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The Las Vegas building department has issued a temporary commercial permit for two towers for the ziplines, one east of North Casino Center and another near North Fourth Street, shown here.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 | 12:26 p.m.
The company that built the four-tier zipline at Bootleg Canyon in Boulder City has brought a similar – and less expensive – attraction to the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.
Greenheart Conservation Co. Ltd., which has built environmentally friendly ziplines and canopy trails around the world, has installed four lines that will move riders 800 feet from the Fremont Street parking garage to a 14-foot-high landing platform near one of the Fremont Street Experience’s performance stages.
Riders are expected to be able to achieve speeds of 25 mph on the lines. It opens Friday.
A blog post on AOL’s Gadling travel site said the Fremont Zipline would charge riders $20 from 6 p.m. to midnight, $15 from 2-6 p.m. and $10 for a re-ride, but that price structure could change.
The Bootleg Canyon Flightlines attraction costs riders $149 and includes five runs on lines of various lengths and speeds.
A City of Las Vegas spokesman said today that the building department has issued a temporary commercial permit enabling the company to erect two towers, one east of North Casino Center and another east of North Fourth Street. The permit is valid through Jan. 15 and allows operations daily from noon to midnight.
Greenheart co-founder Ian Green, who invested $150,000 in the temporary towers and lines, hopes to more than double the length of the attraction within the Fremont Street Experience light canopy. Las Vegas City Council approval would be required to lengthen the lines.
Greenheart has built ziplines at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, in Haiti and at Whistler, British Columbia, in Canada.
The Bootleg Canyon attraction gives riders views of Boulder City, Eldorado Valley and Lake Mead and on some runs, riders can achieve speeds of 50 mph.
I'm so excited to read this! I was lucky enough to go last year over Bootleg Canyon and have Only great things to say and great memories of that day!
I can't wait to try Freemont Street and although the money I spent last year was well worth it, being able to do this for little more than I'd pay for an IMAX ticket will be wonderful.
neato, now I can spit on people... by accident... ;)
$20 seems overpriced for going 800' on a zip line.
$20 to go 800 ft?? Psh...No thanks.
Good luck. I suspect it will be a popular attraction with younger folks that crowd the street at night.
This is awesome! Finally, some cool stuff happening Downtown. So simple and exciting. Can't wait to give it a try.
so how long before someone take a beer bottle to the head from below, or slams into a tractor trailer that goes through fremont at that intersection..
I'm concerned that a lot of drunk people will try to use it and will end up vomiting on the crowd below!
megazip in singapore is $29.00 SGD ($22.25 USD). 1476 feet long. 246 feet high. 31mph.
^hahahaha!
Those that are into this will be happy to pay the $20.
Better then those $5 coffee's from Starbucks. ;-)
Downtown has been doing better lately and this will just ad to it. Glad to see something different.
This is cool...and innovative (nobody from the Strip has thought of this). Go Downtown, go!
What the hell is a "Zip-Line?" Well, at least it's the private sector investing in it and not we taxpayers.
Zip Line:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=zip-line
"hey honey what do you want to do today?, it is too busy at the pool and we have a show tonight to go to, lets try freemont." " they have a NEW attraction there called ziplining, only $20.00"
This is what Downtown needs, give us out of towners some reason to come down town. Ziploining here in canada during the winter olympics had line ups for 2-3 hrs at $40.00 a ride...........
Las Vegas needs more poeple willing to speed their own money to get people to the Freemount Casinos, it is not for everyone, but it is safe, fun and cheap.
COUNT ME IN!
I can see a lot of Smokers using it, to save the
800' of huff and puff!
I will try it when I visit in late October. Sounds fun...$20 is fine.
Hella cool I wanna do it!
Another reason for tourists to go downtown and spend MONEY! Sounds like a hit. GREAT NEWS!!!
Downtown is still looking good. I've got to take some time to spend at good ole downtown on my next visit.
How about a zip line from the deck on the Stratosphere to Fremont Street? That would be worth riding!
A breathalyzer test should be required before allowing people to ride that thing.