Read the latest news from around the zip line and adventure park industry. New park openings, incidents, supplier news, standards updates and more. Please email Karolyn Towle at [email protected] if you would like to submit information for a Park Brief.
The 27th Annual International Association for Challenge Course Technology Conference & Expo will take place Feb. 2-5, 2017, at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa in Savannah, Ga.
After five years and multiple lawsuits, the Fayette County Urban County Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a zoning change and approved a conditional-use permit for zip line canopy tours at Boone Creek Outdoors.
The Aerial Challenge Course at Oglebay Park opened earlier this week in Wheeling, W.Va.
The Edmonton City Council has given the green light to Snow Valley Resort’s plan to add an aerial obstacle course to the nearby Rainbow Valley campground.
Bradd Morse, founder of Canopy Tours Inc., was awarded a 2016 Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements award at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Quito, Ecuador.
For the sixth year in a row, fall protection (1926.501) is the most frequently cited OSHA standard.
A municipal court judge in Glenville, N.Y., has ruled that Mountain Ridge Adventure—a treetop challenge course and aerial zip line business—does not require a local amusement park permit to continue operating.
Refreshing Mountain Retreat & Adventure Center in Lancaster County, Pa., is adding two new zip lines, which are scheduled to open in spring of 2017.
