Editing Zip line (section)

====Canopy tours and adventure zip-lining====
[[File:Hocking Peaks Adventure Park, Logan, Ohio.jpg|thumb|Hocking Peaks Adventure Park, [[Logan, Ohio]]]]

Longer and higher rides are often used as a means of accessing remote areas, such as a [[rainforest]] [[Canopy (forest)|canopy]]. In the 1970s, wildlife biologists set up zip-lines as a way to study and explore the dense [[rainforests]] of Costa Rica without disturbing the environment. The business idea for zip-line [[canopy tour]]s developed from these. Darren Hreniuk, a Canadian citizen who moved to Costa Rica in 1992, around the same time that a scene in the film ''[[Medicine Man (film)|Medicine Man]]'' incorporated the treetop rides, with the goal of using canopy tours to help raise awareness for reforestation, education and socio-economic development in the surrounding areas.<ref name=OutdoorFunStore/> In October 1998, the Costa Rican Patent Office granted patent No. 2532 for an "Elevated Forest Transport System Propelled by Gravity, Using Harness and Pulley Through a Simple Horizontal Line" to Hreniuk. The patent was later annulled, bringing  uncertainty to zip-line businesses, before being reinstated after twenty years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2d301fe1-e8ec-4ddd-99f3-7c6ff8145210|date=10 November 2018|first=CastroPal|last=Abogados|title=Costa Rica – patent leaves canopy tours dangling|access-date=22 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122103124/https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2d301fe1-e8ec-4ddd-99f3-7c6ff8145210|archive-date=22 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.co.cr/canopy-patent-reinstated-canadian-man-costa-rica-20-year-legal-battle/61608/|publisher=Costa Rica Star|title=Canopy Patent Reinstated to Canadian Man in Costa Rica After 20 Year Legal Battle|first=Wendy|last=Anders|date=1 June 2017|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref>

A canopy tour (sometimes called a zip-line tour) provides a route through a wooded, and often mountainous, landscape, making primary use of zip-lines and aerial bridges between platforms built in trees. Tourists are harnessed to a cable for safety, and many are restricted to adults. Heights vary from near to the ground to near the treetops.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/take-a-zipline-or-canopy-tour-34122| title=Take a Zipline or Canopy Tour|first=Lois|last=Friedland|publisher=Tripsavvy|date=22 November 2017|access-date=23 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701111634/https://www.tripsavvy.com/take-a-zipline-or-canopy-tour-34122|archive-date=1 July 2018}}</ref> Canopy tours are largely marketed under the banner of [[ecotourism]], although the environmental impact of any type of zip-line is a disputed topic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/zip-line2.htm|title=How zip lines work: History of zip lines|first=Kate|last=Kershner|website=howstuffworks|access-date=23 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022429/https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/zip-line2.htm|archive-date=29 June 2018}}</ref>

The terminology varies (canopy tour, zip-lining, flying fox), and the distinction between using zip-lines for ecotourism and zip-lining as an [[Extreme sports|adventure sport]] is often not clear.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ziplinerider.com/Zipline_Locations.html|title=Zipline locations|website=Zipline Rider|access-date=24 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123102138/https://www.ziplinerider.com/Zipline_Locations.html|archive-date=23 January 2019}}; also a number of commercial sites such as [https://www.adrenaline.com.au/tree-top-adventures/ Adrenaline: Flying fox & tree adventures], [https://adventureamericaziplinecanopytours.com/canopy-tours/ Adventure America: Zipline canopy tours]</ref>
Zip-line tours are now popular vacation activities, found both at upscale resorts and at outdoor adventure camps, where they may be an element on a larger challenge such as a [[hiking|hike]] or [[ropes course]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/September-October-2008/Dont-Look-Down/ |title=Don't Look Down!| last=Thayer| first=Matthew|date=September–October 2008| journal=Maui No Ka 'Oi Magazine|access-date=9 March 2011|location=Maui, Hawaii|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126151202/http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazine/September-October-2008/Dont-Look-Down/|archive-date=26 November 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/most-extreme-zip-lines-in-america-34302|first=Lois|last=Friedland|title=The most extreme ziplines in America|date=25 May 2018|access-date=24 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124002436/https://www.tripsavvy.com/most-extreme-zip-lines-in-america-34302|archive-date=24 January 2019}}</ref>