Grouse Mountain Ziplines

I bought two tickets from a third party (slightly cheaper). Yea it’s a bit pricey but I think it was worth the experience if you never ziplined before: D
We made the best out of this trip even though it was pouring rain the day we ziplined. We pretty much got a private ziplining tour/​service because of the weather. Something about going through the eerie fog made it an unique experience.
Staff: GREAT SERVICE. Very informative, helpful and fun to chat with. I would totally recommend this place (just make sure you go on a sunny day…). They were super helpful via email as well when I had Q’s and they responded pretty quickly. Wish we had more Canadian cash to tip them with :/​
Zipline: 5 stations, the last one being the longest and best. Make sure to follow their direction so you won’t hurt your neck or bite your tongue. I think the second or third zipline, the staff filmed us zip down together and the other staff on the other end slightly swung me inward so I can grab my boyfriends hand. They gave us a brief history about the area and even drove us to check out the bears.
How to get there: Drive into the mountain, go up to the ticket box and ride the transportation that will take you all the way up to the top of the mountain. Once you get there ask for direction and follow the bear foot prints to the location. Make sure to make at least 45min cushion time just to get there from parking! Parking costs money as well.
Overall it was a memorable experience. Even though it was pouring rain and foggy outside, we had a lot of fun!

This was a fun way to spend the afternoon.
The good:
— Ziplines were pretty good, especially line #4 and #5.
— Our guides were great, upbeat and helpful.
— Smooth experience, no delays or problems.
— Great views on a nice day.
The bad:
— Kinda pricey for a zipline.
Side note: You have to wear one of their helmets to ride and you can rent a Gopro or a locker if you want.

If you’re looking for an outdoor activity near Vancouver, look into Grouse Mountain Zip Lines. A great way to spend half a day in the outdoors and loads of fun.
Grouse Mountain is about 30 – 45 minutes north of Vancouver. We parked in the lot (C$ 6) and took the 5 minute gondola ride to the top. The ride is included in the price of the zip line but if you’re just sightseeing it’s something like C$ 40 which seemed ridiculous to me. The gondola drops you off at a big visitor center with restaurant, bathrooms, etc., and you walk a few minutes further to the zip line building where you get outfitted. The first zip line takes off just a few yards outside their door.
They put us in a group of around 6 people, plus two guides. The guides seem to be young men and women who ski in the wintertime and do this to tide them over during the off season. I’m sure guides vary but ours were friendly and very competent.
The course is 5 lines ranging from basic to exhilarating. The whole experience took about 1 ½ hours. Along the way, you will do some light hiking and stair climbing. The views of Vancouver are magnificent so good weather is definitely a plus. All in all a great way to spend the afternoon.
Beware that traffic going back into Vancouver can be heavy, much of it before you reach the bridge into the city. It took us 45 minutes just to get to the bridge.

This review is not about the zipling itself, but about the business practices of this company.
I booked a zipline with Grouse Mountain while on vacation in Vancouver, BC a few weeks back, for my second to last day of the trip. Unfortunately, I got pretty sick the evening prior to the day I was scheduled. As soon as I knew I was in no shape to zipline the next morning, I called around 5PM to explain the situation, cancel and ask for a refund.
They refused to refund me, and told me that in order to get my money back, told me that I could either 1. reschedule (which was not possible since I was scheduled to leave the following day) or 2. provide a Drs. note, which I thought was pretty extreme, since although I was sick, and in no condition to go flying down the side of a mountain, a doctors visit wasn’t necessary (esp since I am a visiting tourist in an international country).
So now I’m out $ 109 and no zipline! I was bummed– really looking forward to trying ziplining… thanks for nothing!

I’ve always wanted to try ziplining and we made the drive up. $ 109 is a lot for anything that lasts about 1.5 hours but how often do you get to do this? (It’s two hours if there’s a huge group. Our group was five total.)
The trick is to buy tickets a little after the opening 10am rush. We went on what started off as a rainy Monday but even the group ahead of us was a pretty decent size, like seven or eight people. Imagine the weekend on a sunny day. Our slot was 11:20am. It was a family of three and my cousin and myself.
The workers are all friendly, we got checked in and assigned our gear. The big question is cameras. They rent GoPros for $ 33 (or $ 36?) and the guides start and stop the video for you. I forgot my damn GoPro but we asked if we could use a cellphone or DSLR. They said we totally could use whatever but warned us about them slipping over certain lines. So, if you can figure out a wrist strap to your cellphone, they’ll let you use that. I wanted to let my DSLR hang around my neck, which they would have let me do, but the morning rain killed that idea.
Anyway, so we met our guides; Adam from the UK and Simon from Switzerland… awesome guys, faked-​laughed at my dumb jokes (or maybe they actually thought I was somewhat funny). They were awesome. They didn’t try to be show-​offs, didn’t try to be hall monitors (letting us have some fun) and they were just normal guys.
So, you go on five lines. Three lines at the base, two off the back of the top.
Line #1 — Small but gets your feet wet, gets your confidence and trust going with the gear.
Line #2 — Third longest. Really fast, you have to ‘starfish’ (arms and legs out) to wind drag and you still slam into the stopping area, which I liked, actually.
Line #3 — Smaller line over water, so it’s scenic. You can bounce on this one, if you want.
Line #4 — This is the crazy one (s). You take a slow-​ass lift up… then walk to the line (picture attached). It’s faaaarrrrrrrrr. In mean, the unloading porch is like a dot on the horizon. The line is across a big valley. You actually are encouraged to go as fast as possible because sometimes people freak out and slow themselves down and get stuck. Our guides said on #4 and #5, usually one person a day gets stuck and they have to drag them back. So, grow a pair and gun it! Look around, beautiful view of Vancouver. If you’re scared of heights, don’t look down.
Line #5 — Same deal, especially for this… it’s really long, a return across the same valley but this isn’t as steep so you really have to lean back and get speed. The boy in our group literally almost didn’t make it to the platform, stopped before the bumpers, he was going so slow (didn’t weigh that much).
On the way out, we tipped our guides $ 10 each. I get the impression they don’t get tipped a lot so if they’re good, kick in. Yeah, $ 109 is a lot but they probably don’t make a ton and your lives were in their hands.
Definitely give this a go!
Tip — try parking lot A, everyone assumes it’s full and just settles for C or D, which were packed… but A was actually wide open. People see the lower parking lots and just assume they’d better get something quickly.

I was treated to these ziplines a few years ago as a birthday surprise.
Having never zipped before and not being a big fan of rollercoasters I was a little apprehensive to say the least. Heights are also not my favorite thing in the world.
Thankfully the package included a gondola ride up and down, and we didn’t have to wait long for the experience to begin. There are five ziplines and the first two are shorter and intended to prepare you for what lies ahead.
The guides we had on the day were chatty and very good at their jobs. They gave excellent instructions and seemed genuinely happy to be there. I felt completely safe while zipping, though that didn’t stop me from closing my eyes over the scary parts! You are strapped in securely, so there’s nothing to be worried about.
I didn’t find getting from one zipline to the next to be taxing at all. It’s all part of the experience! All in all we finished in around 2 – 2.5 hours.
To give some perspective on price, Grouse charges $ 110-​$ 120 depending on the season, less for members. I’ve since been ziplining in Puerto Vallarta which was about US$ 100 for an all-​day experience of 10 – 15 ziplines, offroad 4×4, rappelling and waterslides. It was a much more comprehensive, enjoyable experience, though as my first foray, I had a good time at Grouse as well.
Would I be open to returning? Absolutely, if this came up on Groupon for about half off. Otherwise, I’ll be checking out other more reasonably-​priced ziplines in the Lower Mainland or overseas instead.

I don’t know why this place has so few reviews! I was in Vancouver for a few days and I knew I wanted to go ziplining (I’ve never been ziplining before). So my plan was to hike the Grouse Grind and do ziplining when I got to the top. I went early on a Friday morning and got to the top of the mountain around 9am. I tried to get on the 10am zipline tour but it was all full, so I signed up for the 10:30am tour instead. Surprisingly, I was literally the ONLY person on the 10:30am tour, and I still got two fabulous tour guides (although later on in the tour it makes sense why you actually need two guides for every tour). It was like a private tour, and I had a blast!
The tour is supposed to about 2 hours, but I’m assuming that’s with a full group. I was back at the base in about an hour and 15 minutes. And I’m definitely not complaining because with a smaller group, you don’t spend as much time waiting around. It’s a very smooth zipline to zipline experience. The first zipline sort of gets you settled with how things are supposed to feel. They teach you the breaking position and signal you at the end of the line to let you know when you have to break. For those of you who are worried, the breaking position serves to lessen the impact when you hit the breaks, but you’re not going to die or anything if your position is just a bit off. The third line was my favorite. Well, it was either 3 or 4… whichever the longest one was. You reach almost 40 mph and the zipline is pretty long (I’d say almost a minute?).
There is some hiking involved to get from zipline to zipline, and you also get to take a ski lift to get to lines 4 and 5. Another way to enjoy the breathtaking views of Grouse Mountain.
From my personal experience, I would say that unless it’s raining, every day is a good ziplining day. If it’s sunny and clear, you get gorgeous views of the mountain. But I went on a very cloudy/​foggy day, and I still had a great experience. When it’s super foggy, no you don’t get to see much of the mountain, but ziplining through fog is quite an experience as well! You’re literally going through thick white mist and you can only see maybe 2 – 3 ft in front. It makes it more exciting, in my opinion.
It is a bit pricey at $ 109 for 5 ziplines, but I thought it was worth it. I had a wonderful experience here and I hope to return someday!

Amazing fun and great staff! Cannot fault a thing, save for my gopro didn’t produce the best of the zips but not sure how that happened! Highly recommend day out. We even saw bears at the bottom!

This place definitely deserves more than the current 3 star average. This is a fun, albeit pricey, activity just minutes away from downtown Vancouver.
I’ve been ziplining at several locations and each of them are a bit different. The Grouse Mountain setup was super simple and easy, the guide clips you in and the only thing you need to worry about is enjoying the ride and remembering the right form before your impact with the braking spring at the end of the run.
The guides were lots of fun and very helpful. My wife, 12 year old son and I really enjoyed the 2 hours we spent zip lining on Grouse Mountain. If you are in a group, definitely bring your go pro or rent one from Grouse Mountain. I have some great footage of my family that will be enjoyed for many years to come.
The last two lines are the really high, long and fast zip lines. The last two lines offer breath taking views and a nice long ride between the mountains.
Enjoy!

A little bit pricey for the ziplines… 5 stations for $ 109. But we totally enjoyed the experience! The view was absolutely gorgeous. The mountains full of snow around us and the forest and lake underneath us… scary but very addictive that we wanted to do it again!
The staffs are super friendly and professional. They gave very detail instructions. We felt very safe!
The only thing we didn’t like about was we had to carry our own zipline equipment. Yes… it was kind of heavy! It was very difficult to walk and carried the heavy equipment in the snow! However, the staffs would jump in and helped us to carry if we were having difficulties.

Over priced for many reasons.
$ 110 for only 5 stations. My prior zipline experience in Nicaragua was only $ 40 for 10 stations.
Only line #2 was exciting. It was fast, but far too short. Lines 4 & 5 are long but slow. So slow the guides warned us to use the highest speed technique in order to not get stuck in the middle of the line.
The guides were trained to tell us to use the most conservative poses. While friendly, the guides seemed more interested in maintaining banter amongst themselves than ensuring their customers were having a good time.
The Nica guides encouraged us to try more exciting poses. They taught us «superman» & how to hang upside down. The Nica guides seemed more interested in ensuring we had a good time. They asked if we wanted them to take pictures or movies with our own equipment. They took great pictures of us in various poses on & off the lines. The Grouse Mountain people took a few rather uninteresting pictures with their equipment then offered to sell them to us @ $ 10 or so each.
I know things in Canada are generally more expensive than in Nica. But paying more than twice the price… for less than half the experience… seems excessive.
Nonetheless, if you have not been on other ziplines you may really enjoy this experience.