ArborTrek Canopy Adventures - Zip Line Canopy Tours in Vermont New York and Pennsylvania

Arbortrek is a company built of talented people who are passionate about exploring the natural world, empowering people, and providing individuals, small groups, families, and corporations the opportunity to share an unforgettable adventure together.

Additionally, ArborTrek provides the opportunity for established tour operators, resorts, and land owners with wooded property near tourist destinations or near densely populated areas, the opportunity to enter into the emerging eco-adventure park market with the management experience and financial backing necessary to be successful.

Where did it begin?

It was nearly twenty years ago that co-founder Michael Smith first experienced a ropes course. An avid climber and outdoor enthusiast, Michael was both thrilled by the experience and by the opportunity it presented others to explore new places, learn more about themselves and their group, and to view the World from a new perspective. Following his passions, Michael emersed himself in the trade. Jump forward to 2009. After a successful career as a facilitator, builder, and consultant to other canopy tour and challenge course businesses, Michael partnered with a chronic entrepeneur who had recently experienced a canopy tour in South America and was inspired by the impact it had on himself and his family.

The concept of ArborTrek was quickly born and the search for wild places was started. Over the course of one year, nearly 100 site visits were conducted. ArborTrek opened its first tour in December 2010 at Smugglers' Notch Resort in Vermont and have plans to open many more in the coming years.

What is your mission?

Our mission is to be the premier provider of zip line canopy tours in North America. We believe that through the development of replicable customer service and operational systems, superior staff training and user experience, aesthetic course design, and selection of wild places, that we will quickly become the leading name in canopy adventures.

Our locations will serve to be a place where clients can always come to escape the negative stresses of life and rejuvenate their energies, enjoy the camaraderie of their family and friends, and appreciate the great outdoors. To this end, we strive to create experiences where we are the visitors to the area and where our impacts are minimized.

Company Leadership

Our core business team is drawn from a variety of fields, including: business management, finance, marketing, risk management, challenge courses, canopy tours, corporate training, camping, and more.

Michael R. Smith, President As the President of ArborTrek, Michael is dedicated to providing high-value, small group and family experiences that foster an appreciation for natural world, inspire and rejuvenate the mind, and educate the community on the values of wild places. Michael brings more than 16 years experience in the challenge course industry as a facilitator, builder, manager, trainer, and business consultant and holds degrees in Wilderness Leadership and Master of Training and Development. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies as a business consultant, authored and published climbing guides, worked as a Chief Field Instructor for the Outward Bound School, and manages a modest web design and marketing company focused on the outdoor industry on the side. Through his work as zip line builder and canopy tour consultant, he has helped to design and launch 13 zip-line canopy tours in the United States and Canada, and has consulted with more than two dozen other zip line canopy tour operations on business planning, feasibility, staff development, and marketing. Michael is the moderator of Zipline Nirvana, an online Social Networking site and global directory of zip lines and canopy tours aimed at promoting the growth of the industry.