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.
Guinness World Records certified a new 5,807-foot-long (1,770 meters) zip line in Khasab, a port city on northern Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, as the longest zip wire over water. The dual…
Welsh adventure park operator Zip World opened a new gravity-powered “spiral suspension track” at its Penrhyn Quarry location in Bethesda, Wales, this May. The attraction, Aero Explorer, starts roughly 115…
The Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) has promoted events director Melissa Webb to temporary director of operations, effective immediately. Webb will assume responsibility for the day-to-day operation and management…
The Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) is looking for industry members to share their expertise and knowledge at the 34th annual International ACCT Conference and Expo. Potential presenters are…
The UK’s new 270 Climbing Park has opened the first phase of what will be “one of the most comprehensive climbing gyms in the UK,” it claims, but that hasn’t…
The Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) is changing its Professional Vendor Member (PVM) program into a new Accredited Vendors program. The PVM program is a voluntary process in which…
Go Ape will begin construction on a new high ropes course in Chelmsford, Essex, this spring with an anticipated opening date in July 2023. The park application to build the…
The Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) board chair, Korey Hampton, will be holding “open office hours” during her tenure. ACCT members are invited to call into a Zoom meeting…
