Redwoods Canopy Tour - Mount Hermon, CA

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Project Overview

• 2008 - In conjunction with business partner Bonsai Design*, installed a traditional canopy tour including six zip lines and two sky bridges; and an extensive challenge course. S.T.E.P.S. was responsible for generating the lead, program consultation, equipment outfitting, program design and operations documentation, training, and certification.
• Ongoing - Training and Certification, Inspection, Equipment Sourcing, Consultation

Tour Information

Redwoods Canopy Tour, located six miles outside of downtown Santa Cruz, California at Mount Hermon Conference Center, offers riders an unparralled opportunity to explore the most majestic of trees, the Redwoods. The Canopy Tour, opened in summer 2008 to Mount Hermon guests, consists of six interconnected Zip Lines and two Sky Bridges attached to a series of mature, Coastal Redwoods. The course presents a linear sequence of traverses that allow guests to travel above a scenic stretch of canyon densely forested with Coastal Redwoods, Bay Laurel, Tan and Live Oaks, some Douglas Firs, and Madrone Trees.

A short, inclined bridge leading to the first tree platform provides entry to the course, and the traverses proceed gradually downward from tree to tree and end back on the canyon wall near the Canyon Challenge Course, a new family-style static challenge course designed by Canopy Tour Builder Bonsai Design*, and also opened during Summer 2008.

The canopy tour affords many wonderful views of the Redwoods and Bean Creek, which cuts through the canyon 80 to 150 feet below the course. Although logged as recently as the late nineteenth century, the Redwoods and others trees have flourished in the area and provide a dense layered canopy. Led by Canopy Tour Builder and Canopy Tour Trainer S.T.E.P.S.-trained canopy tour guides and naturalists, guests are provided insight into the ecology and natural history of the environment as well as educated on the proper technique for zip lining. Regardless of whether you are seeking adventure, an opportunity to glide peacefully through the canopy of some of the tallest trees in the World, we are certain you will not be disappointed.

A note on construction: Constructing a canopy tour in the Redwoods required a significant undertaking. Specal care was taken to create an experience that worked with the trees and the environment and not against it. New and innovative techniques were created to ensure that the tour would not harm any of the trees, but rather, create an opportunity to educate guests to the area and teach sustainability and conservationism. We are fully committed to perserving the environment.

Contact Information:

37 Conference Drive, Mount Hermon, CA 95041
(831) 419-0153 office

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