Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade

Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade is unique in the Essex Outdoors family as it is located in the Brecon Beacons National Park, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the shadow of the Black Mountains.

This remote location really allows us to help you disconnect with the outside world for an unparralled experience with a great range of adventurous pursuits including:

Orienteering
Canoeing
Kayaking
Canyoning
Caving
Mountain Biking

Our staff and team of professional instructors will dedicate themselves to providing a great experience for you and your group, ensuring the highest standards are met at all times.

Our adventure centre has been specially built to provide great experiences and excellent accommodation with two residential buildings providing comfortable lodgings for 38 students and 6 staff.

We make the absolute most of the surrounding countryside rich in natural and historical treasures, running all of our activities in the midst of the amazing Welsh environment for school and youth groups, while also providing experiences for corporate teambuilding and groups of all shapes and sizes. Get in touch with the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade for an unforgettable experience.

With our location in the Brecon Beacons National Park, the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Caneoing can offer a fantastic adventure on the waterways of this amazing Area of Outstanding Beauty.

If this is your first time and you are looking for an introduction to this fun sport, or you want to develop greater technique with a paddle with fully qualified and experience canoeing instructors, then our passionate and dedicated team will be able to provide a great experience tailored to you and your group.

We offer training directly from the British Canoe Union, mixed with fun games and experiences in remarkable locations to provide an unforgettable experience for you regardless of whether you are planning a school group outing, a family outing or corporate teambuilding event. Simply contact us at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Caneoing to find out more.

Join our team of BCU qualified instructors as we tour the beautiful waterways of Wales and the Brecon Beacons National Park when you join us at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Kayaking.

An Area of Outstanding Beauty, the locations we use provide a fantastic kayaking experience for people of all ages and abilities.

We offer British Canoe Union courses for everyone from total novices to those looking to improve on their skills, either way you will finish the day with more confidence and ability on the water, opening more and more of the waterways of the United Kingdom for you to explore with your new found skills.

We will teach you everything you need to know to pilot your kayak with ease as we show you around this beautiful region, to find out more simply have a chat with the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Kayaking.

Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Canyoning is proud to be the only adventure centre in the Essex Outdoors family to offer this wet and wild day of adventure through the gorges of the Breacon Beacons National Park.

Canyoning, also known as Gorge Walking is an adrenaline soaked adventure that involves you trekking along the river bed, wading through the water, or simply floating down it at times before you climb and scramble over the obstacles including boulders, tight ledges and waterfalls. And for those with the courage we know all the best jumps to leap off and splash down into the fresh mountain water.

This is not an experience for the young ones, and can range from a fun but physically demanding experience to a whole days grind that you will definitely feel the next day! Speak with the friendly staff at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Canyoning to tailor your adventure.

The Brecon Beacons National Park is renowned in caving circles for great experiences that are easily accessible; the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade makes them even more so in this great day of adventure below the surface.

We will supply you with all the equipment you need and go through a comprehensive safety briefing before we take you below the ground, putting you to the test witih a range of subterranean challenges, or you can simply enjoy a fascinating tour through these beautiful caving systems.

The number and variety of the caves in this Area of Outstanding Beauty allows us to tailor your experience to you and your group, so from school groups to corporate teambuilding we can offer an experience that while testing you, is appropriate for you level of ability.

To plan your experience with us, have a chat with the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Caving.

A trip to our adventure centre would not be complete without taking in the amazing countryside of Wales and the Brecon Beacons National Park. Join as as we tour the is amazing region with Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Mountain Biking.

We are in the perfect position to offer fantastic mountain biking tours perfect for participants of all levels of experience throughout the Brecon Beacons. We will supply everything you need to get started including safety equipment and an experienced and professional instructor who will teach you everything you need to know about mountain biking, from off road techniques to equipment while ensuring everyone remains safe and having fun.

We have a great amount of experience planning activities for groups from school outings to corporate events and hen and stag weekends, get in touch with the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Mountain Biking to plan your experience with us.

Our unique location in the Breacon Beacons National Park offers Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Orienteering the perfect place with which to offer this exciting adventure race.

Joined by fully qualified and professional navigation and orienteering instructors, you will learn one of the most vital skills you can know in the great outdoors as you learn to properly read a map and plot your course using a compass.

Once you have the basics we will step the pace up a bit with a fun race where the race course is marked out as checkpoints on your map, you will need to find these checkpoints in sequence using the most direct and quickest route possible to be the first team to reach the finish line.

A great experience for school groups and corporate teambuilding alike, combining communcaiton and outdoor skills in a fun event that can be tailored to your own experience and ability, speak with the team at Essex Outdoors Maes y Lade Orienteering to plan your experience with us.