Balance Check
Ropes Courses
Test your balance and challenge your nerves on our high ropes courses, but never fear. Unlike an Olympic gymnast, you’re strapped securely into a harness, wearing a protective helmet and no one is secretly hoping you’ll fall. In fact, our high ropes courses are ideal for group and corporate team building. Navigating a ropes course is a fun way to interact with colleagues, learn to trust work mates and share a memorable experience that has lasting value.
High ropes courses are also known as vertical playgrounds that are as much fun for adults as they are for kids. In addition to all the balancing challenges, features often incorporate climbing walls and zip rides. Some courses offer a natural setting where guests can learn repelling, roping techniques and basic climbing skills using natural geological features.
With safety built in, high ropes courses challenge your perceptions in a fail-safe setting. Your balance might actually be better than you ever imagined as you coolly put one foot in front of the other on a suspended beam or walk across a wobbly bridge. Although your brain knows you’ll be safe even if you fall, humans’ natural fear of heights often gets in the way of what we think is possible not only on high ropes courses, but in life. Our high ropes courses will recalibrate what you think is possible. If you can walk along a wire suspended tens of feet in the air, who knows what else you can do if you put your mind to it.
Glenwood Canyon Zipline Adventures
1308 County Road 129 at No Name exit 119
970-945-6737 or 888-494-7386
glenwoodcanyonzipline.com
Glenwood Activities
112 6th Street
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Phone: 970-945-6737 or 800-958-6737
glenwoodactivities.com
Glenwood Adventure Company
723 Cooper Avenue
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Phone: 877-346-4536 or 970-945-7529
glenwoodadventure.com
Colorado Mountain College, Spring Valley Campus
Not open to the public, but available for groups and professional development
802 Grand Avenue
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
Phone: 970-947-8237 or 800-621-8559
coloradomtn.edu