Fast Facts

Did you know..?

There are only four steel canopy walks in the world. All are located in Australia. They are: the llawarra Fly Treetop Walk, Southern Highlands NSW; Otway Fly Treetop Walk, Great Ocean Rd Victoria; Tahune Airwalk, Tahune State Forest Tasmania; and Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk, Walpole-Nornalup National Park Western Australia

The Illawarra Fly Treetop walk is 500 metres long with an average height of 25 metres
Knights Tower is 45 metres high
The Treetop walk has a 280km/hr wind speed design
The cantilevers can hold a maximum weight of 28 tonne or 800 wombats!!
The Treetop walk holds an average of 400kg/m2
The Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk is located on 40 acres of private land.

Owners & Operators: The Illawarra Fly is proudly part of Living and Leisure Australia Ltd

Contractors:

Developers: Canopy01
Crisp Bros/Haywards
ABlock Builders
Select Civil
Kevin Mills & Associates
Construction cost was approximately $6.5 million
The treetop walk was pre-fabricated in Launceston (Tasmania) and shipped to Melbourne. 20 trucks were used to transport the sections via road to site, where the structure was assembled and erected.
Commencing in Sept 2007 and completed in February 2008 the Treetop walk took 6 months to construct.
Approximately 30 jobs were created in the construction phase.