Zip Across the Wild Animal Park
By CATHERINE GARCIA
Updated 7:45 AM PST, Fri, May 1, 2009
Drop hundreds of feet, then soar above rhinos at speeds of 47 mph for almost a mile! The Wild Animal Park has just opened its Flightline zip-line adventure, inviting park guests to "soar like a bird."
For 70 bucks, you can take part in the hour-and-a-half long experience. It starts with training and a test run on a short zip-line called Fledgling Run. Then your guide takes you on a truck ride through parts of the park that have never been open to the public before.
You end up at the launching site, with a 900 foot elevation and an incredible view of the San Pasqual Valley. Once your harness is attached, your guide helps you off the platform, and you begin a roughly minute-long thrill ride over the Asian and African animal exhibits, getting as close as about 36 feet to some of the animals, including Indian rhinoceros, Pere' David's deer and Przewalski's wild horse. The two-thirds of a mile journey (about 3,677 feet) comes with a 421 foot drop in elevation.
You have to be at least 10 years old and weigh between 75 and 250 pounds -- and be free of back or neck injuries -- to ride the ride.
A third of the money you pay for the ride goes toward the Wild Animal Park's efforts to save the California condor.
First Published: Apr 30, 2009 5:18 PM PST
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