Highline Adventures
Santa Ynez Valley (Buellton), near Santa Barbara · near Buellton / Solvang · Central Coast
Ziplining
At a glance
- Best season
- Year-round in the mild Santa Barbara climate; Moonlight night tours seasonally
- Open year round
- Yes
What is here
- Scenery
- wine-country
- Amenities
- Three dual racing ziplines up to 400 ft high · 4x4 Hummer climb through protea fields · Adventure Park course & Skynet Playground · Moonlight (night) zipline tours seasonally
- Best for
- Head-to-head racing zips high over Santa Ynez wine country
- Features
- Among California's tallest & fastest ziplines · Side-by-side racing on every line · 4x4 climb through blooming protea fields · Night 'Moonlight' tours over the valley
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Weight and height limits apply · Closed-toe shoes required; small-group tours — reserve ahead · 4x4 ride up a dirt road to the launch · Warm and sunny — bring water; watch for gnats up top
- Family friendly
- Yes
Guides, rentals and operators
- Operators
- Highline Adventures
Ziplining detail
- Experiences
- dual-racing · night-flights · big-views
- Thrill
- thrilling
- Type
- racing-zips
- Height
- 4
- Course notes
- Some of California's biggest, tallest and fastest ziplines — three sets of dual, side-by-side lines up to 400 feet in the air over the Santa Ynez Valley, reached by a 4x4 climb up the mountain through protea flower fields, with the first line longest and the last the fastest
- Logistics note
- ~2 hrs; 3 dual (side-by-side) lines, 7,500+ ft of cable, up to 400 ft high, 1,000+ ft of vertical; small groups
- Intl tip
- Some of California's biggest, tallest and fastest ziplines, in the Santa Ynez Valley near Buellton (about an hour from Santa Barbara). Three sets of dual, side-by-side lines let you race a friend head-to-head — first line longest, last one fastest — soaring up to 400 ft over the valley across 7,500+ ft of cable. It starts with a 4x4 Hummer climb through protea flower fields. There's also an Adventure Park, a Skynet Playground for little kids, and seasonal Moonlight night tours. Open year-round in the mild climate; reserve ahead.
The guide
In the sunny hills of the Santa Ynez Valley near Buellton — about an hour from downtown Santa Barbara — Highline Adventures tak…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Highline Adventures — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.6034, -120.135