Zip Line Mania Sevier County Tennessee
A zip line here, a zip line there, here a zip line, there a zip line, everywhere a zip zip. As paintball has faded, investors and property owners throughout Sevier County have found a new way to turn their properties into money making propositions.
It slowly started with one company as a means to draw visitors to its rental properties, soon Smoky Mountain Paintball was setting up their zip line course, Dollywood contracted another company to set their zip line up, which it seems Dollywood is now running it on their own. In Gatlinburg another business started a zip line course. This once popular past time for country folk is now reborn as an attraction filled with high-tech equipment, tons of legalities and the need for hefty insurance. This does not discourage profiteers from trying to add their uniqueness and out do or out market their competitor.
A local property owner has requested a zip line course somewhere off Middle Creek. Another company, just off Branam Hollow Road, has sought approval for their zip line course which includes sky bridges and later down the road a lodge for meeting and catered events.
Zip lines are popular today, they may not bring people to the area but they give a select few adventure seekers a great opportunity under the canopy of the Tennessee Smoky Mountains.
Looks like the bungee jump reborn, those empty jump towers blocking views of the Smoky Mountains dotting the Pigeon Forge Parkway towards Gatlinburg. We now have towering structures going up all over our mountains. When their short life is no longer profitable, like paintball and bungee jumping, what regulations are in place to insure the abandoned structures will be removed? While they are in operation, has the city the staffing for safety inspections all over the county?
Tennessee Smoky Mountains Zipline Galore
Seems zip lines are the trend and, everyone seems to be in a rush to capitalize.
First we saw Wahoo ZipLines build a facility on the back roads of Sevierville, next Dollywood Theme Park added zip lines under a lease with another company, along side this was Smoky Mountain Paintball off Chapman Highway in Sevierville.
Gatlinburg has little room for new attractions, but not to be left out Gatlinburg zip lines were installed just up the road from the Gatlinburg Space Needle. We here more zip lines are soon to come in and around Gatlinburg.
Now on the Pigeon Forge agenda is Zip Lines of the Smokies. They are seeking to use land owned along the PIgeon Forge Parkway to establish a sales office for Zip Lines of the Smokies. The actual location for their zip line operation would be on Mill Creek Road. The zip line site seems to have gone approved without a hitch but the ticket sales office has hit a slight snag. Surely this will unsnarl itself and the mountains will have yet another zip line.
Maybe Sevier County Smoky Mountains Tennessee can establish itself as a “destination” under the billing of ”USA Zip Line Capital.”
