With seven batting cages, three pitching mounds, an arena and an arcade area, Ultimate Sports and Training is the perfect place for the sports enthusiast.
This fully air-conditioned and heated facility offers dodgeball tournaments, baseball clinics, a baseball hitting school and one-on-one individual lessons for baseball, strength conditioning and speed. The center also has batting cage. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are encouraged.
Products sold on-site include bats, gloves, cleats, pocket radar, power bags, wrist roller, combat bats as well as stadium murals.
Ultimate Sports also hosts birthday parties which include the choice of supervised sports time, arcade time, and a party room (one of three) to celebrate in. In the last two years, the center has hosted more than 3,400 parties.
Nomads Adventure Quest is an indoor family fun center. It features attractions such as billiards, arcade games, mini-golf, bowling, laser tag and inflatables, and hosts birthday parties, banquets and corporate team building events.
More than a decade after opening, Prime Climb continues to build on its core-base of seasoned climbing aficionados. You can rent gear if needed. Prime Climb does offer limited lessons for newbies. There are also private lessons. It runs specials and discounts, and hosts events, clinics and demonstrations.
The Haddam Neck Fair Association is the governing body of the annual Haddam Neck Fair. The county fair offers a range of family-friendly activities. Guests can participate in contests, rides, a petting zoo, arts and crafts projects and the choosing of the best Haddam Neck Apple Pie.
If you're a beginning golfer looking to work on your swing or a dedicated pro and would like to keep your skills sharp on the off-season, Four Seasons Golf provides a place to play indoors. The five golf simulators come loaded with 39 different virtual courses from around the world. Visitors can hit the ball at a screen projecting a view of the golf course and sensors will simulate the path of the ball going through the air, giving the players a chance to shoot again. An 18 hole game costs participants $23.
Located in Downtown Branford, right next to the green, Fired Up is a fun and exciting place for adults. This is the place where creativity can be ignited, pun intended, through painting and designing pottery. It's a novel place to come for a date or with friends.
Students and experts, old and young alike are welcome at Fencers School. Group and private lessons are available. Instructors offer summer fencing clinics, equipment rentals, and open fencing practice for students. Instructor/owner Matthew Catino is accomplished himself in the sport and has had many students go on compete at the college level as well.
Stone Age Rock Gym is located on Adams Street in Manchester, down the street from the Buckland Hills Mall.
KevinWatts, owner of Stone Age Rock Gym since 1997, is a professional rock climbing instructor. He runs the facility on 100 percent clean energy and also hosts clean-ups at different rock climbing sites across Connecticut. The Stone Age Rock Gym instructors take groups to New Hampshire and Maine as well and offer instruction in all aspects of rock climbing.
Visit the gym's website for more information on instruction and outdoor guided tours.
USA Wildcats All Star Cheer & Dance is a cheerleading program which offers training for children ages two through 18. The USA Wildcats facility features a tumble track and a 54-foot-by-54-foot springboard floor and there are 12 coaches who are USASF safety certified. It offers cheerleading and tumbling classes and camps and oversees coed and all-girl competitive teams.
There isn't anything else quite like Whippersnapper's Play Gym in Cheshire. It's not exactly a child care facility or a gym, but a place for children of various ages to learn and develop important skills.
Depending on the specific class, children learn such things as fine motor skills, how to interact with parents and other children, how to express themselves through music and basic gymnastic movements. One class is even devoted to pure fun through several mini camp activities, while another is all about cheerleading. Better yet, the facility offers birthday party packages filled with fun activities.
