Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The new Skybridge Michigan at Boyne Mountain ski and golf resort is the world’s longest ...
[+] timber-towered suspension bridge at 1,200 feet, and connects two mountain peaks for foot traffic. All around the world, tourists are paying good money to be taken to new heights, and aerial attractions have suddenly become a sky-high trend in travel. As long as there have been skyscrapers there have been views from the top, but the most recent iteration of the scenic observation trend is much different.
The current movement most likely began in 1954, when the small Sugar Bowl ski resort near Lake Tahoe put one of its chairlifts up for sale. Everett Kircher, founder of Michigan-based Boyne Resorts, which operates golf and ski resorts around the country, decided to try something new. He bought the lift and moved it to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, a spot hat has absolutely nothing to do with skiing.
The Gatlinburg SkyBridge is popular day and night But what Gatlinburg does have is multiple tourist attractions and immediate access to the most popular National Park in the United States, Great Smoky Mountains NP. It also has a large drive market Southern population, many of whom had never been on a ski lift. Kircher started running his scenic chairlift rides to an amazing mountaintop viewpoint in the Smokeys, proving the Field of Dreams adage, “If you build it, they will come.
” Tourists have been flocking to the attracting for 70 years.
