Santa margarita zip line

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Ride side-by-side with a friend on a tandem ziplines, fly over Pinot Noir vines, zip over pine trees and through an archway of companion oaks, and make countless memories! In addition to six incredible ziplines, you will also take a walk across a deep canyon on a narrow, foot suspension bridge between our first and second ziplines.

This tour involves even more than that, however, as our zipline tour also includes a guided tour to the historic Santa Margarita Ranch! The total time of this tour ranges from 2 to 2.

Your Tour includes six epic ziplines that soar over vineyards, valleys, and mountains. Your adventure starts now! Our newest, longest and highest zipline is also double the fun! Zip right alongside a friend or family member on two tandem 2,foot lines—the ultimate adrenaline rush to kick off your tour.

Take a leap of faith on the Renegade as you step off the edge of a tall hillside and find yourself gliding 1, feet over a broad valley before landing on the oak-studded flanks of the Santa Lucia Mountains. Try to touch the treetops on the Woodlander as your soar for feet right over the canopies of native blue and white oak trees before descending into a mountainside forest. The Hilltopper really gets your blood pumping, sending you across a downslope for a fast and furious feet out of the forest and onto a rocky outcropping with panoramic vineyard views.

Enjoy a picturesque foot high-speed ride under a natural archway of companion oaks—and try your hand at dropping a bean bag into an awaiting bucket for a chance to win some Margarita Adventures schwag! When installing the landing point of our Double Barrel, there was only one hitch—a deep canyon that separated it from the next zipline. The Roaring '20s brought automobiles streaming down El Camino Real, their dashing drivers stopping to fuel up at one of the town's six gas stations, rest their weary heads at the motor inn, lift a pint at one of the various taverns and play a little pool.

It's a sleepy burg now, with a population of 1,, but there has always been something special about this place. Robert Mondavi certainly thought so when he took out a year lease on the Santa Margarita Ranch in and began planting grapes in earnest.

Surrounded by ancient peaks and graced with multiple microclimates, this unusual land boasts five distinct soil types, including an ancient sea bed, where gigantic fossilized oyster shells emerge from the earth with every shake and tremor. Today, some acres of this 14,acre cattle ranch are planted with an astonishing 16 varieties of grapes, from grenache noir to muscat blanc, petit verdot, cabernet and pinot noir - a great favorite with the six black bears that call this rugged valley home.

They don't bother the cattle, and they leave the other grapes alone, our voluble tour guide, Gary, tells us during the ranch and zip line tour, offered through Margarita Adventures.

But one bear can put down pounds of pinot noir grapes in a single sitting. They won't touch cab," Gary says, as the van bumps and bounces down a dirt road. They only eat pinot. We have hit the zip line in the middle of winter, when the breezes are brisk and the closely pruned vines nestle close to the trellis.

Streak across the Pinot Express zip line at the peak of harvest, Gary says, and you can smell the sweet musky grapes from feet in the air - which brings us back to the wine-tasting possibilities. Santa Margarita's grapes are sold to wineries from Santa Barbara to Napa, but a small, prized percentage is held back for Mike Sinor, the winemaker for the ranch's Ancient Peaks Winery.

The glory days of buzzing bistros, hotels and taverns is long over, but Santa Margarita still boasts two eateries - "one is open only during the day," Gary says, "the other only at night. Jeff and Lindsay Jackson's steakhouse is cash only there's an ATM across the street with a cool country vibe, a Patsy Cline and Hank Williams-centric soundtrack and unbelievably delicious food - elk medallions, for example, and roast chicken.