CAPTAIN ZIPLINE, LLC Information

Captain Zipline researched this concept and vetted the few stellar builders of aerial adventure parks. And then we chose a world-renowned aerial park design firm. Initially, the consultants planned to build the aerial challenge course on a mesa, atop the canyon and amongst the zipline tour Guide Shack and zipline training areas. This was a solid plan...but, we thought, "Wow, wouldn't it be even better and more dramatic if we built this down inside the canyon?" And that's when things got really complicated. "How are you going to set 60-foot poles down in that canyon," some 150 feet below the rim?, we were asked. After further research and consultation with even more construction experts, we found the way-with a 100-ton crane, one-by-one the poles were carefully lowered into the canyon and set in 8-foot footers. Within several few weeks, the backbone of our Canyon Aerial Course was in place. Once the poles were in the ground, the team then began the construction of a series of small platforms; these were attached at multi-levels to the wooden poles and along the cliffs in our rugged canyon. The decks were then connected by cables, ropes, and boards forming many different challenging pathways. A safety lifeline was installed throughout the entire length of the courses. This would be the 'life-line' of our harnessed guests as they traversed between the platforms. By the end of this building process, over 120 different obstacles between poles and cliffs were joined together to create the largest aerial park in the Western US. This massive, awe-inspiring fun-complex looked perfectly situated in the belly of our canyon. Not only that, it was a good fit with our other adventure venues-the now-old-hat but still world-class attraction zipline and the via ferrata that coursed along the canyon face.