Woodland Escape Rooms
Woodland Escape Rooms
Dive into a thrilling outdoor escape room experience where nature is both your ally and your adversary. This adventure combines essential survival skills with puzzle-solving, all set within the heart of a secret woodland location.
Your journey begins as our highly experienced Pippin & Gile bushcraft instructors guide to on a short walk to our secret private woodland location. On the way they will introduce the landscape and some of its secrets. Learn to identify wildlife signs and trees, discover some natural navigation — details that could prove crucial later. Listen closely, observe keenly, and prepare to see the woods in a whole new light.
Once you enter the woods, the real challenge begins. Following a knife safety demonstration, the escape room experience officially kicks off. It’s now up to you and your team to tackle a series of nature – inspired puzzles and hands-on tasks that require utilising knife techniques and creating fire by friction. With limited time to escape, you’ll need to rely on your resourcefulness, communication, and practical skills to progress. Don’t just survive — thrive by rising to the challenge.
This unique blend of bushcraft skills and escape room excitement will test your ability to adapt and collaborate under pressure. Whether you’re an outdoor enthusiast or a first-time adventurer, the experience is designed to be both exhilarating and accessible. No prior survival skills are needed—just a willingness to engage with the wild and a drive to succeed.
Successfully complete your tasks and your efforts will culminate in navigating your way to a charming local country pub. Relax, unwind, and celebrate with free drink vouchers. Be sure to get there before they run out. To make your return to civilisation even smoother, a prepaid taxi will be ready to take you back to your car or the nearest train station.
Gather your team of colleagues or friends and step up to the ultimate outdoor escape room challenge. With wilderness skills, teamwork, and problem-solving at the forefront, can you and your group escape the wild before time runs out? Book now to experience an unforgettable adventure that brings the natural world and excitement together in a way you’ve never seen before.
You will be met at Farthing Downs, a traditionally managed chalk grassland, just bursting with biodiversity. From the top of the Downs, you can often see the free roaming Red Sussex cows grazing against the skyline of Central London on the horizon. You’ll be guided on a half mile walk along paths through woodlands carefully managed for their rare and endangered dormouse population. Upon reaching our private woodland site, we will be based underneath a ex military parachute, that keeps the majority of the weather out. We will light a fire in the centre of this and suspend a kettle over it. You’ll be guided through a knife safety demonstration, and then the puzzles begin.
If you successfully succeed at part one of the escape you move onto part two. This is a walk, over species rich chalk grasslands, following navigational steps you’ll have uncovered. You’ll arrive at a traditional country pub, which serves a wide range of food, be sure to use your drinks tokens before the time runs out. The cost of a taxi (at a time of your choosing) for your group to return to the start or the nearest zone 6 train station is included in your escape if you make it in time.
Farthing Downs, your meeting point, is a treasure trove of wildlife abounding on traditionally managed chalk grasslands. Its history stretches back to the Bronze Age, and it offers panoramic views of London’s skyline.
Adjacent to Farthing Downs lies Happy Valley, creating an extensive area of chalk grassland that supports the largest population of greater yellow-rattle in London. In spring and summer, the grasslands come alive with vibrant orchids, bedstraws and scabious, painting the landscape with a riot of colour.
Explore a network of paths and signposted walks that weave through these remarkable open-access areas, located within Greater London and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For a taste of history, take a short detour to Chaldon Church, an 11th-century gem featuring a rare 12th-century doom painting. This striking artwork illustrates the judgment of souls and the consequences that await them. The church also serves tea and cakes on Sundays from 3.00 pm to 4:30 pm during the summer months—a perfect opportunity to enjoy a refreshing break steeped in history.
Upgrade your free celebratory drink with a hearty meal at The Fox. This traditional countryside pub offers a warm atmosphere with outdoor seating in the sunshine or a cozy fire indoors on cooler days. The menu includes a wide range of food and drinks, making it an ideal spot to toast your success or soothe the sting of a challenge unmet.
Come and experience the natural beauty, historical intrigue, and local hospitality of Farthing Downs and Happy Valley — an outdoor adventure right on London’s doorstep.
No, just clothing suitable for being outside in the British weather for about 3 hours. There is a parachute shelter at main camp that keeps the majority of the rain off.
Yes, we have a cassette toilet (and a straw bale urinal) in the woods and there are also public loos at the car park where we meet you.
We try to be as inclusive as possible. Due to the nature of our site, accommodating everyone’s needs is not always possible. Please call us to discuss your specific requirements.
Our escape times are restricted to daylight hours, so our availability reflects this.
Yes, dogs on short leads are welcome to come to the escape room. Our instructors will have a great time fussing them whilst you escape! The bar area and outside at the pub are also dog friendly.
We recommend expecting the whole escape room to take 3 hours. This includes the walk in, briefings and time to get to the pub. How long you spend there is up to you. Please give the taxi a call to arrange your inclusive journey back.
Our minimum age is 16. Maximum age there isn’t one. Under 18’s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult.
You will need to be comfortable walking over some uneven ground, and able to walk half a mile with regular stops to see things.
In very rare circumstances (eg. storms or lightning) we may have to cancel your escape room experience. If we do, we will offer you a 24 month gift card.
No. Because this course ends in a pub and you are walking over public land, please do not bring your own sharp tools with you. We will provide all the equipment you need to escape the woods.