Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail
As the longest elevated pedestrian loop in the world, The 1.25-mile Treetop Trail brings guests up to 32 feet into the canopy, offering a breathtaking birds-eye view of the zoo and animals below.
There are several “lookouts” along the trail, which serve as areas of interest in which zoo docents inform visitors about the area they’re in or animals they can see. These lookouts will also be used for small-scale musical performances through the zoo’s planned Music in the Trees program. Powering the docent-led talks and musical performances along the trail are UBX Series loudspeakers from Renkus-Heinz
18 UBX4 loudspeakers were installed at the lookouts along the trail. The award-winning UBX Series brings the precise coverage, high intelligibility and renowned sound quality of Renkus-Heinz’s flagship ICONYX loudspeakers into the realm of passive column arrays..
“We needed a loudspeaker that can function in Minnesota’s outdoor environment, which can get down to-25°F in the winter and triple digits in the summer because the trail will be open year-round. Secondly, we needed a loudspeaker with a wide horizontal dispersion that focused the sound on where people’s ears are instead of splashing it all over the place. My previous experience working with Renkus-Heinz’s loudspeakers made me think UBX would be the perfect fit.”
- Jiggs Lee of True North Consulting Group
