NorthShore Zipline Camp Maui Tour

Kids as young as 5 ride every line on this course, and if anyone decides after the first two ziplines that this isn’t for them, NorthShore refunds the full ticket. That scaredy-cat clause tells you who this tour is built for: families and people who have never clipped into a harness.

Guides who talk first-timers down off the platform

The thing reviewers come back to, over and over, is the guides. They keep the pace easy, explain the gear in plain terms, and have a way of getting a nervous kid (or a nervous parent) onto the first line without making a thing of it. Across over one thousand TripAdvisor reviews the score sits at 4.7, and the praise almost always names the staff before the scenery.

The seven lines run tree to tree through eucalyptus in Haʻikū, linked by giant towers and swinging suspension bridges you cross on foot between zips. Once you are comfortable, the guides let you go freestyle: spin, ride sideways, or lay flat. The padded three-point harness gives you full range of motion, so the freestyle is yours to control, not a gimmick. Plan on about 2 hours start to finish.

Here is the honest part. This is a mellow, fun course, not a high-adrenaline ride. Experienced zipliners say so plainly in reviews, with one describing it as built for small children. If you came to Maui for speed and big drops, the thrill picks in our comparison of all five Maui ziplines will serve you better. If you came with kids, or you are talking yourself into your first zipline, this is the one.

What this costs a family

Adults are $149 and kids ages 5 to 12 are $119. The promotion that makes this the value pick: for every adult ticket, up to six child tickets are half off. A family of two adults and two kids lands well under the rack rate, and nobody pays for nerve they didn’t end up using, thanks to the two-line guarantee. Wear closed-toe shoes, they are required, and skip loose scarves. Riders need to weigh between 40 and 270 pounds. The course zips rain or shine; only lightning or winds over 35 mph cancel a tour.

The WWII base no other Maui zipline sits on

The course runs across Camp Maui, the WWII training base of the 4th Marine Division, land that was closed to the public before this tour opened it. Your ticket includes access to the small on-site WWII museum, and the guides work the history and native-plant notes into the walk between lines. It is the one piece of context no other Maui zipline can offer, and for a lot of families it ends up being the part the kids remember.

Your zipline tour is located on Camp Maui — a historic WWII site, and you get to tour it when you zipline here.. Image: NorthShore Ziplines.

Worth knowing before you book: the scaredy-cat refund is real, and reviewers who used it say it was handled without any fuss after the second line. Cell signal in Haʻikū is patchy, so screenshot your reservation before you leave Kahului, about 25 minutes west

NorthShore Zipline runs its seven-line Camp Maui Tour in Haʻikū on the north shore, on the WWII training base of the 4th Marine Division. The course takes riders from age 5 and up and includes access to an on-site WWII museum on land that was closed to the public before the tour opened it. Across 1,050 TripAdvisor reviews it holds a 4.7, with most of the praise pointing at guides who keep first-timers and young kids at ease.

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