NewsPlusNotes: California's Great America to Retire Loggers Run Flume Ride on October 29th

Sunday, October 15, 2017

California's Great America to Retire Loggers Run Flume Ride on October 29th

Another one bites the dust, sadly. It was announced by California's Great America that their log flume, known as Loggers Run, will cease operations forever on October 29th. That is the final day of California's Great America's regular season, with WinterFest still to come.

The park made the announcement by posting this video on social media:

As the video states, Loggers Run originally opened in 1976 and was designed by Arrow Dynamics - the manufacturer of most log flume rides in the U.S. Sadly the useful life of many of these rides is ending, and we are seeing them removed more and more often. This is sad, but understandable as the park has big plans for the future.

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Loggers Run is literally intertwined with Boomerang Bay, the theme park's included water park. The flume runs around several of the slides, including Down Under Thunder, Tasmanian Typhoon and Didgeridoo Falls, boxing them in and also taking up real estate adjacent to them.

One would guess that the water park will be rethemed and renamed during the park's upcoming expansion, and the planning documents show additional water slides near where the flume runs today. These factors combined probably sealed the fate Loggers Run.

Stop by the park over the new two weekends to take in your final rides!

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