Largest New Zipline In Texas Opens March 1 — Wimberley Zipline Adventure, Eco Walking Tour
Wimberley Zipline Adventure, Eco Walking Tour
Wimberley, Texas Adding to a new environmentally friendly trend in vacation fun (similar to the bungee jumping craze of days gone by) Wimberley Zipline Adventures is a walking tour and thrill ride high between two mountains where you glide on a series of five wire cables that start at 250 ft. and go to 875 ft. long at up to 100 ft. above the ground with 15-mile views.
The owner, Michael Robinson, said, “My wife and business partner, Kristy, and I went on vacation to Belize last year and rode on a zip line canopy tour there. It was so much fun, and showed so much of the diverse ecology of Belize, that we decided to start a zipline of our own here in Wimberley, Texas.”
The Robinsons teamed up with Jim and Cheryl Turner of Wimberley. The Turners bring their extensive construction background and their sensitivity to local environmental issues based on construction footprints. Jim Turner told the local city council last spring, “I am very impressed that the tour has very low impact on the land and the business uses no electricity (other than batteries) and has no running water or septic system.”
The property borders Pierce Creek which is a wet weather creek on a solid limestone bottom.
The tour starts with flight school where they outfit you with the proper gear of a mountaineering harness, lanyard, and pulley system to teach you the techniques for safe high flying fun. After flight school its off to an Eco walking tour that explains the local geography and tells of the plant and animal life, a short history of the Wimberley area itself, the ranch that the tour sits on, and other interesting facts while you gaze at wonderful 15-mile views of the valley below.
Wimberley is a Texas destination that entertains hundreds of thousands of visitors a year with all kinds of environmentally friendly fun. They have crystal clear water with the Blanco River and the Blue Hole on Cypress Creek.
Wimberley Zipline Adventures is a appointment-only event and starts March 1. Appointment times start at 9 a.m. and go every two hours with the last start at 3 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. Sunday hours start at 11 a.m. The cost is $60 per person. The minimum age is 10 years old to senior citizens; as long as their customers can walk unassisted
