The Pigeon Forge zipline field has a headline act: the MegaZip at WildSide, 5,771 feet billed as the longest zipline in America, with over 1,000 feet of vertical drop. It gets two films here — the April 2025 opening-run briefing (cost, weight limits, practice zip, the ride to the top) and a family's action-camera flight with the UTVs and bikes of base camp around it.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

We Rode The LONGEST ZIPLINE In America! The MegaZip in PIGEON FORGE Tennessee

Adventure Is Out There ride the MegaZip on its April 2025 opening run — billed as the longest zipline in America at 5,771 feet — with the full briefing: cost, weight restrictions, speeds, the practice zip, the ride to the top and the 1,000-foot-drop flight itself.

Key takeaways
  • MegaZip: 5,771 feet, billed as America's longest zipline
  • Over 1,000 feet of vertical drop from launch to landing
  • Full briefing on cost, weight limits and ride time

Inside look at Legacy Mountain Zip Lines in Pigeon Forge, TN VisitMySmokies.com

VisitMySmokies

Visit My Smokies ride Legacy Mountain Ziplines in 2014, the outfitter's third season: the course had just grown from five lines to seven, set at about 2,200 feet of elevation off the Parkway corridor in Sevierville (the business markets itself under Pigeon Forge). The longest line runs 2,500 feet at up to 450 feet off the ground, speeds reach about 50 mph, and Mount LeConte fills the view.

Key takeaways
  • Course grew from five lines to seven by its third season (2014)
  • Longest line: 2,500 ft long, up to 450 ft off the ground
  • Speeds around 50 mph; course sits at ~2,200 ft elevation

Riding AMERICA'S LONGEST ZIPLINE! Wildside MegaZip in PIGEON FORGE Tennessee

Brie and Abby ride the MegaZip while Ryan films from base camp: check-in, the UTVs and mountain bikes around them, the tower views, and a mother's-eye action-camera run down America's longest zipline.

Key takeaways
  • Family ride: mother and daughter zip, father films
  • UTVs and mountain biking share the base camp
  • Action-camera footage shows the full flight

The established courses

Legacy Mountain: seven lines at about 2,200 feet of elevation off the Parkway corridor in Sevierville (marketed as Pigeon Forge), longest 2,500 feet at up to 450 feet off the ground and ~50 mph, LeConte filling the view. Foxfire Mountain's Goliath runs 2,250 feet at 55–60 mph, with the 330-foot Bridge to Prosperity — billed as America's longest swinging bridge — and 70-foot Lost Mine Falls over a historic iron mine as the park around it.

The hybrid and the park

The Flying Ox at Lumberjack Feud is a roller-coaster/zipline hybrid — a straight POV of the signature ride. WildSide's grand-opening film (UTV tour, the zipline announcement on stage) sets the park the MegaZip now crowns.

Watch: more views

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Inside Look Foxfire Mountain in Sevierville, TN from Visit My Smokies

VisitMySmokies

Visit My Smokies' inside look at Foxfire Mountain Adventure Park in Sevierville (2017): a family-run park with ziplines, a 60-foot Gorilla climbing wall, aerial courses for adults and kids, farm animals and house-made cider. The Goliath zipline runs 2,250 feet long at up to 475 feet off the ground and 55 to 60 mph; the 330-foot Bridge to Prosperity — billed as America's longest swinging bridge — leads to hiking trails and the 70-foot Lost Mine Falls, which pours over a historic iron mine worked from the late 1800s into the early 1900s.

Key takeaways
  • Goliath zipline: 2,250 ft long, up to 475 ft up, 55-60 mph
  • Bridge to Prosperity: 330-ft swinging bridge to the trails
  • Lost Mine Falls drops 70 ft over a historic iron mine

Roller Coaster/Zip-Line Hybrid at Lumberjack Feud - Pigeon Forge, TN

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AmusementInsider ride the Flying Ox, the roller-coaster/zipline hybrid at the Adventure Park — a straight POV of the park's signature ride. Watch content only.

WildSide Pigeon Forge Grand Opening | UTV Tour & Zipline Announcement

Adventure Is Out There attend WildSide's grand opening: a UTV ride for Brie (who missed the sneak peek), the food, and the on-stage announcement of the zipline to come. Filmed and narrated in English; only an Arabic auto-translated caption track was available, so it is cataloged here as watch content.

Choosing

MegaZip for the record flight, Legacy for course length and views, Foxfire for the whole adventure park around the zip. Gatlinburg's CLIMB Works has its own page in that town's directory.

Sources: the 7 videos on this page, filmed at zipline courses in Pigeon Forge and Sevierville.

Watch: the full set

1 videos · summaries from the actual guides

LONGEST Zipline in America to Open in PIGEON FORGE Tennessee | Anakeesta's WildSide

Adventure Is Out There's short 2024 announcement that the longest zipline in America would open at WildSide. Watch content only.

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