Skytrail Information: The lift opened for passengers on June 18th, 2001 Length: 1570 feet one way Vertical rise: 571 Altitude at top: 742 feet ASL Trip time one way: average 9 minutes including three slow downs for loading Type of lift: fixed grip gondola with moving drive for tensioning. Cars: 6 passenger CWA Omega, handicapped accessible. Made in Switzerland. Lift: POMA, designed and manufactured in Grand Junction, Colorado. Poma also owns Otis elevators and builds many public conveyances like funiculars and monorails Cable: thickness-42.5 mm or about 1.5 inches. Tested to 296,000 pounds of pull. That is enough to lift all the towers, drive station, return station, bullwheels, all of the concrete and both control shacks!(wow!) Made in Austria.
Car #7 arriving at the top. There are eight cars on the line, each one can transport six passengers through the redwood forest at about 11 mph. There are three short slow downs to about 1/2 mph in each direction allowing great picture taking.
Amazing forest canopy level views are provided by Skytrail, you are right in the tree tops!
Looking out over Hidden Beach Red mountain, old growth stands