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SAM Magazine—Stowe, Vt., May 20, 2022—The Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration (VOSHA) investigation of the Sept. 23, 2021, death of Stowe Mountain Resort, Vt., ZipTour employee Scott Lewis, 53,…
Treetop Trekking 1000 Islands is scheduled to open May 14, located between Gananoque and Brockville on the 1000 Islands Parkway in Ontario at the site formerly operated as Skywood Eco…
As part of a recent expansion, TradeWinds Island Resorts in Saint Petersburg, Fla., unveiled the Zing Ray Zip, a three-story-tall dual zip line that takes guests soaring above the beach.…
In an effort to draw tourists to Kenya’s Mount Longonot National Park, zip lines will be installed across the mountain’s 1.1-mile-wide crater. Kenya’s tourism cabinet secretary Najib Balala sees the…
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…
