Eight hundred metres of cable. Pick your canyon.
What a zipline day actually costs, how long you spend on the cable, and whether the cenote swim or the quad ride is the part you are really paying for.
Four zipline days people fly for: Kauai, Rotorua, Niagara, Cancún.
The cable runs almost everywhere now. These four are the ones worth planning a trip around, with what each costs and what riders say about the drop.
01The Kauai runKoloa Zipline in KauaiEight lines over an old sugar plantation on the south shore, with a rope bridge and a swing between them.
02The forest oneRotorua Canopy Tours: 2.5Hour Native Forest Zipline AdventureNative podocarp forest above Rotorua, two and a half hours, and the guides spend half of it talking about the birds.
03Over the gorgeZipline To The Falls in Niagara Falls, CanadaStraight out over the Niagara gorge from the Canadian rim, landing at the foot of the falls.
04The Cancún comboCancun ATV Jungle Adventure, Ziplines, Cenote and Tequila TastingQuad through the jungle, a run of lines, a cenote swim and a tequila stop, all inside fifty dollars.
Six countries that built their zipline parks properly.
Jungle cable in the Yucatán, canyon crossings in Dalmatia, waterfall lines on the Big Island, the Antalya combo day, Thai treetop courses and the Punta Cana adventure parks. Six places to start, and the best ride in each.
The zipline is rarely the whole day: quad, cenote, cable, lunch.
The pattern repeats from Cancún to Antalya. An hour on a quad or in a raft, a run of lines, a swim, then lunch under a palapa. It is why a forty-nine dollar Mexican day out beats a two-hundred dollar single-park ticket on almost every measure except the length of the cable.
In the Yucatán the zipline comes with a cenote and a quad bike.
Three ways to spend a Mexican zipline day, what each costs to board, and which resort strip it leaves from.
The zipline tours more riders book than anything else.
Every zipline tour reviewed →The lines with the longest queues, from a Kauai plantation run to the cable strung down Dubai Marina, and what each one costs to get on.
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Adventure Bundle: Monkeyland, Ziplines & Buggies Punta Cana
Review of Punta Cana’s 9.5-hour Monkeyland, 12-line zipline, buggy, river swim, lunch, and Dominican culture adventure.
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Koloa Zipline in Kauai
from $169
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Punta Cana Zipline Adventure with Buggies and Horseback Riding
from $100
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Cancun ATV Jungle Adventure, Ziplines, Cenote and Tequila Tasting
from $49
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Rotorua Canopy Tours: 2.5Hour Native Forest Zipline Adventure
from $123
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Outdoor Ziplining and UTV Adventure from Los Cabos
from $139
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ATV Adventure, Interactive Bridges, Ziplines, Cenote and Lunch
from $49
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Marina Ziplining with Photos, Video and Meal
from $190
What a zipline day costs, from eleven dollars to six hundred.
Every priced ride on the site, grouped by what one adult pays. The combo days sit at the bottom; the private waterfall parks sit at the top.
The Antalya and Yucatán combo days: raft or quad, a run of lines, lunch thrown in.
Single-park tickets and the long courses. Rotorua, Dubrovnik, El Yunque, Chiang Mai.
Hawaiian waterfall parks, the Dubai Marina cable and the private guided runs.
- 1Koloa Zipline in Kauaifrom $169
- 2Marina Ziplining with Photos, Video and Mealfrom $190
- 3Oahu’s North Shore: 8-Line Zipline Adventurefrom $203
Every zipline has a weight range, and it is not on the booking page.
Operators run a floor as well as a ceiling, usually somewhere between thirty and a hundred and twenty-five kilos: the trolley needs a minimum to reach the far platform and the brake needs a maximum to stop you. Closed shoes are compulsory almost everywhere, most parks set a minimum age between six and ten, and wind or lightning closes a line with no notice. Ask before you pay, not at the platform.
Three ziplines that are not just another canopy course.
A canyon park on the Slovenian border, a crossing above the Cetina gorge, and courses that string walking between the flying. Different problem, different cable.
The Longest Lines
Bovec strung a park down the Učja canyon on the Slovenian side of the Italian border and calls it the longest in Europe. Elsewhere the record chasing is about speed rather than length, and Colorado runs a six-line course that claims the fastest in the state. Operators publish the numbers because riders pick on them.
- 1Rocky Mountain 6-Zipline Adventure on CO Longest and Fastest!★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 758 reviews
- 2Canyon Učja — The Longest Zipline Park in Europe★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 605 reviews
- 3Bovec Zipline – canyon Ucja – the longest zipline in Europe★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 363 reviews
Across the Cetina Gorge
The Cetina cuts a green trench inland from Omiš and the cable crosses it eight times, the highest span a long way above the water. Three hours including the drive up the hill, and the last line is the one people talk about afterwards. It closes when the bura wind gets up, which in spring is often.
- 1Zipline Croatia: Cetina Canyon Zipline Adventure from Omis★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,248 reviews
- 23-Hour Cetina Canyon Zipline Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,050 reviews
- 3Canyon Učja — The Longest Zipline Park in Europe★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 605 reviews
Skywalks and Rope Bridges
Some parks string the walking between the flying: a suspension bridge over the same drop you crossed at speed a minute earlier, or a caged skywalk out to the launch platform. It slows the day down and it is usually the part people remember, which is why the longer courses build more of it than cable.
- 18-Zipline & Suspension Bridge Waterfall Adventure★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 914 reviews
- 2Plettenberg Bay: Bungee Jumping with Zipline and Sky Walk★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 506 reviews
- 3World B+ (Zipline 18 Platforms + Roller + Sky Walk with World Set Menu )★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 218 reviews
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By kind of line — canyon, canopy, waterfall or combo
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