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South shore and Lihue · Four operators · Checked November 2026
Kauai Ziplines
Koloa and Poipu on the south shore, Kipu Ranch and the Lihue backcountry: the island's zipline courses side by side, with lines, time, ages, weight limits and prices from each operator's own pages.
The short answer
Which Kauai Zipline?
Four operators sell Kauai zipline courses in November 2026: Koloa Zipline on the south shore, Outfitters Kauai at Kipu Ranch and Kauai Backcountry Adventures near Lihue, and Shaka Zipline, which checks in at the Poipu Shopping Village and sells through booking agencies (its figures here are from adventureinhawaii.com, November 2026, not an operator page). For most visitors, and for any family with children of 7 to 11, the Koloa course is the one to book: 8 lines in about 3 hours, from US$169.63 a person on Viator (checked November 2026), the same price for children. For a whole day that adds a kayak and a waterfall hike, take the Kipu Ranch safari.
Koloa Zipline in Kauai
Koloa Zipline, outside Koloa on the south shore: eight lines in about 3 hours, a safety briefing, snacks, tandem rides for light children. Ages 7 and up.
Check dates →Kipu Zipline Safari - Kayak, Hike & Zipline
Outfitters Kauai, from its Kayak Shack in Lihue: a 2-mile river kayak, two zipline lines and the WaterZip, a waterfall hike and lunch. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; on 8 November 2026 Viator's schedule showed 21 of the 23 such dates from 10 November to 31 December as sold out.
See the safari →Prices, ratings and review counts from the listings (Viator checked November 2026); the price you pay is the one shown at checkout, so read these as dated figures, not a quote.
Three more courses sell outside Viator and GetYourGuide: Outfitters Kauai’s FlyLine, which it calls Hawaii’s longest single line; Kauai Backcountry Adventures’ seven-line course with a swim, for riders 12 and up; and Shaka Zipline’s eight lines at Poipu, for riders 10 and up. The first two sell only on their operators’ own sites, Shaka Zipline through booking agencies. All three are in the table below.
- 5.0 / 5 7578+ Reviews
- 3 hours Duration
- 4 operators Sell zipline courses on Kauai in November 2026: Koloa, Shaka Zipline at Poipu, Kipu Ranch and the Lihue backcountry
- No north shore Every course we found is on the south shore or near Lihue
- Free Cancellation
The Experience
The Course You Can Book Here: Koloa
Koloa Zipline's 8-line tour, the one Kauai course sold on Viator and GetYourGuide as a zipline tour on its own.
Highlights
- Eight lines on Koloa Zipline's course outside Koloa, on Kauai's south shore
- Safety instruction and the zipline gear included
- Tandem rides for children and lighter guests, with a partner or a guide
- Snacks on the course
- One price for adults and for children aged 7 to 17
What's Included
- Zipline Experience
- Snacks
- Tandem ziplining available for kids
- Safety instruction and zipline gear
Not Included: Hotel pick-up and drop off, Photos or videos (available for purchase), Gratuities
How to Pick a Kauai Zipline
Four questions settle it: who is riding, where you stay, how long you have, and whether you want a swim.
Who Is Riding?
Ages and weights decide first: 7 and up at Koloa and Kipu Ranch, 12 and up in the Lihue backcountry. Weight limits run from 60 to 280 lbs depending on the course.
Where Are You Staying?
Koloa is a few minutes from Poipu; Kipu Ranch and the backcountry course are near Lihue. No course we found runs on the north shore.
Lines, or a Whole Day?
Eight lines in about 3 hours at Koloa, one long line in about an hour and a half at Kipu Ranch, or a full day that mixes a kayak, a hike and ziplines.
Book Where It Sells
Koloa and the Kipu safari book here through Viator or GetYourGuide; the FlyLine and the backcountry course sell only on their operators' own sites, and Shaka Zipline through booking agencies.
Photo Gallery
Lines Above the South Shore
Cables, platforms and the green plantation land outside Koloa.
Book Your Experience
Check Koloa Dates and Prices
Koloa Zipline's 8-line tour on the south shore: about 3 hours, one price for adults and children aged 7 to 17. Dates and the live price open on its Viator page; free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Koloa Zipline
Koloa Zipline in Kauai
- 5.0/5 from 7,578 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor
- 3 hours
- From US$169.63 per person; up to 12 a booking, an adult required (checked November 2026)
- Free cancellation: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- Check in at 1 Mahaulepu Road, Koloa: 15 minutes before in the tour details, 30 in the voucher text, so plan for 30; no hotel pickup
The same Koloa 8-line tour is on GetYourGuide too, priced with taxes and fees included: pick a date on its calendar.
Where the Courses Are
South Shore or Lihue
The island's courses on the map, with the drives from the airport, Poipu, Kapaa and Princeville.
Kauai's Zipline Courses Side by Side
The Koloa course, Shaka Zipline's Poipu course, the Kipu Ranch full day, the FlyLine and the Lihue backcountry course: what each costs, how many lines, how long, who can ride and where it starts. Operator figures carry the operator's site and the month we read it; Shaka Zipline's carry the agency page they come from.
| Feature | BOOK HERE Koloa, south shore (Koloa Zipline) | Kipu Safari, a full day (Outfitters Kauai) | FlyLine, Kipu Ranch (Outfitters Kauai) | Backcountry course, Lihue (Kauai Backcountry Adventures) | Poipu course (Shaka Zipline) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What You Pay | From US$169.63 per person; up to 12 a booking, an adult required (the same for adults and children aged 7 to 17, checked November 2026) | From US$273.80 per adult (checked November 2026); ages 5 to 17 US$263.03; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:45 am | $69 + tax; Zip & Splash, a limited-time fall 2026 offer with the WaterZip, $120 + tax (outfitterskauai.com, November 2026) | $169 a rider, lunch included (kauaibackcountry.com, November 2026) | $159.95 + 4.712% Hawaii tax; the 5-line tour $129.95 + tax (adventureinhawaii.com, November 2026) |
| Lines | 8, including the half-mile Waita line (koloazipline.com) | 2 zipline lines and the WaterZip, with a kayak and a hike | 1, over 4,000 ft, ridden headfirst | 7, down a mountainside into a valley | 8; a 5-line tour on some days |
| Time | About 3 hours | 6 h 30 min | About 1.5 hours; Zip & Splash 2 hours | 3 hours | About 3 hours; the 5-line tour about 2 |
| Minimum Age | 7 | 7 for the ziplines; the day takes ages 5 and up | 7, and at least 4 ft tall | 12 | 10; 8 for the 5-line tour |
| Weight | Up to 280 lbs; light riders may ride tandem | Over 60 and under 275 lbs | 60 to 275 lbs | 100 to 250 lbs | 80 to 260 lbs; 60 to 260 lbs on the 5-line tour |
| Starts At | 1 Mahaulepu Road, Koloa | Kayak Shack, 2494 Niumalu Road, Lihue | 230 Kipu Road, Lihue | 3-4131 Kuhio Highway, Lihue | Check-in at its storefront in the Poipu Shopping Village, 2360 Kiahuna Plantation Drive, Poipu |
| Good to Know | Snacks; tandem rides for children | Lunch, a 2-mile river kayak, a waterfall hike and rope swings | Over 50 mph; about five flights of stairs to the launch | A 4WD ride, a swim and lunch | A 4x4 van up to the course; not for anyone pregnant or with a history of neck or back injury |
| Book On | Viator or GetYourGuide | Viator | outfitterskauai.com only | kauaibackcountry.com only | Booking agencies; we did not find it on Viator or GetYourGuide |
| November 2026 | The 8-line course reopened on 3 November after Hurricane Lowell | Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:45 am; on 8 November Viator's schedule showed 21 of the 23 such dates from 10 November to 31 December as sold out | Running; Zip & Splash is a limited-time fall 2026 offer; the Nui and AdrenaLine courses are not running, marked "Returning summer 2027" on outfitterskauai.com | Running; its home page reads "We are open for business!" | adventureinhawaii.com lists the 8-line tour on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the 5-line tour on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Shaka Zipline's own site did not load |
| Check dates | See the safari |
The courses one by one
Koloa, Kipu Ranch and the Backcountry
Where each course is, what it is like, who it suits, and where it sells.
Where the courses are
Every course we found is in the south-east of the island. Koloa is about 20 km by road from Lihue Airport and a few minutes from the Poipu resorts, where Shaka Zipline checks in at the Poipu Shopping Village. Kipu Ranch is about 10 km from the airport, and the backcountry course meets about 5 km from it, on Kuhio Highway in Lihue. Nothing runs on the north shore: from Princeville the nearest course is about 44 km away. North shore or south shore has the drive times from each resort area.
Koloa: eight lines on the south shore
Koloa Zipline’s course runs over former sugar plantation land outside Koloa, below Mount Haupu. It has 8 lines, including the half-mile Waita line, and on koloazipline.com it is “the longest ziplining tour in Kauai” (November 2026). The tour takes about 3 hours with a safety briefing, called Ground School on GetYourGuide, snacks on the course, and tandem rides for children and light riders. Riders must be 7 or older and weigh no more than 280 lbs.
It is the one Kauai course you can book here as a zipline tour on its own, on Viator or on GetYourGuide, and children aged 7 to 17 pay the adult price. Koloa Zipline reopened the full 8-line course on 3 November 2026, after running a shorter recovery tour following Hurricane Lowell (its own home page, November 2026).
Poipu: Shaka Zipline
Shaka Zipline checks riders in at its storefront in the Poipu Shopping Village and drives them up in a 4x4 van to a course above the south shore. adventureinhawaii.com, an agency, lists a full tour of 8 lines in about 3 hours for riders of 10 or older between 80 and 260 lbs, at $159.95 plus 4.712% Hawaii tax, and a shorter 5-line tour for riders of 8 and up. It sells through booking agencies; we did not find it on Viator or GetYourGuide. Shaka Zipline’s own site did not load when we checked, so these are the agency’s figures, read in November 2026 and matching two other agency listings, not an operator page.
Kipu Ranch: the FlyLine and the safari day
Outfitters Kauai runs its ziplines on Kipu Ranch, a private ranch near Lihue below the Haupu ridge. Its FlyLine is a single line of more than 4,000 ft, ridden headfirst in a harness at over 50 mph, and on outfitterskauai.com it is “Hawaii’s longest zipline”. On its own the FlyLine is $69 + tax and about an hour and a half; Zip & Splash, a limited-time fall 2026 offer on outfitterskauai.com, adds a WaterZip into a freshwater pool, for $120 + tax and about 2 hours. Riders must be 7 or older, at least 4 ft tall and between 60 and 275 lbs. Both sell only on outfitterskauai.com (November 2026).
Outfitters’ two longer courses, Nui and AdrenaLine, were marked “Returning summer 2027” on its own site when we checked in November 2026, so neither is in the comparison.
The day you can book here is the Kipu Zipline Safari on Viator: 6 hours 30 minutes from the Kayak Shack at Nawiliwili, with a 2-mile river kayak, two zipline lines and the WaterZip, a hike to waterfalls and rope swings, and lunch. It runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The Lihue backcountry: seven lines and a swim
Kauai Backcountry Adventures takes riders by four-wheel-drive vehicle into former plantation land in the island’s interior, then down seven lines to a stream in the valley, where the tour ends with a swim and lunch. It takes 3 hours and costs $169 a rider. It is the strictest course on age and weight: 12 and up, between 100 and 250 lbs. It sells only on kauaibackcountry.com (November 2026), and the same company runs a mountain tubing tour; tubing or ziplining compares the two.
Before you choose
- Ages and weights first. They are firm on every course; the limits side by side has each one.
- Longest depends on what you count. One line or a whole course: the longest zipline in Kauai sorts the claims.
- Prices. From $69 + tax for one line to a full day on Viator at US$273.80 for an adult; prices compared sets out what each includes.
- Hurricane Lowell. The storm struck Kauai in September 2026. Check each course’s dates on your booking; the statuses above are from the operators’ own sites in November 2026.
The Koloa Course: Eight Lines
Koloa Zipline's 8-line course outside Koloa: about 3 hours, ages 7 and up, the same price for adults and children.
Check dates on ViatorKauai Ziplines: Questions
How many courses, the longest line, the north shore, ages and weights, prices, tubing and the hurricane.
Four operators sell zipline courses in November 2026: Koloa Zipline on the south shore, Outfitters Kauai at Kipu Ranch and Kauai Backcountry Adventures near Lihue, and Shaka Zipline, which checks in at the Poipu Shopping Village. Shaka Zipline's own site did not load when we checked, so its figures come from the agency page adventureinhawaii.com (November 2026), not from an operator page.
The FlyLine at Kipu Ranch, over 4,000 ft in one line, by Outfitters Kauai's own claim to Hawaii's longest zipline (outfitterskauai.com, November 2026). Koloa Zipline's claim is for the longest tour: 8 lines, including the half-mile Waita line. See the longest zipline in Kauai.
Not one we could find in November 2026. Princeville Ranch's own site lists horseback lessons only. The courses are on the south shore at Koloa and near Lihue; from Princeville the nearest is about 44 km by road. See north shore or south shore.
From age 7 at Koloa and Kipu Ranch, from 10 at Shaka Zipline in Poipu, from 12 on the Lihue backcountry course. Weight: up to 280 lbs at Koloa, 60 to 275 lbs at Kipu Ranch (and at least 4 ft tall), 80 to 260 lbs at Shaka Zipline (an agency's figures), 100 to 250 lbs in the backcountry. See the limits side by side.
From $69 + tax for the single FlyLine to US$273.80 for the Kipu safari day on Viator (checked November 2026). The Koloa 8-line tour is from US$169 a person with taxes and fees included on GetYourGuide (checked November 2026); the backcountry course is $169 a rider with lunch (kauaibackcountry.com, November 2026); Shaka Zipline's 8-line tour is $159.95 + 4.712% Hawaii tax (adventureinhawaii.com, November 2026). See prices compared.
For children aged 7 to 11, the Koloa course: from 7, with no minimum weight, and light children ride tandem. The FlyLine also takes 7-year-olds who are at least 4 ft tall and 60 lbs; Shaka Zipline's 8-line tour starts at 10 and the backcountry course at 12. See which Kauai zipline is best.
Yes, with Kauai Backcountry Adventures, which runs both and sells them on its own site only. Tubing takes ages 5 and up; its zipline starts at 12. See mountain tubing or ziplining.
Most courses were running in November 2026. Koloa Zipline reopened its 8-line course on 3 November 2026; Outfitters Kauai runs most of its tours again, with its Nui and AdrenaLine courses marked as returning in summer 2027; Kauai Backcountry Adventures' home page reads "We are open for business!" (each operator's own site, November 2026).
Still have questions? Email us at info@kauaiziplines.com