Showing posts with label White Water Canyon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Water Canyon. Show all posts

Friday, 12 June 2026

Canada's Wonderland - June 11th, 2026

 Today (June 11th) marked my 3rd visit of the season to Canada's Wonderland!

It was a hot and humid day with moderate crowds. During this visit I managed to get on 13 different rides, including the recently retracked Mighty Canadian Minebuster! It is a truly amazing, super smooth wooden coaster now with the second half of the course retracked during this past off-season! I also noticed they added a small airtime hill before the helix, which is a nice touch!

To cool down, my brother Scott and I took a ride on White Water Canyon, which had both the geysers and the waterfalls operating! It was nice to see them both operating and getting guests wet on this humid day!

Overall it was a great visit despite the rides being shut down due to passing active weather during the last hour and a half of our visit. Be sure to checkout out the photos from our visit, below! 🙂🎢


After visiting Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Kentucky Kingdom the prior week with my mom, it was nice to be back at Canada's Wonderland! Our day at Canada's Wonderland started off as cloudy, but very warm and humid!

Once inside, we made our way over to AlpenFury!

Shortly after 10am, AlpenFury opened for the day! We were on the first few trains of the day. It was lightly raining during our ride!

Up next was a ride on The Bat!

Scott and I then took an intense ride on Shockwave! I love it when the gondola stalls upside down as you head towards the ground!

We then took a ride on Vortex! We sat in the second car today! The swinging once you hit the brake run is insane!

Here's a look at one of the trains on AlpenFury exiting the top hat inversion atop Wonder Mountain!

For our first meal of the day, we ate at lazy bear Lodge and ordered the chicken drumsticks with a side of rice and a ciabatta bun. It was all very tasty and fresh today!

Here's a view of Vortex from the balcony at Lazy Bear Lodge.

After our meal, we ventured over to White Water Canyon! To our surprise and delight, both the geysers and waterfalls were operating, increasing the chance of cooling down!

I then took a spin cycle ride on Tundra Twister to dry off! I don't normally sit on the left gondola (when looking at the ride from the path) on the far side when riding Tundra Twister. Maybe it's just me, but I always feel this gondola gives more upside down action due to how Tundra Twister is programed to operate! It was fun flipping upside down nearly 150 feet in the air!

I was most excited to get back on Mighty Canadian Minebuster since it reopened over two weeks ago after the second half of it track was replaced! The ride was super smooth and really fun! I was able to ride with my hands up the entire ride, including during the helix! It's just so amazing! I look forward to riding Mighty Canadian Minebuster again on my next visit!

Up next was a thrilling ride on Behemoth!

It was operating quite well today! Although I did notice the red train to be quite rattly compared to the orange and yellow trains.

I then took a ride on Backlot Stunt Coaster. The white train is still being worked on. Hopefully it is fully operational again soon. Despite currently operating with two trains, the crew at Backlot Stunt Coaster kept the line moving!

Here's the red train speeding towards the station!

Here you can see some of the retracking (at the bottom of the photo, just above the white pickup trucks) on the helix of Mighty Canadian Minebuster from the exit path of Backlot Stunt Coaster. I also need to mention that the tunnel on Mighty Canadian Minebuster is now more open, making it less dark and loud than it once was!

The DareDeviler looks great with its new paint scheme!

The hanging baskets in Action Zone are quite beautiful and vibrant!

SledgeHammer is still down, but I heard it was being worked on earlier in the week. I can't wait for it to reopen soon, with its new hydraulic pumps!

Since our last visit on May 21st, a storage bin was put at Swing of the Century. It's an interesting decision as everyone is so used to putting their loose articles along the fence of the ride!

The newly installed double seats are a popular choice among park guests!

Here's a look at the new trains on The DareDeviler! Here's hoping the testing commences soon as I cannot wait to ride!

The paint job on The DareDeviler was touched up since our last visit. The queue structures and station were also repainted. It looks amazing!

The Brew and BBQ Festival is set up in Grande World Expo. It runs on weekends until June 21st.

Scott and I then took a ride on Wonder Mountain's Guardian. It appears all of the cars are fully functional! Afterwards, I purchased a blue ice cream from the Cookie Cafe with my additional 10% off food and beverage pass park available for the month of June.

While eating my blue ice cream cone, the rain came down for a bit. After it let up, Scott and I took a spin on Dragon Fyre just before all the rides went down due to active weather in the surrounding area.

While we waited for rides to hopefully reopen, we ate our second meal at Lazy Bear Lodge. Here are chicken tenders with a side of chili lime corn. It was very delicious!

Here's a closeup look at one of the beautiful hanging baskets near Lazy Bear Lodge.

During my previous visit to the park, I forgot to capture a photo of the new path that leads to the hill behind Lazy Bear Lodge. It looks quite nice!

The only ride open during our last hour and a half of being at the park was the Antique Carousel.

Here's myself, our mom, and Scott taking a spin on this classic.

Before heading out, I took one last photo of The DareDeviler with dark clouds behind it! It's new paint scheme of gold and aqua green sure make it stand out! Hopefully it is open by our next visit! 🙂


Thursday, 23 May 2024

Canada's Wonderland - May 23rd, 2024

 What a lovely day it was to be at Canada's Wonderland for my second visit of the season! The weather was perfect and the park was not busy. Today I managed to get on a total of 21 different rides, with Scott joining me on many of them!

Be sure to enjoy the photos of my day at Canada's Wonderland!🙂


It was a beautiful morning as my brother Scott, our Mom, and I approached the park. The temperature was a very comfortable 18°C!

On our visit today, the landscaping team at the park was putting together the iconic floral Canadian flag on International Street as you enter the park. A fun fact is that the park opened on May 23rd, 1981, making the park officially 43 years old as of today!

My first ride of the day was The Bat! I always enjoy going backwards through the loop on the return trip!

After getting on The Bat and Vortex, it was time for Wonder mountain's Guardian, which is celebrating it's 10th year of operation this year! Where has the time gone?!?
From 2014 through 2023, loose articles could not be taken into the queue. Well, for 2024 the park has installed a bin system in the station, similar to that of Yukon Striker's bin system! It is a great improvement and works very well for Wonder Mountain's Guardian! 

A little while after we headed over to Action Zone to get rides on Sledge Hammer, Behemoth, and Backlot Stunt Coaster.

For this season, it appears that White Water Canyon has returned to opening at 11am daily instead of at 12pm on weekdays and 11am on weekends as introduced last season. Keeping the opening time consistent to what it has been for many years causes less confusion for guests. 

White Water Canyon has been operating at the park for the last 40 years now! It appears the park has done some adjustments to the ride including an improvement of the rapids (making them larger), adding water geysers before the tunnel, making the waterfalls shoot out farther than in pervious years, and adding replacing the buckle seatbelts with Velcro seatbelts. All of the improvements mentioned are greatly appreciated!

Since my last visit to the park, Viking's Rage reopened after its refurbishment. 

As mentioned in my last trip report, I noted that the refurbishment for Viking's Rage consisted of a new paint job and a new electric drive motor. The old hydraulic two wheel drive system was replaced with a single wheel electric drive motor system. The new motor system starts swinging the boat in an interesting way, but on a positive note, the boat starts to swing higher much faster than before!

After a dew more rides, I headed over to Flight Deck and Time Warp in Grande World Exposition of 1890 for my first rides of the season as I did not ride them last time. Flight Deck was tolerable today, while Time Warp was painful as usual. 🤣

The 2024 season marks 20 years since Time Warp (formerly Tomb Raider - The Ride from 2004 through 2007) debuted at Canada's Wonderland. I tend to ride it about 1-2 times per season despite how rough it is! Before riding it, I shared a photo of it on my Instagram story recognizing its 20th anniversary, tagging some amusement park enthusiast friends to come ride it 20 times in a row for its 20th anniversary. It definitely caused some laughter amongst those who I tagged in the story as none of us would ever partake in such a celebration given how awful Time Warp rides!🤣 A screenshot of the story is below!



After getting bashed on Time Warp, I took a spin on the Antique Carousel with my brother Scott and our Mom. While the Antique Carousel is beautiful, the floor definitely needs a good cleaning!

While in line for Swing of the Century, I noticed many small lilac shrubs had been planted around the ride where the trees were removed last year. The area will be very beautiful once they grow big!

Later in the day I took a spin on Tundra Twister. Today's ride was not very thrilling, but offered a nice view!

While waiting to ride Tundra Twister, I got a good view of the loading platform for the all-new for 2024 Moosehorn Falls water slide in Splash Works. They now have a good portion of the boomerang wall built as seen while riding Behemoth earlier in the day.

Behemoth was riding extremely well in the warm weather!

After a ride on Tundra Twister and another ride on White Water Canyon, I went to go fill my water bottle at the washroom nearby. I was disappointed to see that the water bottle tap installed last year (and was there up to two weeks ago) was removed and replaced with a basic drinking fountain tap, making it difficult to fill up water bottles. Hopefully this isn't permanent as the other tap was very useful!

As the park wasn't too busy and was mostly filled with school groups, we headed over to Kidzville to get our annual ride on Silver Streak. It is a nice family inverted coaster that I enjoy riding every so often.

One of my final rides of the day was on Wilde Knight Mares in Medieval Faire. While waiting to board, I noticed a goose resting on the roof on a building next to Wilde Knight Mares. I wouldn't call it a relaxing place to sit, but the roof is definitely away from everyone else! 😂

After another great day filled with fun and thills, we decided it was time to head out! Somehow the sunlight added a natural filter to our photo, which turned out rather well, making it kind of magical! 🙂