Take a Swing at Open High Nights
Get into high gear and enjoy the rush at free Open High Nights with Southern Adventures! Students, faculty and staff are invited to try high challenge elements and the zipline on select nights on Georgia Southern’s Statesboro campus.
Explore Open High Nights
Brave the Elements
Pick the best challenges for your outing at The Southern Adventures Challenge Course. Activities accommodating your team’s needs and goals can improve communication, problem-solving, leadership, trust and more essential skills to help your group soar.
Level 1: Low Elements
Put your team to the test in simple low elements without getting too far off the ground. Low ropes elements feature challenges based on balancing, organizing, and other accessible activities.
Level 2: High Elements
Lift up your team in exciting high elements 40+ feet above the ground! High ropes elements include the bucket bridge, pirate’s crossing, catwalk, multi-vine and the zipline for fun team-building.
Level 3: Accessory Elements
Raise the bar for an electrifying challenge 40+ feet above the ground! Accessory elements include thrilling attractions like the giant’s ladder, the flying squirrel, the pamper pole and the zipline.
Bonus Level: Group Development
Foster a fun environment indoors or outdoors for all ages in group development games! Try out special activities and icebreakers to help your groups become more comfortable with one another, including games with verbal and nonverbal communication, fun problem-solving and soft competition.
Reserve Your Challenge
Get your team-building off the ground at The Southern Adventures Challenge Course. Our team will make your challenge experience tailored for your team!
Submit Your Reservation
Challenge Course Policies
Sign the CRI Waiver
Sign the Challenge Course Informed Consent Waiver
The group leader of your challenge experience is a representative of your group who submits the reservation and coordinates and communicates with the other members of the group.
The group leader must be present on the day of the challenge experience. If the group leader will be absent, they must contact Southern Adventures staff before programming to appoint a new group leader and to provide the new group leader’s contact information.
Participants at The Southern Adventures Challenge Course must follow guidelines to ensure their challenge experience is safe and fun.
All participants may not wear any jewelry during programming including but not limited to necklaces, earrings, watches, rings, studs and nose rings. Participants are responsible for storing their own items during their experience. Participants must also have long hair tied up and back. Excessively short pants and tank top style clothing are not permitted, and weather appropriate clothing is recommended.
Participants must wear closed toe athletic shoes with shoelaces. Prohibited footwear includes but is not limited to laceless shoes or boots, boat shoes, strapped sandals, slip-on shoes, cowboy boots and thin-soled shoes. Running or training type soles are recommended.
Southern Adventures staff reserves the right to determine the safety of each participant’s clothing before taking part in the challenge experience. Candy, gum, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs are not allowed at The Southern Adventures Challenge Course.
All participants are expected to pay attention to Southern Adventures staff and follow their directions and safety procedures. Southern Adventures staff reserve the right to bar participants from continuing the program and to cancel programming at any point to ensure the safety of all participants and staff.
All group participants meet at the Southern Adventures Center located at the back of the Recreation Activity Center. A small parking lot is available to participants on Old Register Road.
On weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., parking will be unavailable for anyone without a current Georgia Southern parking pass anywhere at the RAC.
Program reservations for The Southern Adventures Challenge Course must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the desired program date. There must be a minimum of 10 participants in a group unless otherwise approved by Southern Adventures staff. Reservations are confirmed via an email to the group leader. Southern Adventures staff will contact the group leader if another date and time must be selected.
Groups must arrive for their program before the scheduled part time detailed in the confirmation email. Participants are recommended to arrive 15 minutes before the start of programming. Participants who are at least 10 minutes late will not be allowed to participate.
The group leader may request to change the program time at least two days in advance, and Southern Adventures will try to accommodate time changes as much as possible.
All participants must read, sign and submit required forms before their challenge experience. If a participant is under the age of 18 years old, a parent or legal guardian must read, sign and submit the required forms on the participant’s behalf. If a participant does not have a signed form, they will not be allowed to participate with no exceptions.
On-campus groups participating in group development activities only are not required to sign additional forms. Participants in off-campus groups must sign both the CRI Standard Release form and the Challenge Course Informed Consent form.
Groups must contact Southern Adventures to cancel a reservation as soon as they are able.
Most low challenge course programs have both indoor and outdoor space available in the event of inclement weather. Reservations made with shorter notice during busier operation hours may not have an indoors option in the event of inclement weather. If there is no indoors option available, programming may be cancelled for inclement weather, and there will be an opportunity to reschedule the challenge experience.