Cable car · Girdwood, United States
Aerial Tram, Girdwood
Aerial Tram is a cable car near Girdwood, United States. It climbs 619 m over 1.30 km, from 86 m to 705 m above sea level. Between its 4 pylons, the cable runs up to about 159 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
93/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Aerial Tram is scarier than 93% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 7 of 121 in the United States.
- Highest above the ground: about 159 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 464 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.07 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 30°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 931 m of the 1.30 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Aerial Tram is near Girdwood, United States, at 86 m above sea level (60.97010° N, 149.09644° W). From there it runs 1.30 km up to the top station at 705 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,200 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 60 people
- Ride time
- about 3 min
Nearby lines
- Girdwood Hand Tram cable car · 2.9 km away · rises 0 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.