Navitat zipline canopy tour Navitat zipline sky bridge Christy & John from Texas get zip line instructions at Pigeon River Canopy Tours

You now have several zip line canopy tours to choose from in the Asheville area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. And no need to travel to the tropics to fly through the treetops. No experience is needed. Canopy Rangers provide all the necessary instruction and assistance and use state-of-the-art equipment, including helmets, full body harnesses, trolley, gloves, tether safety lines. There are two canopy rangers per group.

Navitat Canopy Adventures
Just 20 minutes from Asheville, Navitat is a world-class eco-adventure owned and operated by industry leaders. A 100% tree-based adventure, Navitat zipline canopy tour allows participants to experience a secluded mountain cove from high in the treetops via 10 ziplines, ranging from 120 to 1100 feet in length. Enjoy two rappelling experiences, walk across suspended sky bridges, and take in beautiful long-range views of the Blue Ridge Mountains from artfully crafted tree platforms. An approximately 3.5-hour tour on well over one mile of suspended cable. Click here to visit their Web site.

Pigeon River Canopy Tours
Zip over the Pigeon River and through the woods of the Great Smoky Mountains! Their Waterfall Gorge Canopy Tour takes you into the Smoky Mountain Creek Gorge exposing a lush forest of ferns, wildflowers, towering trees, rock cliffs, waterfall and moss covered bolder gardens. It includes 12 zipline sections between elevated platforms & treetop decks, four sky bridges. The Express Zip Tour has seven zips including two zips across the Pigeon River. Combine your zip rides with whitewater rafting or Jeep tours!
Read more about the Pigeon River Adventure Center.

Downtown Asheville Zipline
A new "Urban Zipline Canopy Adventure" near downtown Asheville with views from 50-60 feet above that highlight Asheville's scenic mountain ranges and the downtown landscape. Read more about Asheville Zipline Canopy Adventures.

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Thanks to John and Christy for letting us zip along!

Nantahala Gorge Canopy Tour
The first canopy zip line tour in the North Carolina Smokies is convenient to many southeastern cites like Atlanta, Charlotte and Asheville. Located on the southern edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Nantahala National Forest, adventure in the Smokies now moves a bit faster.

The 3-hour zip line flight is powered by gravity and a gradual 3 percent elevation change. The 1/2 mile air time Nantahala Gorge Canopy Tour takes you through multiple ecosystems, past hemlocks, into hardwoods, and through a deciduous forest packed with native flowering plants such as mountain laurel, dogwood, rhododendron, giant Frazier magnolia, rare umbrella magnolia, silver bells and many more. Your canopy ranger will point out these natural features and will also share with you some of the cultural history of the gorge.

The zip line is just one way to get to each section on the 20 acre course. Flyers use three Sky Bridges to get to the 11 zip line sections in the trees, slope side and elevated platforms.

The zip line course is located 12 miles west of Bryson City, NC (about 80 miles west of Asheville) at the Falling Waters Adventure Resort in the Nantahala River Gorge. Age and weight minimum is 10 years and 70 lbs. with a weight maximum of 250 lbs. Click here to visit their Web site.

Plumtree Canopy Tours
More than just a three hour zip line experience, enjoy 11 zips and 4 sky bridges while learning about the trees, wildlife habitats, community of Plumtree, the vast underground mines, the hey days of the early to mid-1900’s, and how this region of North Carolina mountains soaring 5,500 feet above sea level remains a world leader today. Plumtree flies you 60 feet above Isaac’s Branch Creek, launches you from“Rock & Roll” and zips you past trees and mountainsides on “The Zinger.”

Included with all Plumtree Canopy Tours is a fabulous lunch or the famous Sunday Brunch experience at the popular Vance Toe River Lodge. Morning canopy tours will have lunch after their tour and afternoon canopy tours will have their lunch before their tour. Located in the heart of western North Carolina’s High Country on US Hwy 19, 5 miles from Linville Gorge, 14 miles north of Spruce Pine, just a short drive from Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Boone, and Asheville. Plumtree is located in Avery County. Opens for the season on Memorial Day Weekend.