HOCKING HILLS, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Until this year, you had to go to Alaska, to the Rockies or Central America to fly through the trees on a zip line.

Earlier this fall, NewsChannel 3 reporter Randy Yohe ventured just north of Athens, Ohio, to the scenic Hocking Hills for a tree canopy tour.

"I think of a canopy as way up high in the trees, and that's where we are," said Mike MacTurk, a tourist from Canton, Ohio. "It's every bit of what I expected."

A forest network of 10 zip lines and four sky bridges gives most canopy tour adventurers a never before seen perspective of the Hocking Hills at heights up to 80 feet above ground. Trained zip guides help participants gear up and "swing" through the trees like modern day Tarzans.

"It's more than I hoped for," said Jim Tidd of Pittsburgh. "It's good and safe."

Randy met zip liners on the Hocking Hills canopy tour from as far away as Europe, Kansas and Wisconsin. The owners said they plan to expand their forest network and will start zipping again this spring.