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This Kauai Zipline category page is one of the most popular pages on our website. Each Kauai zipline is fun, exciting, found in a beautiful and exotic location and is an overall great Kauai experience. These Kauai zipline tours are very popular and often sell out well in advance. Obviously you should try to make your bookings early, but beforehand...... Find out everything you need to know about Kauai ziplines such as the weight and age restrictions, how good of shape you should be in, how long it takes, how many zipline courses are available, how soon you should be making reservations, what are the different types of courses, how long the ziplines are and how fast you will be traveling.
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Tom's Tips - Kauai Zip-line Tours
Kauai has followed a general pattern over the course of years regarding activities of an adventurous nature. Kauai was the very first island to offer helicopter tours of any kind. With other activities such as ATV rides and Zip-line adventures, Kauai was not the first island to offer these but Kauai was the island that jumped on both of these industries and really made them popular in the state. Ziplining on Kauai was the most notable example. The first island to offer one was a small course in upcountry Maui but almost immediately afterward a bunch of new courses blossomed on Kauai. This was really the genesis of the zip-line frenzy that took Hawaii by storm.
The vast majority of zip-line courses offered on Kauai are of super quality and offer visitors the very best in zip-line adventures. Any one of these courses could be held up with regards to quality to any other location in the world. Most of these course are ones that traverse, in many cases hundreds of feet over valleys, canyons, gorges and streams. A much lesser percentage of these zip-line courses take to the 'tree-tops' and zip through the high forests. One of the companies that exclusively specializes in zip-lines that zoom through the forest is a company called 'Just Live' and is located perhaps 20 minutes away from Lihue near the Koloa area... read more.
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So if Maui was the first place in Hawaii that ever had zip-lines, it was the island of Kauai where they really became popular.
Almost immediately after we had the first zip-lines in 2002 on the island of Kauai, sometime shortly after that the first ones started to pop up on Kauai and they sort of spread like wildfire. To this day we have fantastic courses that are on Kauai that are world class some of the most beautiful that you'll find anywhere in the United States.
Kauai was this ideal location for zip-lines. Kauai is called the Garden Island. It's called that because there's so much foliage and vegetation. It is the oldest of the Hawaiian Islands. It was the one that's had the longest period of time to break down into soil and create huge ridges and valleys that were just ideal for this new concept of zip-lines. So some of the most beautiful areas were set aside for these special zip-lines and they are just as gorgeous today as they were originally, plus we've had even more zip-lines happen there.
o let's look at the state here or the island of Kauai. On Kauai we have zip-lines that range from up on the north shore in Princeville all the way down in Wailua, Lihue area and then in Koloa and working around. No matter where you are on the island you've got zip-lines that are close but in reality the island of Kauai is so small that you can choose whichever one you want and it's really not that far away.
The majority of these zip-lines are of the traditional variety in the sense that they will traverse a valley or a gorge or a canyon, go from one place to another, a high place to another high place and have the gravity flow pull you from one ridge down to another. There are so many varieties of this on the island, all differing. Each course if completely different than the next course but the one thing that they all have in common is incredible foliage and incredible views that you'll be able to see.
They're different in the sense of how long a number of these are. Some of them are going to be short. Some of them are going to be longer. We have them like 1,800 feet so you've got really long ones. You get to speeds that can get pretty fast probably over 40 miles an hour, something like that. They all start with a short course or a short zip so that you can get used to the idea of what's going to be happening in future zips. They progress usually and then on most of the zip-line courses you've got really a nice big couple large zip-lines that you go through. Very, very exciting.
So the first variety we have are these zips that go over gorges and valleys and that sort of thing and this is primarily the ones that we have on the island, but we also have canopy zips, ones that are in the treetops where we have a large forest with platforms that are built into trees and you go from one platform through the forest to another platform still in the treetops. Once you actually get into the forest and onto a platform, you just stay up in the top of the forest in this treetop area all the way through to the end of your zip-line course.
You'll have a number of usually rope bridges and fun things like that on most of the courses so it's going to be a little bit more than just a zip. Some have unusual characteristics, things that go with them. You can actually zip into a little pond or pool on one of them. So they've all got unusual things about them and you can look through our page on zip-lines on Kauai and see the differences.
The one thing that's the same about them is that they're all incredibly fun for sure.
The zip-line courses have changed and modified over the course of time. Some of the seats that you have can be different. The old kind you're actually just hanging onto a carabiner and you're turning yourself in this direction or that direction. You have a little bit of control in that way and you're sitting almost like in an old-fashioned swing like when you were a kid maybe, but strapped in. You're not going to fall out.
Then we have others more recent ones that have a little more flushed out chair almost that you're in so in many ways it's a little bit more comfortable but you don't have the control of the carabiners to move you in one direction or another, so it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.
We even have some now that will actually carry two people on the same zip in tandem. That's fairly new.
In addition to just the zip-lines that are traditional in these ways, both the treetop and the ones that we have that go over valleys, you can do a ropes course which is a hybrid of a zip-line where you go up in ropes. Part of it may be a zip-line, part of it you're just going up on ropes doing all sorts of different things, climbing very high, standing on top of a telephone pole, doing a leap of faith where you just fall over and straight down. You're hooked into lines on all of these so you get over your fear of heights if you have them.
These are used a lot with large groups, a lot of corporations and that sort of stuff. They'll bring their whole team in and try to develop some camaraderie and cooperation between the individuals by using these courses but these can be done individually too by just individual family members and so on taking the ropes course.
So there's a number of different things that you can do in addition to just the zip-lines on Kauai but they are all fantastic. They are so fun. It's one of the great things that you can do on Kauai. Oftentimes we're really busy on these. It's best to book them in advance if you know that you're going to be doing them.
Anyway, zip-lines on Kauai. Fantastic.
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