Toronto Canada's Wonderland Amusement Park
Canada’s Wonderland was the first major theme park in Canada, and today it is the largest theme park in the country. The park provides a great day of fun and excitement with something for everyone to enjoy! It is just north of Toronto and has been the most visited amusement park in North America for many consecutive years. The 134 hectares (330 acres) park opened in 1981 and has approximately 4 million visitors per year.
The park’s centerpiece is the massive Wonder Mountain at the top of International Street, complete with a huge waterfall and a roller coaster that races around and through the mountain. Canada’s Wonderland ranks second in the world for its number of rollercoasters. The park has seventeen coasters and is tied with Ohio’s Cedar Point with seventeen, and the park with the most roller coasters is Six Flags Magic Mountain in California with nineteen.
In 2008 Wonderland introduced the Behemoth roller coaster, a steel hypercoaster built by Bolliger & Mabillard, with a maximum height of 70 metres(230 feet) and a top speed of 124 km/h (77mph). In 2012 Bolliger & Mabillard installed the first Giga coaster, the Leviathan, with the distinction of being the tallest and fastest coaster in Canada and still ranks as one of the tallest and fastest in the world. In 2019 the Yukon Stryker opened, coinciding with the opening of the Frontier Canada area. The Yukon Stryker is record-breaking as the tallest, fastest, and longest Dive coaster; it stands 75 metres tall, reaches speeds of 130 km/h, and drops into an underwater tunnel in the centre of the Vortex helix. The Yukon Stryker, Leviathan, and Behemoth are the main thrill coasters, but the park offers loads more adventurous thrill rides.
The Coasters and over 20 other high adventure rides are interspersed throughout the park giving guests high adventure in each park section. Over 70 thrilling rides and coasters require guests to be a certain height to ride, so guests wear height wristbands to determine which they can ride. Some rides require smaller guests to be accompanied by a supervising companion. The Rides have a thrill rating system from 1 (Low) up to 5(Aggressive). Some of the Thrill rides with the highest thrill rating include The Fly, The Bat, Thunder Run, The Vortex, Time Warp, and the Wild Beast.
Canada’s Wonderland is an excellent place for families to spend a day and a great place to start is in KidZville and Planet Snoopy, both designated children’s areas. Some of the family-friendly rides in Planet Snoopy are Beagle Brigade Airfield, Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, Snoopy’s Space Race, the Ghoster Coaster, Character Crousel, Woodstock Express, and the Pumpkin Patch. Some rides in KidZville include Silver Streak, Swing Time, Blast Off, Flying Eagles, and Taxi Jam. Children may get the chance to meet one of their favourite Peanuts characters in the KidZville Playhouse theatre.
The best place to be on a super hot summer day is at Canada’s Wonderland Splash Works (20 acres) water park. It opened in 1992, featured Whitewater Bay, the largest outdoor wave pool in Canada, and boasts 16 water slides. Best of all, the Splash Works water park entrance is included in the price of admission to Canada’s Wonderland. Splash Works is open from late May to early September. Families can take a ride on the Lazy River, Super Soaker, Splash Station, or spend time in the Pump House children’s play area. Try The Black Hole, Mountain Bay Cliffs, Muskoka Plunge, and Typhoon for more adventurous rides. With over 7,570,000 litres of water, Splash Works offers all guests a fantastic fun way to beat the heat and take a plunge!
Canada’s Wonderland has over 200 attractions and is home to eight themed park areas, including the Medieval Faire with a medieval European theme in the building and rides. The International Festival features Alpine-themed midway games and rides. Frontier Canada, a gold-rush-themed area. The Grande World Exhibition of 1890 resembles a 19th-century world fair, and the Action Zone offers high action rides on the Time Warp, Swing of the Century, or the Flight Deck.
Canada’s Wonderland is home to some extra extraordinary seasonal events such as food festivals and a month-long Canada Day festival called Celebration Canada. Each autumn, the park hosts Halloween Haunt, which transforms into Canada’s largest haunted theme park with over 300 hundred roaming monsters, six scare areas, nine walk-through mazes, and live shows. New in 2019 is WinterFest, which fills the park with the sights, sounds, experiences, and foods of the Christmas Season. There are magnificent displays with millions of shimmering lights and lavish holiday displays.
Canada’s Wonderland is the best and biggest amusement park in Toronto and Canada. It offers something for everyone from the food and wine festivals, Whitewater Bay wave pool, Snoopy’s Space Race, to the record-breaking Yukon Stryker rollercoaster. It promises to be a day of unforgettable fun for kids of all ages.
Check out the Toronto CN Tower which is in Toronto ON too.
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