GRAND RAPIDS — “It feels like I’m flying,” says Emily Daum of the zip line she got for her 9th birthday last fall. And that made it something every parent searches for: one of the coolest birthday ...

The day after Christmas 10-year-old Matthew Cox was playing in the backyard of his cousins’ house when terror struck. Kara and Chris Dupill of Shagbark Road are ...

Chris and Lynn Frank racked their brains to come up with a plan to get their four boys off their electronic devices and outside this summer. What they came up with was a zip line. Since last weekend, ...

After gliding through the treetops on a cable at a park in the Adirondacks, Holly Swanson wondered if she could replicate the fun in her parents’ backyard. Turns out it was easy, she said. After a ...

LITTLE ROCK — After gliding through the treetops on a cable at a park in the Adirondacks, Holly Swanson wondered if she could replicate the fun in her parents’ backyard. Turns out it was easy, she ...

Just about any kid would be thrilled to be gifted with an outdoor getaway that includes hammocks, a zip-line, a curving slide, a rock climbing wall, a library stocked with more than 300 graphic novels ...

COURTESY RON DAHLQUIST PHOTOGRAPHY A rider takes off on Line 7, named Wailele. » Notes: Minimum age is 10, and a weight range of 80 to 260 pounds is strictly enforced. Participants must be able to ...

Rick Rice tests out the zip line on Darren Danielson’s property outside of Duluth, Minn. When the Danielson family decided to build a zip line on the property, they thought big – and high. After ...