The **Red Skyride** is an [aerial tramway](/entry/tc-trnsprt-aerial-tramway) at Grouse Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of two primary lifts used to access the resort, along with the Blue Skyride, though the latter is closed and being replaced by a new gondola.

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Red Skyride

View from near the top of the [Grouse Mountain Skyride](/entry/i-red-skyride).

Grouse Mountain Skyride

The **Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group** is an international manufacturer of ropeways and people movers.

Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group

An [**aerial tramway**](/entry/tc-trnsprt-aerial-tramway) is a type of [aerial lift](/entry/tc-aerial-lift) with one or two cabins fixed to a cable. The distinguishing feature of aerial tramways is that the cabins shuttle back and forth between the end stations of the lift in a reversible manner. Aerial tramways are usually built with three steel wire ropes - two for support and one for propulsion. (This is the same rope configuration used by [3S gondola lifts](/entry/tc-trnsprt-cable-3s), but 3S lifts operate with continuous circulation and have detachable cabins).

aerial tramway

In an [aerial lift](/entry/tc-aerial-lift), the **haul rope** is the [wire rope](/entry/tc-wire-rope) that provides propulsion for the vehicles. It moves either continuously or in a reversing fashion (for [tramways](/entry/tc-trnsprt-aerial-tramway)). In [monocable lifts](/entry/tc-monocable-gondola), the haul rope also provides support for the vehicles, whereas in other systems such as [3S lifts](/entry/tc-trnsprt-cable-3s), the vehicles are supported by separate [track ropes](/entry/tc-track-rope).

haul rope

The [Grouse Mountain Skyride](/entry/i-red-skyride).

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The organization or invdividual that manufacturers, assembles, or produces this product.

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For a gondola or similar system, this is the number of gondolas or cabins.

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When this building/system/thing was first opened and began operations.

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The number of passengers that can travel via a specific route or transport system in a given amount of time.

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The route length refers to the actual distance travelled by passengers or goods on the route of a specific means of transport. (For example, on a chairlift, the route length refers to the "inclined length" going up the mountain, which is longer than the distance "as the crow flies" from the starting point to the end point.)

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Description	The Red Skyride is an aerial tramway at Grouse Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of two primary lifts used to access the resort, along with the Blue Skyride, though the latter is closed and being replaced by a new gondola.
Manufacturer	CDoppelmayr/Garaventa Group
Has part	TChaul rope
Opened	1976
Is a	TCaerial tramway
Related images	,
Route Capacity (passengers)	900 pphpd
Route length	1610 m
Vertical Rise	802 m
# of vehicles	2