The gondolas travel along two 2600 foot 1 3/8" diameter steel cables to Ranger Peak, 5,632 feet (1,717 m) above sea level.
The trip takes about four minutes and lifts riders up 940 vertical feet above the boarding area.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department accepted the donation in 1997 and renovated and re-opened the tramway to the public in 2001.
The tramway was closed indefinitely in September 2018 after the Texas Parks and Wildlife conducted an engineering analysis that concluded "the tram has surpassed its life expectancy and is no longer suited for public use."
TPWD estimated the replacement of the tram would cost millions of dollars and the agency did not have the financial resources to execute a capital construction project of this size at that time.