isn’t about “height,” it’s about reach. And let’s be honest — no one was actually measuring reach on the day to confirm, it just felt like he wanted to ride his power trip.
The bright side? My son still had a great time thanks to Rachel, who was absolutely lovely, as well as the young staff doing the harnessing and counter work — all of whom were friendly and professional.
One final note: your waiver iPads are truly on their last legs. A small upgrade there would go a long way in making the customer experience smoother.
The positives first: the staff were absolutely fantastic. The young girl who ran through the safety briefing and helped the kids (ranging from 4–10) had the patience of a saint and managed them all beautifully. She kept things moving, kept them safe, and somehow stayed cheerful in the rain. She was brilliant.
The junior course itself was also great — really fun, well set up, and the kids had an absolute blast despite the weather.
Now the downside:
We were told the course is “all-weather” — and to be fair, the course itself is. But the amenities? Not even close. As you can see from the photos, the designated party area was basically a swamp. There’s barely any cover for 13 kids and all the parents, so when it rained, it was a complete mess.
If this is meant to be an all-weather facility, there really needs to be proper wet-weather infrastructure. It’s not hard to imagine a few covered areas or raised decking. Thankfully, there’s a council park with decent cover about 80m away, but using that made the party feel disconnected from the actual activity. Plus, you need to arrive early to secure it — some parties missed out and were stuck in the rain.
And don’t get me started on the toilets — they’re over 200m from the main area. In heavy rain, trekking there with small kids is just painful. Again, not exactly “all-weather” friendly.
Treetops seriously needs to invest in proper wet-weather facilities or at least offer people the option of a full refund on the day if the weather turns bad.
Bottom line: The activities are great fun, the staff are awesome, and the kids will have a blast. But if you’re organising a party and the forecast says rain, be prepared — it’s going to be a battle to keep everyone dry and comfortable.
We have booked the service at 3:00pm this afternoon. The total session duration was 1 hour 30 minutes.
The staff could not let us start on time because there was no staff to provide the security training. We only can started at 3:30pm. But they could not let us to complete our 1.5 hours session and forced us to leave the park at 16:30!!! And my younger son is Autism Spectrum with intellectual disability. He relies on visual aids to communicate with husband via his iPhone. But the staff has misunderstood with my husband and yelled to him to stop using iPhone and even threatened him to terminate him to into the park in future.
Very disappointed experience and Will never ever come back again! Will also consider to make further complain to Ombudsman as the Service we received was not matched with the price we have paid!
The guys we dealt with Tom & Kai had some of the best customer service I’ve encountered in long time. Really friendly & fun but still professional.
Couldn’t recommend it enough.
Kids loved it and asked when we can go back already.
Two courses for the juniors but there might be nothing junior about them.
If you're in reasonable shape you might be able to blitz the Green and Blue.
Great fun for the family.
Also there's a resting area for when you need to recover. And you can purchase drinks and icicles for the offspring :)
The 2 short junior (3 to 7yo) courses however were disappointing compared to other parks we have been to.
There is a huge difference in physical ability and agility between a 3yo and a 7yo and my daughter was quickly bored as there was no challenge completing the courses. There were also often little kids stuck and a lot of wait on platforms to help them go through.
I think the site is appropriate for younger children or 8+ who can access the other courses but not really catering for kids in between.
Staff was friendly and the experience was ok overall.
We were all told to call out ‘help’ if we needed help and we did that around 20-30 times at a well-above audible level, but nobody came to help.
The climb was quite fine before some inexperienced climbers and horrible staff ruined the experience. Also, before you feel empathetic for the slow climbers because they were new, this happened on the advanced course so they should’ve stocked to the easier courses, as it was their first time.
Finally, the VERY LEAST that the staff could do was patrol the climbing area, and they couldn’t even do that! As far as I could tell, they were just mucking about and not doing their job properly.
All the adults and different aged kids had fun.
The staff are very friendly and helpful.
Also, Sam, Rachel and Emily were very kind and patient in ensuring the kids have a fantastic time.
Thank you!!
Super safe, idiot proof security.
Suitable for adventurous 3 year olds.
A great way to spend 2 hours.
A number of times the staff went above and beyond to help in different situations. Can’t thank enough the two masters of professionalism and customer service.
A great day, will definitely come back!
Our first hand experience below:
1. Poor safety for the junior course. The start of the junior course is not attended for the whole time we're there hence nothing ensures the children will 100% thether in.
2. Poor safety again, where the glider can be used, there is nothing makes sure kids won't be crossing underneath. The low clearance means it's completely possible for a kid to get hit - unsafe for both the children crossing on foot and the children on the glider, see photo.
3. No trial course for the young ones. There are only two very short courses for the juniors and no trial. Once a child is stuck on one of them, 50% of the two is backed up and rendered useless. This is what happened when we were there. It took a long time for a staff to finally come and rescue the little guy.
4. Service - one of my kids were harnessed and brought to the course quickly. It took 5 minutes from our 11:30 session. The other one however was just "forgotten". My husband had to intervene and ask someone to demonstrate the course for him as he was left there for a long time after harnessed. He went on the course at 11:56 - 26 minutes after our session started.
4. Service - there is virtually no staff at the junior course. We saw a little guy peeing through his pants on the course, all over the boards. No one ever came to clean it up.
I would love a response from the team especially on the safety concerns and I will not recommend this to any one to use the junior course unless the safety concerns are fixed.



