![]() ![]() So I was REALLY excited to check out the enhancements. In my lifetime, I must have been on the log ride 20-30 times. Since he was feeling so bad, he and Dad decided to stay home while I took the Princess to check out the Log Ride and Boardwalk. The day arrived for “family day at Knott’s” and handsome boy had come down with a fever the night before. Over 100 different types of folliage can be seen throughout the ride.The reservoir holds over 400,000 gallons.The original flume and logs are still in in use. ![]() Originally there were 3 taxidermied animals, now there will be around 12 that will be taking over a camping scene – fun, right?.The support beams of the Log Ride are actually disguised as trees throughout the ride.The reopened Timber Mountain Log Ride is now open and you’ll find 40 animated human forms and 12+ recreated animals. In January, Garner Holt Productions of San Bernardino started the revitalization project that is expected to take five months. The much anticipated attraction opened in Jwith screen legend John Wayne taking the inaugural ride. The ride, housed in an eight-story building, includes 24,000 gallons of water that circulates free floating logs past a variety of mechanical figures and taxidermied animals culminating in a forty-two-foot free fall. When we received an invitation to the family media day, the kids were running around jumping up and down.Ī little history: The Calico Log Ride, as it was originally named, takes guests through an 85-foot-high by 330-foot-long mountain range themed to a nineteenth-century lumber camp. With the anticipation of the re-opening of the ride, I have been telling my family about it. Back in May, I was invited to get a sneak peak behind the scenes of the Timber Mountain Log Ride, one of the oldest log flume rides in the country right here in Buena Park, CA at Knott’s Berry Farm.
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