Rock Up Rushden Lakes
Climbing & High Ropes · Rushden, Northamptonshire
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Open now — closes 7.30pm
🏠 Indoor5–88–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendly🛝 Soft playBirthday partiesBooking requiredSensory-friendly sessionsToddler sessionsMemberships availableSchool holiday activities
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Baby changing
- Birthday parties
Access & inclusion
- Relaxed / SEN sessions
- SEN friendly
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Rock Up Rushden Lakes has over 25 climbing walls with more than 75 varied challenges, ranging from beginner zones to technical routes. The venue includes a Vertical Drop Slide, Stairway to Heaven, and a Traverse Wall, plus multi-storey soft play areas for younger children. Climbing sessions last around 90 minutes, including a 30-minute safety briefing; climbers use automatic belay devices and harnesses are provided. Toddler Climb & Play sessions are available for children up to 5 years, and standard climbing starts from age 4. Birthday parties, group sessions and specialised SEN and Home Educator climbing are also offered. Everything is indoors, making it available year-round whatever the weather.
Soft play is stay-and-play on term-time weekdays, and about 2 hours at weekends and in school holidays. Regular sessions: Toddler Climb mornings; Calm Climbing (SEND-friendly) on the first Monday of the month; Home Ed Hangouts before 3pm in term time; Climb for 9 pounds on the first Wednesday of the month. Closed-toe shoes required and long hair tied back. Party ratio is one adult spectator per four children.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Plasters
- Hand sanitiser
- Lunch boxes
- Bum bag
- Portable phone charger
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
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