PORT ANGELES — Zipline park proponent Dan Williams today received the land-use permit he needs to build a $1.8 million zipline course and eco-park on 40 acres of commercial forest land in the foothills south of Port Angeles.
Clallam County commissioners voted 2-to-1 to uphold Clallam County Hearing Examiner Christopher Melly’s Dec. 23 decision to grant a conditional use permit to Green Planet Inc. The permit comes with 22 conditions, including a one-way loop for Green Planet passenger vans that will take customers to the site from downtown Port Angeles.
Nils Sundquist appealed the conditional use permit because Lake Dawn Road is too primitive to accommodate the 10-person passenger vans that would make 16 trips per day during a 178-day season.
The vans would travel to the park through the Lake Dawn neighborhood — just outside Olympic National Park — and back to Port Angeles via Black Diamond Road.
Williams, project manager and chief executive officer for Green Planet Inc., wants to operate seven gravity ziplines in the hills near Little River Road.
At the park, the public would harness up and zip down the mountainside along overhead cables ranging in length from 380 feet to 1,586 feet.
With five parking spaces and one single-wide mobile home headquarters, the park would sit on land leased from the state Department of Natural Resources.
