Neighbors of Riverbend Park in Great Falls are clashing with county officials over the possible addition of a three-acre ropes course on the 418-acre park. The Fairfax County Parks Authority entered a contract with the British “treetop adventure” company Go Ape in July to build an obstacle course that includes ladders, bridges and pulleys suspended on wires above the park’s poplar trees.

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