CLIMB Works' Smoky Mountains course — its Mountaintop course — is the area's premium zipline build: an ATV/UTV ride up the mountain to a start platform, then a course of six dual racing lines (the longest around 1,300 feet), rope bridges between platforms, and an automatic rappel off the final tower to finish. The operator comparison film puts it head-to-head with Legacy Mountain Ziplines (over in Pigeon Forge's directory) on views, line length and staff — and CLIMB Works' mountaintop setting is its argument.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

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Tenting Around Florida

Tenting Around Florida rides CLIMB Works in July 2025: the UTV haul up the mountain is an attraction in itself - very fast, very steep, 'these drivers drive like they're on fire' - followed by a run of ziplines through the canopy. His verdict: come back in fall for the color.

Key takeaways
  • The UTV ride up is fast and steep enough to be its own ride
  • Multiple ziplines run through the canopy
  • Fall color is the repeat-visit pitch

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Labby Outdoors

Labby Outdoors' 2024 ride is the closest this page gets to taking the tour yourself: the guides' full safety patter on the platforms, the sit-back harness technique, and line after line over the treetops - the case the title makes for this as the best zipline in the Smokies.

Key takeaways
  • Guides brief the sit-back harness technique on the platforms
  • Long lines over the treetops, guide-led throughout

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Family Adventures

Family Adventures brave the Mountaintop course in 2022 with three self-confessed height-fearers: ATV to the top, rope bridges, a rappel off a platform and six dual ziplines, including the roughly 1,300-foot line the guides save for a race.

Key takeaways
  • Mountaintop course: ATV up, rope bridges, a rappel, six dual ziplines
  • The longest line runs roughly 1,300 feet
  • Built for racing a partner on the dual lines

The course

The full-course capture rides everything: the UTV climb, the first dual line over the canopy, the bridges, the long lines at speed, the rappel. The vlogger's complete tour adds the outfitter base and the guides' safety routine; the older 2017 rider films show the course in its earlier layout under the same name and company — the operation has run this mountain for years.

Dual lines

Side-by-side cables mean couples and kids race rather than queue — the design detail every film remarks on. The harnesses and braking are guide-managed; the reviews aim at nervous first-timers and land reassuring on staff professionalism.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

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Getting Keried Away

Getting Keried Away's first-ever zipline, January 2025: nerves at the gear-up, bear-sighting stories traded from the day before, and a convert by the second line - 'that thing was screaming' is a compliment here.

Key takeaways
  • First-time zipliner friendly - nerves at gear-up are normal
  • Bears are a live topic on this mountain

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Justin Yarborough

A pandemic-era escape in October 2020: Justin and Lupe ride CLIMB Works with three guides, six to a UTV up the mountain, GoPro and 360 camera running - the full tour as it ran in the attraction's distanced season.

Key takeaways
  • Three guides run the tour; six riders to a UTV
  • A full canopy tour as it ran in October 2020

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Brandi Lynn- Smoky Mountain Livin'

Brandi Lynn's short 2026 overview of CLIMB Works - the views, the lines and how it stacks against the other zipline adventures around the Smokies, from a creator checking it out for her audience. (The film is English-narrated, but its only served caption track is an auto-translation, so it loads as watch content.)

Gatlinburg-side location

The course sits on the Gatlinburg side of the park gateway (the outfitter runs from its mountain base outside town), which makes it the natural adventure pairing with a park day rather than a Parkway day — the adventure category of this directory holds the area's other canopy courses for comparison.

Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed at CLIMB Works Smoky Mountains, Gatlinburg.

Watch: the full set

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

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CLIMB Works

CLIMB Works' own 2025 film of the Smoky Mountains tour: UTV ride up a scenic mountain, dual ziplines above the treetops, skybridges, and National Park views - the official pitch in 94 seconds.

Inside Look at Climb Works in the Smoky Mountains from Visit My Smokies

VisitMySmokies

VisitMySmokies' 2018 inside look at CLIMB Works: the two world-class tours - the Mountaintop Zipline tour and the top-rated Treetop Zipline tour - plus what the description calls Gatlinburg's only true mountain biking, in the woods outside town.

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RambleQuester

RambleQuester's 2026 ride-along on the CLIMB Works canopy tour in the Smokies - platform-to-platform footage from inside the harness.

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