TreeGO Moncton – Arbre en Arbre Moncton

I’d been dying to go to TreeGo for a couple of years now, and I finally had the opportunity during the recent long weekend. And was it ever worth the wait! It was definitely worth an overnight stay in Moncton, and was by far the most fun thing I’ve done there.
TreeGo is a series of four courses that combine obstacle courses and zip lines.
I’m not afraid of heights, so that wasn’t a problem for me. But if you have a crippling fear in that department, this experience isn’t for you — you are HIGH UP. That said, it was a bit more strenuous than I anticipated. At times, my little legs had to stretch farther than I thought they could to reach between logs dangling in the air, and the day served as a reminder that I could stand to increase my upper body exercises at the gym. I won’t lie — I was pretty sore the next day.
One thing that threw me off? After a brief training session, you’re on your own! Yes, make sure you hook yourself onto those zip lines correctly because there’s no one around to check your work.
There are a few things you need to know:
— It’s possible to make a reservation, and it does get busy later in the day.
— There’s a separate course for kids, but if yours are responsible and tall enough (can reach 5’11″ with their hands up) they can hit the real thing. There were some tween-​age girls in front of me who breezed through the whole thing like it was no big deal.
— If you’re a girl, don’t wear short-​shorts. They’d be uncomfortable with the harness gear, so you’re better off with something like yoga capris.
— Don’t drink a lot of water. That third course took me quite a while, and sometimes you end up waiting for quite a while if one of the platforms gets backed up. No one (especially a girl) wants a sudden urge to pee when stranded on a platform eighty feet in the air.
Overall, TreeGo was an incredibly fun and unique experience. I’d never done anything like it before, and would gladly return!

Hands down one of the coolest ways to spend an afternoon in Atlantic Canada. It’s a bit of a drive for anyone but those living in New Brunswick, but it’s completely worth grabbing a night at a Moncton hotel, putting on your big boy pants, and taking treehouse fun to the extreme.
Twelve of us drove up in a convoy of three cars specifically to slap on our harnesses and spend four hours up in the trees. Thirty feet up, you get to zip-​line, cross rope bridges, swinging logs, rope nets, and more-​getting an incredible view, an even more incredible core workout, and one heck of a personal challenge to overcome.
It’s not for those afraid of heights but otherwise you can manage your way through no matter what your fitness level… within reason. Be prepared to work harder than you think you can but to have even more fun at the same time.

I like adventure. And TreeGo’s quite the adventure!
If you haven’t heard of it, TreeGo’s a chain of locations across Canada that are essentially a mix of rope courses, obstacles and zip lines. It’s entirely self-​directed. Once you’ve completed a group training session, you’re pointed in the right direction and off you go!
Here’s what you need to know:
* Arrive early; I’m told it gets quite busy later in the day. I was there just after they opened on a Saturday morning and still had to wait.
* Dress comfortably; you’ll be contorting into some odd positions so you want to wear something you feel good in but also don’t mind getting tree sap on. As the previous reviewer mentioned, bike gloves are not a bad idea.
* Don’t drink too much before you go; once you’re on the course, you can’t easily stop. There are breaks between courses but you have to wait for those in front of you to finish before you get there.
* Bring patience; there is a lot of «hurry up and wait» as you wait for someone to finish ahead of you.
* Save your energy; Courses 1 – 3 are not terribly difficult but the final course kicks it up several notches.
For those of you with kids, there is a smaller kids’ course and lots of older kids were participating when I was there. However, there are lots of moments where they are on their own and you can’t really help them. If your children aren’t daring and independent, this is not the activity for them.
One of the only things I don’t like? They lose points for their Web site — automatically playing video/​audio that I can’t disable? Fail!

On a quick 3-​day trip back to Moncton this summer for my 10-​year high school reunion, some old high school friends & I decided to give TreeGo a try one afternoon before a BBQ. We had a BLAST! We spent the afternoon swinging from tree to tree, challenge to challenge, zipping back and forth! Imagine a zip line or outdoor adventure course — this is that, but amped up like 100 times of fun!
Ok, so the nitty gritty… EVERYONE is required to do the training session (about 15 minutes) before proceeding to the course, because you lead yourself through the course! There are no guides! Don’t let this sway you — if you have trouble, you just cry out «Guide!» from the trees and one will come to your rescue. They have both a youth course and an extended 4-​part adult course.
The price was reasonable — I think $ 30 or something — they provide all the harnesses & climbing equipment you’ll need.
A FEW THINGS TO NOTE BEFORE YOU EMBARK ON AN ADVENTURE AT TREEGO:
1) Make sure you bring some biking gloves or something like that if you intend on doing all four of the courses.
2) If you do all 4 courses, be prepared to spend 2 – 3 hours to complete them — there’s not a lot of waiting, but it’s an EXTENSIVE and FUN course… beware — you will be tired at the end! So don’t plan any strenuous activities immediately following a date with TreeGo!
3) Don’t drink anything before you go up — there’s no bathroom in the trees & you don’t want to rain on anyone as you zip on by! haha
I’m pretty sure this is a seasonal activity — check their website for exact dates, but I think it’s like April — October or something like that.
Definitely a fun experience — hard to believe something like that is nestlted right in Centennial Park in Moncton! I thought for sure it’d be out somewhere like Magnetic Hill! It’s a Moncton MUST!