What's New At Tapnell Farm Park In 2025?

Tapnell Farm Park is one of our favourite places on the Isle of Wight

Tapnell Farm Park is an excellent time-filler. We've spent many hours bouncing on the bouncy pillow, pedalling round the go karts or zipping down the zip line whilst looking at the West Wight coastline.

Several new things have been added for the 2025 season, including these four:

1. The Tower Slide

The play barn has been re-jigged to make space for this whopper

The biggest new thing for 2025 is the Tower Slide, which is now in the play barn. You can pick from brown or black mats, depending on how fast you want to slide and you reach it by climbing up a series of cargo nets. I initially went for a brown sack, but realised my legs were too long for it and upgraded to the black sack.

For a long time, you could see the slide from the road in a storage area near to Tapnell Farm Park. The park had bought it from the Tower of London and were trying to figure out how to fit it into the rest of their attractions.

The barn's been redesigned with the bales of hay moving elsewhere and the slide taking up a big chunk of space at the far end.

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2. A bouncy obstacle course

I'm not sure if this is a permanent addition, but when we visited there was an inflatable obstacle course next to the Tower Slide.

Of course, I needed to test this out and can confirm that it was indeed a good lark. It's a good tantrum-avoidance option for younger children who aren't tall enough for the Tower Slide.

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3. The return of the climbing rope tower

This rope tower disappeared for a while but has returned to a new location

A few years ago, Tapnell Farm Park had a tower made out of ropes that was near to the go karts. I have fond memories of a Summer Shindig where we climbed up and took silhouetted photos as the sun set.

And so, I was delighted to see the rope tower has returned.

You won't be surprised to hear that I tested it out, and enjoyed the views from the top.

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4. Upgraded minigolf

The old Cow Putt has gone and is being replace with a new course

We don't have an opening date, but the new course is taking shape

The Cow Putt is not new and it's also not open yet. You might question why I've included it in this guide.

However, the old minigolf course has gone and is currently being replaced with a new one. 

The old course was pretty decent but it had been around for a while and was getting a bit worn. It had quite a homemade look to it, whereas most of the other stuff at Tapnell Farm Park looks a bit slicker and more modern.

I had a good nosey at the chap working on it during our most recent visit. There was even a putter lying around, presumably so he could occasionally take test shots to see if it was just the right level of difficulty so that it would lead to family arguments.

I considered offering some advice about where to include banks, curves and tunnels but I thought he was probably quite busy.