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The new Upla Adventure Park is opening outside Montreal on June 4. A fully netted attraction, accessible to participants ages 3 to 99, Upla has been billed as the first…
Vail Resorts (VR) has seemingly cut zip lining from the 2022 summer offerings at its ski resorts, including Vail Mountain and Breckenridge, Colo., and Park City Mountain, Utah. As reported…
Adventure Park Insider—Longmont, Colo., April 4, 2022—Bill Zimmermann will succeed Shawn Tierney as executive director of the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT), effective today, April 4, 2022. To ensure…
Petzl has issued a recall of the TRAC CLUB adventure park trolleys due to a risk of breakage of the black rear plate that could cause a fatal fall. As…
A child on a zip line in Costa Rica rode into an unlikely obstruction on the line: a sloth. Fortunately, neither child or sloth were injured in the encounter, which…
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians for five violations related to the death of Zip Zoom Zipline employee Joaquin Romero, who…
Zipit Forest Adventures plans to invest about €2.5 million ($2.75 million) to roll out new high ropes courses in Kildare, Ireland, and at Coillte forest parks, including at the popular…
Last October, Tristram and Rebecca Mayhew passed ownership of their UK-based Go Ape and its 35 sites to the company’s 1,000 staff. According to a lengthy report in The Telegraph,…
