Canopy Tour News
Read what people are saying about West Virginia's newest adventure - TreeTops, the New River Gorge Canopy Tour. You'll find a sample collection of what's in the press and online here from tour participants, news media, and friends.Recent Media Coverage
USAToday Travel - September 2010
| "It's one of the most beautiful places I've been." - Michael R. Smith |
10 Great Ziplines Across the USA
This tour swoops through hardwood forests and old-growth hemlocks above a canyon adjacent to the New River Gorge, which is famous for its whitewater rafting. "It's one of the most beautiful places I've been." - Michael R. Smith
She Knows Living - January 2010
10 Great Places To Zipline!
| "Few things beat soaring through the air" -Corie Russell She Knows Living |
Wall Street Journal - January 2010
| ...the nonprofit Nature Conservancy has teamed up with an adventure tourism company doing treetop tours. -Kris Mahar,WSJ |
Some of West Virginia's finest hemlock forests are under
assault by the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid. To raise awareness about the predatory bug, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy has teamed up with an adventure tourism company doing treetop tours.
-WSJ, Kris Mahar
Popular Mechanics, August 2009
| By the time I glide onto the Almost Heaven platform - at 90 feet, the course's highest perch - I've zipped along 3430 feet of cable... - T Edwards Nickens, Popular Mechanics |
Popular Mechanics Magazine
T. Edward Nickens
New Zipline Tour Helps Protect Trees
Clipped to cables, riders on the TreeTops Canopy Tour in West Virginia fly by wire on ziplines-and help save an endanger hemlock forest at the same time..
Adventure West Virginia Canopy Tour
Coverage by Channel 13 WOWK TV
Story and video coverage.
Need to see the actual URL? Here it is:
http://wowktv.com/slideshow.cfm?func=viewshow&showid=234
High Flying Adventure Comes to Fayette County
Posted Sunday, May 3, 2009 ; 05:09 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
A new canopy tour is showing West Virginia's terrain from a whole new perspective.
Story by Adrian Mosby
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http://www.wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=58172
Canopy Tour Puts Participants In Line With Nature
The State Journal
Posted Friday, May 1, 2009 ; 09:56 AM
Updated Monday, May 4, 2009 ; 09:14 AM
A new treetop canopy tour from Fayette County whitewater outfitters makes it possible for participants to swing from tree to tree with the greatest of ease.
Story by Ann Ali
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http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=58026
Recent Blog Coverage
Bill of the Birds: Zipline Birding in West Virginia
[This is a really detailed blog about this birding group's first visit to the new Canopy Tour. They included pictures and videos, plus really good birding knowledge. It's a comprehensive overview; scroll to the May 6, 2009 entry.]
May 6, 2009
By Bill of the Birds
There's a new zipline near Fayetteville, West Virginia, on property owned by Class VI, a New River rafting and adventure company. A handful of the trip leaders from the New River Birding & Nature Festival were invited to sample the new ...
Need to see the actual URL? Here it is:
Bill of the Birds - http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/blog/blogger.html
Participant Comments
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Equal parts adrenaline rush and extraordinary immersion into quiet forest. I think that was the most surprising part. The zipline is obviously fun and exciting; the views from the platforms and exploring from the sky bridges are truly remarkable. |
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Julie T., Bryson City, NC |
