Myrtle Beach Zipline Adventures, 321 9th Avenue North (Myrtle Beach): January 2024 7 comments
When the Myrtle Beach Pavilion closed on 30 September 2006, it ripped the beating heart of out the city, and Myrtle Beach has never recovered. The site, once a people magnet, sat vacant for several years but was finally leased by Burroughs & Chapin to this zipline operation. I understand the difference between a property bringing in no money vs some money, but as a draw, from a civic standpoint it was not really a replacement.
In January of 2024, B & C declined to renew the lease, and the attraction shut down, with the pieces now being disassembled and the lot cleared. The story, as reported by The Sun News, doesn't make complete sense. The main mystery is why the zipline operator wanted to stay on when he claims the operation was never profitable. A subsidiary mystery is why B & C chose now:
He confirmed that the lease for Myrtle Beach Zipline Adventures contained language that allowed Burroughs & Chapin to remove the zip line if the company ever chose to build something else on the former Pavilion land.
That would imply that something new is in the works for the site, but aside from that bit of leading language, there are no details.
The only zip I have been on was The Canyons in Florida, which I quite enjoyed, so I thought I might get around to this one some year, but in the event I guess not.
Here is WPDE on the teardown, and here is WBTW.
Finally, here is a promotional video for the site:
7 Responses to 'Myrtle Beach Zipline Adventures, 321 9th Avenue North (Myrtle Beach): January 2024'
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Dan R
31 Mar 24 at 7:27 am
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I don't know why they ever thought this was going to be a profitable business. The name alone indicates where the problem was. There's no real "adventure" in just going across a flat lot. Most adults weren't interested because it was a boring course, and most parents weren't interested in it for their kids due to price.
They should have never done away with the Pavilion. Then again, at this point I think it would be gone by now even if it had stayed. Myrtle Beach just isn't the same place it once was. The larger hotels have taken over and ruined a good chunk of the nostalgia families came back for every year; and there's so much crime and ill-behaved people running amok that a lot of people just want nothing to do with it anymore.
Gypsie
31 Mar 24 at 6:49 pm
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Gypsie - I was thinking the exact same thing about the lack of adventure in zipping across a featureless field. :/
Payne
31 Mar 24 at 8:03 pm
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If you just say "Myrtle Beach", it often gets a certain unpleasant reaction from people. Similar to "North Charleston".
Robin
1 Apr 24 at 12:40 am
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I'll say it since no one else will..."Dirty Myrtle". There! Done! Ha!
Beth
1 Apr 24 at 8:03 am
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I have been going to the beach my whole life. Had a family place in garden city that got destroyed during hugo. Have seen the changes in myrtle beach over the years. Changes every city has had (just look at this webpage). But i will say that over the past 10 years or so i have been going to myrtle beach about 4-5 times a year and staying right in the middle of everything. Aside from traffic at times we have had an absolutely wonderful time every time we have gone. Nothing bad has ever happened to us (we don't do stupid stuff either) and walking on the beach is awesome. For so much of it that is different , so much is the same. I still think it is a great place to go. We are lucky to have a beach like that (grand strand) in our state. Do i sometimes wish that it would still look like the pictures of me and my brother on the beach in the 70s where you could only see a few houses in the distance? sure. but things change everywhere. the middle of myrtle beach has never been the quiet, low key place to go to at the beach anyway. it is what it is.
brett
1 Apr 24 at 9:30 am
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I'm proud to say I've been visiting the Carolina coast since 1987. I learned to surf there. (I still go rent a board and get the hell beaten out of me, because surfing is amazing) I learned about girls there. I took day trips with friends to goof off. It was a great way to grow up.
*IF* you know where to go, and avoid what I would call obvious tourist traps, and bad times to be at the beach, you're probably going to have fun. Good food. Nice locals. Good shopping. Our beaches are clean, unlike New Joisee....
I've been up and down the Carolina coast and almost always had an amazing day in the water. However, things do change and there are certain weeks you should avoid, if you don't want headaches.
My only problem with Myrtle Beach is areas have been taken over by folks from other places *cough OHIO cough*, who didn't like where they lived and are hard at work transforming the place they moved to to be just like the place they left.
Lone Wolf
1 Apr 24 at 8:27 pm
I think there are plans to construct something there. At one point it was going to be an EdVenture, but politics got in the way.