Flightline Safari — San Diego Zoo Safari Park
San Pasqual Valley, Escondido · near Escondido · San Diego
Ziplining
At a glance
- Best season
- Year-round (all-weather); requires Safari Park admission
- Open year round
- Yes
What is here
- Scenery
- foothills
- Amenities
- California's longest continuous zipline · Flies over free-roaming savanna wildlife · Guided open-air safari-truck ride to launch · A practice 'Fledgling' line first
- Best for
- Ziplining over rhinos and giraffes — nothing else like it
- Features
- Soars over the Safari Park savanna · 2/3-mile flight, ~130 ft up · Rhinos and giraffes below you · Reopened and upgraded in 2025
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Requires separate Safari Park admission plus a reservation · Age 8+, 60–275 lbs, minimum height 48 in · Closed-toe shoes and tied-back hair required · Reserve ahead — a popular, limited-capacity experience
- Family friendly
- Yes
Guides, rentals and operators
- Operators
- Safari Park
Ziplining detail
- Experiences
- big-views
- Thrill
- mellow
- Type
- scenic-zips
- Height
- 2
- Course notes
- California's longest continuous zipline and surely its most unusual — a two-thirds-mile flight some 130 feet above the Safari Park's savanna, soaring over rhinos, giraffes, and other free-roaming wildlife, reached by a guided open-air safari-truck ride
- Logistics note
- ~2/3-mile main line, ~130 ft high, over the savanna; age 8+, 60–275 lbs, 48 in+; park admission required
- Intl tip
- Nothing else in California is quite like it: Flightline Safari at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido is the state's longest continuous zipline, carrying you two-thirds of a mile at ~130 ft above the savanna — soaring over free-roaming rhinos, giraffes, and other wildlife. You warm up on a short 'Fledgling' line, then an open-air safari truck tours the herds and delivers you to the main launch. Reopened and enhanced in 2025; more scenic marvel than adrenaline rush, age 8+. Requires a reservation plus separate park admission — plan a full day.
The guide
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In the Guidebook
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Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.0975, -116.9975