CAÑON CITY — Construction has begun on the Soaring Eagle Zip Line at Royal Gorge Bridge and Park. It is slated to open by the end of April.
The 700-foot zip line will launch from the deck south of Pizza and Sub in the park and run parallel to the Royal Gorge, below the Aerial Tram, to a ridge north of the Visitors Center.
Park visitors will be harnessed into a chair for the four-minute ride, bridge and park general manager Mike Bandera said. Riders will zip backward from the launch area and then be electronically returned. Each chair can hold two people, and there will be two lines side-by-side, so up to four people can ride at a time.
“It is the highest zip line in the world,” Bandera said of the line, which runs at 1,100 feet above the canyon floor. Rachel Alexander, Cañon City Daily Record
