Adventure park design

Adventure park design is the planning of a park of outdoor activities and rides around zones and a guest journey. Mast Parks designs adventure parks and plans the operations that keep them running.

Mast Parks offers adventure park design as part of Master Planning, its design service. The master plan is the blueprint of the park: architectural drawings, crowd movement, ride and attraction selection, theming placement and revisions until the client approves it.

This page explains what adventure park design involves, where Mast Parks has done this kind of work and what an owner should settle before starting. It stays at the level of what the work is for. The detailed method is part of Mast Parks' professional practice and is not published here.

See the park type hub: Adventure Parks. Before design, a feasibility study decides which park or concept suits the site. After the master plan, Architectural Designing produces the construction-level drawings.

An adventure park depends on its zoning and its guest journey. Activities differ in energy and risk. A guest on an ATV ride, a family at a tea tasting and a child at a play area want different things, and the park has to keep them apart where safety requires it and together where the family wants to be together.

The setting also matters. Adventure parks often sit in natural landscapes, which can bring attractions the park would otherwise have to build, and limits that the plan has to respect. An adventure park is designed with clear visibility, access and a regulated distance between activities, depending on the type of activity and the theming.

Guest flow

In an adventure park, safety and the guest journey are linked. The route a guest follows decides which activities they meet, in what order and with what supervision. A well-drawn journey keeps young children away from high-risk activities, keeps queues clear of paths and gives staff a clear view of each zone.

Attractions

The activities and rides are chosen to suit the site and the audience. At Jungle Adventures they include an ATV ride, a tea tasting experience and a restaurant, alongside a themed entry and characters. An adventure park is designed with clear visibility and access, and with a regulated distance between activities that depends on the type of activity and the theming.

Theming

Adventure parks can be themed as strongly as any other park. A theme gives the activities a story, so that a ride or a trail is part of an adventure. At Jungle Adventures the Jungle Book theme appears in the entry, the characters and the merchandise.

Drawings and revisions

The master plan for an adventure park is drawn as architectural drawings and sketches with exact measurements. The client reviews the plan, asks for changes and sees it revised until it is approved. Nothing moves to the construction-level drawings until the plan is approved.

Jungle Adventures. India's first themed adventure park based on the Jungle Book story: an operating park in a dense green tea estate surrounded by thick forest, themed using open IP. Mast Parks handled theming, master planning, zoning and guest journey design, naming and logos, merchandise, hiring and staff training, and operations and revenue planning. See the project.

Adventure activities in FECs. FEC Raipur includes go-karting and adventure activities, as part of an independent themed family entertainment centre.

See all adventure park projects.

An owner brings the site, with its survey and any documents about its boundaries and access, together with the budget and the concept agreed in earlier stages. The owner also brings their views on the plan as it develops, since the revisions depend on them.

The owner receives the approved master plan for the adventure park.

Adventure park design is used by private landowners, existing park owners, family businesses, government and tourism bodies, and temples and religious trusts. Some own land with natural character, such as a tea estate or a forest edge, and want to use it.

The master plan gives the owner a clear answer to these questions before any building starts:

• How the park is divided into zones by activity, risk and audience.
• The route a guest takes from entry to exit.
• Which activities suit the site and the audience.
• How the setting is used, and what it limits.
• Where the theme appears.

An adventure park planned activity by activity can mix high-risk and low-risk areas, leave staff without a clear view and put queues across paths. The setting may be wasted or damaged. Drawing the zones and the guest journey together, before anything is built, prevents this.

Many adventure parks sit on land that already has character: a tea estate, a forest edge, a hillside or a riverbank. The setting is an asset, and the plan should use it. At Jungle Adventures the tea estate gives the park a tea tasting experience that a park on a bare plot could not offer. The setting also brings limits. Slopes, trees, water and access roads all shape what can be built where, which is why the site study comes first.

Owners get more from this service when they arrive with answers, or at least with a view, on the points below. None of them needs to be settled in advance, and Mast Parks can help to settle them.

• How much land is available, and is it one piece?
• What has the feasibility work recommended for the adventure park?
• What is the budget range for the first phase?
• Which attractions matter most to your audience?
• What does the setting offer, and what does it limit?
• Are there features on the site, such as trees, water or slopes, that you want to keep?

• Master plan. The blueprint of the park: where everything goes.
• Guest circulation. How guests move through the park.
• Zoning. Dividing the park into areas for different kinds of attraction, theme or audience.
• Guest journey. The route a guest takes from entry through each experience to the exit.
• Open IP. A story or character free to use without a licence from a rights holder.

Mast Parks organises its work as 13 services in four stages, listed here in the order a project usually follows. Adventure park design (Master Planning) is shown in bold. An owner can start at any stage, but each stage builds on the one before it.

• Concept and Planning. Feasibility Studies, Financial Planning, Concept Creation, Theme Development.
• Design and Execution. Master Planning, Architectural Designing, Project Management Consultancy.
• Rides, People and Operations. Ride and Attraction Planning, Team Hiring and Training, Operations Planning.
• Launch and Growth. Marketing and Branding, Merchandising, Content and Events.

Most owners use several of these services together, and some use the full set from idea to opening. See all 13 on the services page.

Mast Parks works with the owner at each step. The owner approves the work before it moves to the next stage, and revisions are part of the process. The owner knows the site, the region and the ambition. Mast Parks brings experience of designing and delivering parks across eight park types. For an adventure park, the best results come when the two work as one team, with decisions made quickly and in the open.

To start a conversation, use the contact page. Mast Parks will ask about the site, the park you have in mind and where you are in the project.