On Sunday, July 27th, 2025, my brother Scott and I made our sixth visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland! In the early afternoon, we met up with our friend Amadeo to ride some rides together, including the new AlpenFury! We also got some relief from the heat and humidity by standing on the bridge at TimberWolf Falls twice during the afternoon! 🤣
It was a great day as Scott and I spent the whole day at the park, riding many rides thanks to the smaller than expected crowds. Amadeo, Scott, and I finished our amazing day with a last train of the night ride on Leviathan!
Be sure to enjoy the photos from our visit shared below! 🙂
The humidity was starting to set in as Scott and I arrived at the park just before 9am.
On weekends, the park has early ride time for pass holders for AlpenFury and some of the other rides in AlpenFest. Due to the popularity of AlpenFury, which just opened a little over two weeks ago, the early ride time is really just an opportunity to get in line before the rest of the park opens, causing the line to become even longer.
Since our last visit nearly two weeks ago, a shade structure was recently added to the queue of AlpenFury, providing some relief from the sun!
The only downside with the new shade structure is it doesn't really protect your from the angle of the morning sun. I kind of wish it was a single structure rather than single canopies.
While waiting for AlpenFury, it did have a couple of temporary delays, but the wait was worth it! Scott and I both agreed that AlpenFury rode significantly better this visit than our last visit! It was a great third ride for me!
Here's another shot of the station.
Launching out of Wonder Mountain is still just as insane as it was on my first rides on AlpenFury two weeks ago!
After waiting approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes for AlpenFury, Scott and I headed over to a quiet Action Zone. We got in line for Sledge Hammer, which had a next ride wait. It rode great as usual!
Up next, we got on Behemoth before meeting up with Amadeo! Behemoth had a 20-25 minute wait all day!
Amadeo and I got in line for Windseeker. While in line, I captured this photo looking up the 301 foot tall tower.
After getting back down to the ground from riding Windseeker, we got our first meal of the day at Lazy Bear Lodge. The ribs and smashed potatoes were actually very good this time! The unfortunate part was Lazy Bear Lodge was very busy and the available tables were very dirty, so we walked down to the former Chicken Shack location in Action Zone to find a table.
After our meal, we got in line for Yukon Striker which only had a 30 minute wait. To our surprise, we were able to a front row ride! I guess the heat and humidity was keeping people away!
Up next was a ride on Tundra Twister followed by a ride on Mighty Canadian Minebuster!
After a great ride on Mighty Canadian Minebuster, we got in line for Vortex. I don't mind waiting in a full line for Vortex as the queue is always moving. We got on Vortex in the second car, which was very forceful! I don't often get to ride near the front of the train, so it was fun to experience the forces of Vortex near the front again!
After an awesome ride on Vortex, Amadeo and I rode Shockwave while we waited for AlpenFury to reopen after a lengthy delay. We got many flips and stalls on Shockwave! It was possibly the best ride I had on it so far this year!
After getting off Shockwave, AlpenFury reopened! We quickly got in line as the queue was very short. I was excited for my fourth-ever ride on AlpenFury!
Unfortunately, what we thought was going to be a short wait (of around 40 minutes) turned into a two hour and 20 minute wait due to multiple temporary delays.
As we waited through the temporary delays, I managed to capture some great evening shots of the neighbouring rides as seen from the stairs of AlpenFury.
The wind had picked up in the afternoon, causing Drop Tower to remain closed for the rest of the day. But to my surprise, Windseeker continued to operate all day!
Here's a view of Wilde Knight Mares and Leviathan from the queue of AlpenFury.
After patiently waiting, we had a thrilling ride on AlpenFury. We then quickly headed over to KidzVille for our second meals of the day as the other dining locations were closing for the night. Scott and Amadeo had pizza from Pizza Pizza, while I had a tuna sub from Subway. After eating, we quickly headed over to White Water Canyon before it closed at 9pm for the night!
We ran through the queue to get to the station before they closed it down for the night! We were super grateful for the ride crew for allowing us a ride on it as it was just closing as we got to the platform!
Here we are after our evening ride on White Water Canyon! We all got equally soaked! 🤣
In an attempt to dry off, Amadeo and I rode Lumberjack!
After a fun ride on Lumberjack, Amadeo and I had a night ride on Wilde Beast!
Afterwards, Scott joined us for a night ride on Dragon Fyre. I forgot how forceful of a ride it is at the front of the train!
To finish the night, we rode on the last train of the night on Leviathan!
We waited just as they put the rope across the entrance. The line was half full, making it about a 30 minute wait. Here's a look down the stairs just before getting on for our final ride on the night!
Amadeo, Scott, and I got lucky for our last ride of the night as we rode in the last row of the train! Leviathan seems extremely forceful at night as we experienced very forceful airtime of the first drop and throughout the course of the ride! It was insane as it is something I don't get to experience all that often. Daytime rides are fun, but night time rides are on a completely different level!
It was almost 11pm as we were leaving the park! International Street was rather quiet at this time as most people had left the park by this time!
Here we are in front of the Royal Fountain on International Street before heading out for the night! We had an amazing time hanging out with Amadeo at Canada's Wonderland! Thanks to Amadeo for this photo! 🙂
Here's one final photo of AlpenFury at night! That is all from Scott and I's almost 14-hour visit to Canada's Wonderland!🙂
My fifth visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland was all about AlpenFury!
It started off with Scott and I joining a long line for AlpenFury, the new for 2025 launched roller coaster, which just officially opened this past Saturday, July 12th! With it being the third day of operation for AlpenFury, the longest we waited was 1 hour and fifty minutes in the regular line, which kept moving!
It was well worth the wait as AlpenFury is an amazing launch coaster that launches you out of Wonder Mountain, into a series of 9 inversions spread throughout its layout that heads towards the front of the park and back towards the mountain! I really enjoyed how the train whips through the inversions, making for a really fun and wild ride! 🔥❄
After riding AlpenFury we grabbed some lunch and then rode some other rides and roller coasters as the rest of the park wasn't very busy due to the heat. Also, AlpenFury took in a lot of the crowd!
I would rejoin the AlpenFury line again later in the day for a second ride before leaving for the day! It was a great day filled with two great rides on AlpenFury! I look forward to riding it again!
Be sure to enjoy the photos of AlpenFury from today's visit! 🙂
Scott, our mom, and I arrived in the parking lot just before 9am in anticipation of riding AlpenFury!
Many visitors were eager to ride AlpenFury!
A corporate buyout event had occurred during the morning, so it was interesting watching people ride AlpenFury before the park opened!
Here's a glimpse of the orange train launching out of Wonder Mountain into the first inversion, a top hat element!
Once the rope dropped, Scott and I joined the line for AlpenFury, as our mom waited in the shade. The line was very long, but continuously moved during our wait!
The downside to the queue was the lack of shade. Hopefully a shade structure gets added soon as quite a few guests were affected by the heat while waiting to ride AlpenFury. Two misting fans had been set up to offer some relief from the heat.
The queue is wedged between the AlpenFury station and The Fly in the reimagined AlpenFest.
The station is quite high above the ground!
Here's Scott and I in line for AlpenFury!
The top hat element is visible from the queue.
The underside of AlpenFury's brake run is the only shade in the queue. Hopefully some shade gets added to AlpenFury's queue soon!
When we got in line, we were out the queue, but for the remainder of the day, it was contained within the queue railings and not the temporary fencing seen on the far left side.
The station for AlpenFury is quite detailed, including the light fixtures that have an Alpen theme!
From the stairs, just before entering the station, you can get a great view of AlpenFury's trains being launched into Wonder Mountain!
AlpenFury was manufactured by premier Rides, who over the past 15 years have greatly improved their roller coasters! AlpenFury loads very quickly as the trains are very open and only feature a lap bar restraint!
Here's the blue train going into the depths of Wonder Mountain!
From the stairs leading into the station of AlpenFury, you can get some awesome views of Shockwave!
After an exhilarating ride on AlpenFury, I captured this photo of the station. You can see the small bin system that AlpenFury uses for loose articles.
Once you exit AlpenFury, you head into the Alpen Outfitters gift shop. It has many AlpenFury and Canada's Wonderland souvenirs. Eventually it will be home to on-ride photo sales too!
On the exterior of the store is this beautiful clock with Alpen-inspired figurines. The clock chimes every 15 minutes as the figurines spin around!
Here's a look at the entrance for AlpenFury. While formally the High Striker game building, the structure was originally used as the entrance for Blauer Enzian, before it was moved into Wonder Mountain as Thunder Run in 1986. It's an interesting piece of history and one that works so well!
Here's Scott and I after our first ride on AlpenFury!
For lunch I headed to Lazy Bear Lodge. I ordered the smoked hickory chicken with a side of smashed potatoes. They were really good this time!
After lunch, I captured more photos and a video of AlpenFury!
It is almost as fun to watch AlpenFury as it is to ride!
As for any new ride, they do experience temporary down time. AlpenFury had gone down for a little while in the early afternoon. Here is the blue train running along the track empty.
AlpenFury is quite photogenic, even under a hazy and smoky sky!
The trains gracefully pass through the track over the pathway to Grande World Exposition of 1890. Below is an off-ride video of AlpenFury I made during my visit!
After capturing some photos and a video of AlpenFury, it was finally time to ride some other rides! Scott and I took in a ride on Sledge Hammer, which didn't have much of a wait.
Up next was a lap on Behemoth. It's queue was under 25 minutes!
Afterwards, I took a ride on Tundra Twister which was practically a walk-on. It's hard to believe this majestic ride is two years old!
Afterwards, Scott and I took a ride on White Water Canyon. Unfortunately we didn't get wet while riding White Water Canyon on this hot day! After our ride on White Water Canyon, we tried getting soaked on Timberwolf Fall's bridge, but it went down as we got there! So there was no real cooling down for us during this visit!🤣
AlpenFury reopened, so I joined the queue as Scott and our mom found some shade. The queue was only half-full as AlpenFury had just reopened after being down for a bit.
Here's the orange train going through the top hat element after being launched out of Wonder Mountain!
Unfortunately during my wait in line, AlpenFury went temporarily down twice. With the small delays, I waited one hour and 20 minutes for my second ride on this amazing roller coaster! Here's a look towards Leviathan from the stairs of AlpenFury.
Here's a train full of passengers pulling into the station after an exhilarating ride! on AlpenFury!
Here's a look at the front of the station from the exit side.
After another ride on AlpenFury I headed back to Lazy Bear Lodge to cool off and to enjoy my second meal of the day. I had ribs and smashed potatoes. The ribs were a little over-cooked and a bit dry.
To finish our day at the park, Scott and I took a spin on Swing of the Century.
Here's a look at the blue train on AlpenFury zipping through the Skyflyer loop!
After a successful day at the park, it was time to head home as we were feeling exhausted from the heat! Hopefully more rides on AlpenFury are in my future! 🙂
