Canopy Tours by EBL


Experience Based Learning (EBL) is pleased to bring you canopy tours and adventure experiences of our own design and management structure via our operation, partnerships, and franchise / licensed tours!

From remote exoitc locations to the off the beaten path locations, we offer regional adventure experiences for those adventure seekers who may not be able to get away and visit our courses in Hawaii or Alaska. After enjoying a very successful track record of design, consultation, inspection, and installation of canopy tours since 1999, some 40 projects and counting, EBL is the premier installer of canopy tours in the United States. Some of the newer start up companies on the market today are based on EBL installed courses, designs, training, and consultation. We are the leader in the canopy zip line tour industry that other companies are striving to following.

We are proud to have many firsts that sets EBL apart from other companies:

  • First to install engineered tours in Hawaii, Alaska, Idaho, Florida, North and South Carolina, Wisconsin, Massachusetts
  • First to provide a turn key franchise / license packages since 2005
  • First to be an Accredited Vendor for Canopy Zip Line Tour installation, training, and inspection
  • Proficient installations in trees, utility poles, steel columns, rock / mountain, and custom towers
  • First to have installed tours feature in MAJOR media locations such as NY Times, LA Times, Oprah, USA Today, etc.
  • Past EBL client tours have received numerous awards for "best tour", "most exciting tour", and "safest tour" to mention a few
  • Played a direct role in the growth, promotion, and development of industry safety standards over the past six years
  • First to develop an A+ rated insurance program to cover the liability for the industry in the USA, specifically.
  • and much, much, more!


Safer Operations

After many installations and numerous consulting projects, EBL continues to be the leader with our custom designs from multiple licensed and insured Professional and Structural Engineers. Our custom designed safety equipment currently is the strongest in the industry, pull tested rated, and six sigma tested results. We also focus on procedures in line with industry fall protection standards by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) standards, and safer operation procedures that have produced over a 5 million plus safe zip experiences on all the combined EBL tours installed.

EBL is an Accredited Vendor with the Professional Ropes Course Association and was reviewed for Canopy Zip Line Tours, ropes challenge courses, training, and course inspections. EBL is the first company in the United States to have achieved this status through a stringent peer review process and site critique of our practices. The PRCA is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) and EBL serves on the PRCA standards writing group for this organization.

Where Canopy Tours began...

Canopy Tours (Zip Line) have been present in the United States since roughly 1999. This growing adventure experience became popular in Costa Rica during the mid to late 1990's after enjoying widespread popularity as single zip lines on ropes challenge course in the United States since the mid 1960's. After the popular movie Medicine Man staring Sean Connery hit movie theaters in 1992, the concept of exploring the canopy of the tree tops utilizing climbing ropes, harnesses, and pulleys sparked the interest of adventure travelers around the world. Today, this growing ecology based adventure travel industry is bursting at the seams as more and more tours pop up. Experience Based Learning, (EBL) is proud to have played a predominate role in the expansion of canopy / zip line tours in the United States since the first Zip Line Tour (ground to ground based lines) installed in Maui Hawaii in 2002. No other builder has installed, designed, or operate more locations than EBL.

 

So again, WELCOME to our website! We hope that you find the following information contained in our website(s) useful in aiding your decision to visit an EBL facility near you and assist in your planning on what items to bring for the best adventure experience possible.

Happy Zipping!

Steve Gustafson
President / CEO