The hard part of a zipline is letting go of the platform.
What the ride costs, how long you are actually in the air, whether the weight limit rules you out, and which country puts the best thing under your boots. Reviews of every zipline and canopy tour you can book.
Four zipline days that make the case for the whole sport.
A Caribbean combo, a Yucatán cenote, a fenced native forest and a hillside course above the sea. What each one costs, and what the people strapped in before you made of it.
01The all-in-onePunta Cana Zipline Adventure with Buggies and Horseback RidingLines, buggies and horses in one Punta Cana morning. The shape of day that keeps a mixed group happy.
02The Yucatán dayCancun ATV Jungle Adventure, Ziplines, Cenote and Tequila TastingJungle track on a quad, a run of cables above it, then a cenote to get the dust off. Tequila at the end.
03The quiet forestRotorua Canopy Tours: 2.5Hour Native Forest Zipline AdventureNative Rotorua bush on suspended walkways, where the guides drop their voices because the birds came back.
04Over the waterTree Limin’ Extreme ZiplineA hillside course on St Thomas, run tree to tree, with the Caribbean behind every landing.
Six countries have built most of the world’s zipline, and they built it over different things.
Mexico strings its lines over sinkholes. Thailand runs them through teak canopy. Turkey sells them inside a rafting day, the Dominican hills drop them towards the sea, Hawaii hangs them off waterfalls and New Zealand fenced a forest around them.
In Mexico the zipline usually finishes in a cenote.
Quintana Roo is a slab of limestone with the roof fallen in at intervals, and the adventure parks built above it run cable straight over the holes. Three shapes of Mexican day, and what it costs to board each one.
The ATV-and-zipline combo is the most booked day in the sport.
Operators in Mexico, Turkey and the Caribbean sell the same shape of morning: a track on four wheels, a run of lines over the trees, water at the end. These three carry more riders than anything else on the site.
The zipline days more riders take than any other.
Every zipline review →The lines with the longest queue of people who have already been down them. What each costs, and what it actually involves once the harness is on.
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Koloa Zipline in Kauai
Fly across eight zipline tracks near Koloa, above native forest and Waita Reservoir. A guide-led, small-group tour includes gear, safety instruction, snacks, and optional hands-free moves such as Starfish and upside-down flight. Expect a short uphill walk on uneven ground, a 280-pound weight limit, and about three hours from check-in to return.
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
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Puerto Vallarta Best Zipline Canopy + Tequila and Speed Boat Ride
from $120
What a zipline costs, from one long line to a whole day out.
Every ride on the site grouped by price. The cheap end is a couple of lines in a park; the top end is a full day with transport, lunch and four other activities bolted on.
Park courses, one big line, and the short combos sold off a resort strip.
The standard half-day: pickup, eight or ten lines, water or lunch at the end.
Full days, private groups, and the cables strung across something famous.
- 1Koloa Zipline in Kauaifrom $169
- 2Marina Ziplining with Photos, Video and Mealfrom $190
- 3Oahu’s North Shore: 8-Line Zipline Adventurefrom $203
A zipline can turn you away at the harness. Check this before you pay.
Every course runs a scale and a tape. There is a minimum weight, because a light rider stalls halfway down the cable and has to be hauled in, and a maximum the brake is rated for. Add an age floor, closed shoes, tied hair, nothing loose in a pocket. Wind and lightning shut a line at an hour’s notice, and most operators would rather move you than run it.
Three rides you only get at the end of a cable.
A mountain view comes with a chairlift. A landing in a sinkhole, a kilometre of steel at seventy miles an hour and a seat swung out over a gorge do not.
The Record Spans
A small number of operators have built spans long enough that you are in the air for most of a minute and fast enough that the seat comes with a brake at the far end. They tend to come in pairs, one run out and one run back, with a truck or a cable car to get you up to the launch. Slovenia and Colorado both claim records; the Alpine ones are the ones with the drop underneath.
- 1Canyon Učja — The Longest Zipline Park in Europe★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 605 reviews
- 2Bovec Zipline – canyon Ucja – the longest zipline in Europe★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 363 reviews
- 3Ziplines Adventure – The Fastest & Best ones Crossing the Canyon★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 259 reviews
The Cenote Drop
A cenote is a collapsed cave roof with groundwater sitting in the bottom, and the Yucatán has thousands of them. Parks near Cancun and Tulum run their last line straight over the opening: some let you off on the far rim, the better ones release the trolley and drop you in. The water holds the same cool temperature all year and you swim out to a ladder.
- 1Cancun ATV Jungle Adventure, Ziplines, Cenote and Tequila Tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 4,873 reviews
- 2ATV Adventure, Interactive Bridges, Ziplines, Cenote and Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,903 reviews
- 3Cancun Best ATV Tour, Ziplines and Cenote Swim with Lunch★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,406 reviews
The Valley Swing
Bali made these famous and the rest of the tropics copied it: a seat on two long ropes, a push off the edge, and an arc out over a gorge or a rice terrace. It is zipline rigging with the forward travel taken out, which is why it is nearly always sold at the same park, on the same ticket, half an hour after the lines.
- 1Plettenberg Bay: Bungee Jumping with Zipline and Sky Walk★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 506 reviews
- 2Bali/Ubud: Swing, Zipline & SkyBike Rice Terrace Adventure★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 382 reviews
- 3Half-Day Zipline and Jungle Swing Adventure★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 352 reviews
Four zipline days that will not wait for you to land.
Most cable can be booked from the hotel the night before. These four run on seasons, scales and small group sizes that close out weeks ahead of your flight.
- 01Niagara Falls, Canada: Zipline to The FallsThe line over the gorge runs from spring into autumn and shuts for the winter. Out of season there is nothing to book.
- 02Marina Ziplining with Photos, Video and MealEvery rider is weighed at the launch deck, and the slots go in timed blocks. The evening ones fill first.
- 03Rotorua Canopy Tours: 2.5Hour Native Forest Zipline AdventureSmall groups only, through fenced forest, with a limited number of departures a day. The morning ones go first.
- 04Zipline Croatia: Cetina Canyon Zipline Adventure from OmisAn open canyon line: it runs spring to autumn, and the guides call it off whenever the wind gets up.
Some of the best cable in the world is strung across a waterfall.
Jamaica, Hawaii, the Dominican hills and northern Thailand all run lines over or alongside falling water, which is why so many of these days finish with a swim instead of a car park.
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By country, and by the town you fly out of
By the kind of day it turns into
Start on a park course, finish on a kilometre of steel over a canyon.
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