Canada's Wonderland- September 9th, 2017

Saturday, September 9th marked the eighth visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland for Scott, our Mom, and I. It was slightly cool but the sun was shining nice and bright! Luckily for us the crowds were manageable so we were able to get on many rides during our visit. Be sure to check out the photos below of our great day at Canada's Wonderland!

When this photo was captured on our visit, Halloween Haunt was just around the corner. Now, since time has passed, it is now here, weekend nights in October to be exact. So, if you're willing to be frightened at wits end, then Halloween Haunt is a great place for you to be!

The flowers alongside International Street sure have grown over the summer!

While we were waiting for the rides to open at 10am, I captured this view of Dragon Fire, Leviathan, and a crane across the street at the construction site of the new hospital.

After riding rides, getting a bite to eat, and riding more rides, it was time to ride Skyhawk. Today, I was four flips shy of my personal record of 44, which I had achieved during my previous visit to the park!

Here is an afternoon view of International Festival on the far side of Wonder Mountain.

Timberwolf Falls was still splashing those who dared to take a ride on this somewhat cool day! 

Here is one of Wild Beast's trains peaking through some trees looking from Planet Snoopy.

Here is the train on The Bat going backwards at high speeds!

Planet Snoopy and Kidzville were starting to get into the festive mood of the season.

If you look closely through The Bat's cobra roll inversion, you can see a train heading up Leviathan's lift hill.

Another sign of Fall stretching along the back of the Medieval Faire Entrance.

After a day of fun and thrills, it was time to make the voyage back home! Thanks for viewing my photos of our great day at Canada's Wonderland! :-)

Canada's Wonderland- March 1st, 2016

Here is a small report from my first visit to Canada's Wonderland during the off-season. It was a cold and blowing late Winter's day. I was there with a couple of group members to conduct an interview with a staff member at the park in regards of the new installations for 2016, (Skyhawk and Flying Eagles) for a college project. It was definitely an interesting experience seeing the rides standing idle, waiting for the Spring thaw, which interestingly came later than usual. I suppose that's because the beginning of Winter was unusually warm. Below are some photos that I had captured on that cold snowy day!

Here is Dragon Fire on a cold March day!

Here is a further away shot of Dragon Fire and Leviathan waiting for opening day!

Here is Drop Tower looking down a snow covered employee pathway.

Here is a view of Drop Tower and Leviathan facing a snowy morning!

Here's Leviathan's first drop standing 306 feet tall!

Here is Wild Beast as seen from in front of the maintenance shop.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my photos of Canada's Wonderland from March 1st, 2016! Please be sure to check back for more trip reports from over the past couple of years!

Canada's Wonderland- October 15th, 2016

On Saturday, I had made my 12th and final visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland. The day was beautiful and quite enjoyable as Scott and I were able to ride many rides, even some more than once! We arrived at 9:20am and left around 4:30pm. The park was also decorated very nicely as Halloween Haunt happens on weekends up until Halloween from 7pm-12am. Today was definitely a great day to end my season of thrills!

We arrived at the park shortly after 9:20am on this slightly cool and beautiful day!

This is still an amazing view to begin your day at Canada's Wonderland especially with the Halloween Haunt decorations out in front of the Royal Fountains. 

Here is a broken coffin with a head being eaten by a cat!

Here is a monument which is located within the graveyard at the front of the park.

Here is a view of the rest of the graveyard where the floral Canadian flag resides throughout the majority of the season.

This is an almost ground view of some bodies crawling along the ground!

Here's the keeper of the graveyard! He proudly stands tall over his graveyard as eerie music plays!

Here are some more coffins and dead "trees" which litter the graveyard. I believe the park had gathered many leaves and some dead saplings from the White Water Canyon section to create a completely dead feeling for the graveyard!

Here is a really freaky gravestone monument!

Some of these characters who roamed the graveyard looked more lively than others!

After catching many rides throughout the morning, we decided to get a bite to eat. But, before we had, I had captured this shot which is a view of Dragon Fire's corkscrews looking through the employee gate. It happened to be open due to a Halloween Haunt maze which is located back there.

Across from Vortex, nearing the White Water Canyon section of the park, there were these small houses set up. Each house was decorated differently and had it's own unique doorbell sound when the doorbell was pressed.

Here's a shack where it appears that the owner has since long gone but, has never left! ;-)

Here's another one where bones blow in the wind!

It doesn't look like this television has been used in years!

Near the International Marketplace Buffet located in Medieval Faire, there was a cart full of bodies.

I believe someone had gotten a little carried away and personally involved at this burning!

Here's the ogre who guards the Medieval Faire bridge!

Even in Action Zone there were Halloween Haunt displays set up!

I imagine these are rather spooky experiences once night rolls around!

After riding many rides, Scott and I lined up for Orbiter. Here is a shot of some of the trees which had reddened leaves.

Here is another Halloween Haunt monument which can be found nearby Time Warp in Action Zone.

Here is Scott, our Mom, and I standing in front of the International Street graveyard just before we left for the day and the season. :-)

Just as we were leaving, I had captured one last shot of the front gates. I must say that the 2016 season was an amazing one at Canada's Wonderland as I had made 12 visits and greatly enjoyed each visit! It'll be a long and cold six and a half months until I return for the 2017 season but, I'll have all these wonderful memories to cherish as the days get dark and cold.

I thank you for coming along on this journey during these wonderful six months. Be sure to check back soon for flashback photos from vacations I had taken to Kings Island and Dorney Park over the past couple of years! :-)