Tahoe Treetop Adventure Parks — Attraction in Incline Village-Crystal Bay

Myself, my wife, and our kids 12, 10, and 7 visited the Tahoe Vista site. The safety, staff, and maintenance of the facility were top notch. The paths on the ground are not maintained in winter, so if there is snow on the ground you will get wet between courses. This includes lots of post holing and sliding and poor footing. All of our falls were during transitions, and we had a dozen of them. My 10 y.o. has cerebral palsy and lacks some muscle control. The staff were accommodating and permitted me to assist him on the obstacles, rather than strictly enforcing the one-person-at-a-time rules. I will second the request for maps of any kind. The signage in the field does not include all of the courses, but only the nearby ones. I only knew there were nine because of the introduction by the staff. Also, make sure your kids are up to the challenge before you start. My 7 y.o. made it up the starting ramp and across one zip line before deciding they were terrified and did not want to participate any farther. They were safely lowered to the ground and watched from below for the remainder of our session. Fifty bucks for a ramp and a 20 ft. zip line - ouch. Rather than a linear layout like miniature golf where the start/stop of each hole is easy to navigate, the courses are laid out randomly, with multiple exits or entrances clustered near each other. This requires you to navigate the poorly maintained pathways each time. Again, without a map you are forced to ask directions frequently. We ran out of time and were unable to complete all courses. The parking is shared by a for-fee day use area. We were told the fee was included with our adventure pass, but were not given any window decal or dash receipt. Not sure if this just means there is poor enforcement or how they would coordinate - since vehicle details were not included in any treetop adventure registration. All in all, we'd...

The course is so fun for beginners and families with kids, but just too easy and boring for the more advanced adventurers and athletic dads compared to other treetop courses in the country.

They have 2 courses they rate the most difficult which they call “Black Diamond” courses. I would say the hardest black Diamond felt more like an intermediate level. That specific course can have like a 10 minute wait per section because the people crossing it can be exceedingly slow. The course became a drag when an overweight teenager got stuck on an obstacle because she was too tired to even stand up. Then, it took a long time for her to get help. After this teenager got pulled off, a young child did the same “problematic” section without any help. I guess Black Diamond means too hard for couch potatoes, but easy enough a slim kid can do it?!?

Ziplines were rather short compared to other parks too.

Furthermore, safety is not necessarily #1 in their book. They have one person talk to 15 other people on how to put on your own harness. The person spoke so fast (as fast as the staff on an airplane talking about flight safety) that I and others struggled to keep up with the instructions and weren’t able to put on the harness correctly. If the harness is what’s keeping us from falling, then each individual needs to be inspected with their harness put on correctly and this company does not give you that individualized instruction.

The Tahoe Vista treetop park was a huge let down compared to other parks with faster and longer ziplines and more challenging courses. But if you’re a someone who is a bit afraid of heights or someone with kids that likes monkey bars, I think you...

I've been wanting to do this type of activity with my kids (a six and eight year old), especially after being cooped up for the last three months during COVID. There were great courses - we started with the two beginner courses to get used to things and then my kids immediately wanted to do the intermediate courses, which we did for the rest of our time. The kids wanted to try the advanced courses, but the obstacles on those courses do need the minimum height requirement (reaching obstacles to clear them) for a reason. Everything was laid out really good. Of course the favorite course was the one with around six ziplines on a single run. A course would take about 10-15 minutes to finish, more if there was a group ahead of us but you could pick courses that didn't have anyone on it - the groups are small enough that things weren't overcrowded. The safety brief was a bit quick, but once my kids and I went through the two beginner courses, they were already used to all the rules and protocols. The business was COVID-friendly, requiring masks while moving in groups (and taking them off during activities when groups are separated, the protocols also reinforced only sharing platforms within your group), and they cleaned the helmets and harnesses in between groups. I was pretty exhausted when our time was finally up, even my hands felt like I had left the gym after a back workout. If I go back to Tahoe, I would definitely return here. Huge entertainment value...