PC Council approves whitewater zipline; run opens next month

 

Phenix City Council gave final legislative approval Tuesday morning to a new zipline that will start in downtown Columbus, cross the Chattahoochee River and land on the Alabama side.

Council, in a 5-0 decision, voted to allow construction on city property just north of the amphitheater.

“I think this shows Columbus and Phenix City are working together,” said Phenix City Mayor Eddie Lowe. “We are blessed in this area. What affects Columbus affects Phenix City and what affects Phenix City affects Columbus. This is an example of that.”

Work on the Columbus side has already begun on the roughly $400,000 project that is being done by Whitewater Express, the lone outfitter on the Chattahoochee whitewater course, and Uptown Whitewater Management LLC, a non-profit corporation that manages the 2.5-mile whitewater park.

The zipline will start on the Columbus side near Bay Avenue and 11th Street, just south of the Synovus corporate headquarters. The 1,200-foot line — in which people will reach speeds in excess of 40 miles per hour — ends on the Phenix City side about ...more