Canada's Wonderland - August 13th, 2025

On Wednesday, August 13th, I made my seventh visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland! It was quite hot and humid, so we only spent about 7 hours at the park. Regardless, it was a great time as I managed to get on 12 different rides! My brother Scott and our mom joined me today.

Be sure to enjoy the photos from my visit! 🙂

We arrived at Canada's Wonderland just after 9:30am.

Since it is now August, the promoting of Halloween Haunt is now in full swing as it begins in just over a month from now. 
New this year for Halloween is The Conjuring Beyond Fear maze, which is an upcharge attraction. Also new this year, guests attending Halloween Haunt will need to purchase a Haunted Attractions Pass to access the mazes, unlike in previous years. 
While some may disagree to make the mazes an upcharge to Halloween Haunt, I kind of agree with this move as it will possibly reduce the over crowding of the mazes and hopefully reduce the vandalism and mischief in the mazes that often occurs. 

To start our day, Scott and I made The Bat our first ride of the day. It was actually quite smooth today!

After The Bat, we headed over to Drop Tower. Drop Tower was closed during our past few visits, so it was great to freefall once again!

After freefalling at speeds up to 100 km/h, we went to Wilde Knight Mares. I don't tend to ride it very often, so it was nice to take a spin on it today.

With Leviathan's line being around 30 minutes, we took a ride on it! It provided a great ride today!

After an exhilarating ride on Leviathan, we boarded Vortex. The line was long, but moved quickly! I always enjoy the swinging on this rare suspended coaster! 

Afterwards, we went to Lazy Bear Lodge for lunch. For my first meal of the day, I ordered hickory smoked chicken with a side of chili lime corn. It was really good and not spicy, but sweet, which was great! 

After having a great meal, I walked across to Cookie Café and ordered a broken cookie ice cream sundae. It was quite good and had crispy chocolate chip cookie and ice cream cone pieces mixed into vanilla ice cream.

To cool off, Scott and I rode White Water Canyon.

To dry off, I took a spin on Tundra Twister. Today's ride featured a head dive towards the ground!

Scott and I then rode Mighty Canadian Minebuster. The line was quite long, so we used one of our one-time, single use Fast Lane passes for renewing our season pass recently to get on quickly. Our ride on Mighty Canadian Minebuster was just as great as our last with the retracking that occurred earlier this year!

While passing through Action Zone, I was surprised to see Chicken Shack open today! I am quite certain that it hadn't been open in over two years! 

Sledge Hammer was unfortunately closed today. Luckily it had been operating during all of our previous visits. 

With Sledge Hammer closed, we decided to ride Behemoth. It was filled with air-time goodness as always! 

While passing through Grande World Exposition of 1890, Scott and I took a spin on Swing of The Century. 

Afterwards, we took a ride on Antique Carousel with our mom. 

It still saddens me to see Grande World Eatery closed. I don't completely understand why they closed it down last month, but I guess it is to save money. Hopefully it opens again in the not so distant future! 

While we didn't ride AlpenFury today, I captured some photos of it, such as this one of the train passing through the skyflyer loop!

We made our way to Medieval Faire where I rode Dragon Fyre and then Scott joined me for another ride on Drop Tower. Afterwards, I headed back to Lazy Bear Lodge for my final meal of the day. The ribs and smashed potatoes were decent.

After a fun and hot day at the park, we decided to head home! 🙂