White Water Canyon (Canada's Wonderland)

White Water Canyon
Location	Canada's Wonderland
Opening date	1984
Attractions
Attractions	4 total
Water rides	2
Other rides	1
Shows	1

White Water Canyon is a themed area in the Canada's Wonderland theme park in Vaughan, Ontario. It is located in a dense tree populated area and contains only 4 attractions, the lowest out of all the themed sections at the park. When Canada's Wonderland was being built, plans called for this section of the park to be called Frontier Canada. Frontier Canada was never built only to have White Water Canyon fill in the empty space in 1984.

History

Before Canada's Wonderland opened in 1981, during the construction phase of the park, developers had planned that a section called Frontier Canada would be built in the space of where the White Water Canyon and Splash Works sections sits today with the theme being about Canada's wilderness and space. Had Frontier Canada been built, this section of the park would have contained several attractions including a steam train and a mine ride with the Mighty Canadian Minebuster being the centre piece of the area. For an unknown reason, Frontier Canada was never built and in 1984 developers developed part of the empty land to what it is known as today, White Water Canyon.^[1]

Current attractions

	Ride	Year opened	Manufacturer	Description	Rating[2]
	Action Theatre	1994	Iwerks Entertainment	A 3D theater which houses the new Dinosaurs Alive! 3D movie which was introduced in 2012 (This movie uses a pay-per-use system).	4
	Launch Pad	2002	Rebound Inc.	An attraction where guests are hooked up to a series of cables and are given the opportunity to jump high distances in the air on a trampoline. This is a pay-per-use attraction.	4
	Timberwolf Falls	1989	O.D. Hopkins & Associates	A traditional Hopkins Shoot the Chute boat ride.	4
	White Water Canyon	1984	Intamin	An Intamin river rapids ride which takes riders around a course while going through rapids and a waterfall. This ride is one out of three water rides outside of Splash Works at Canada's Wonderland. During Halloween Haunt, all the water is drained and the layout of the ride is used a maze where guests walk the course of the ride.	4

Food

Chippery in 2007.

Unlike many of the other sections in Canada's Wonderland, there are only a few stores where food can be purchased.

References

1. "From Dream to Reality (A History of Canada's Wonderland)". CW Mania. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
2. Ratings assigned per Canada's Wonderland, where "1" is the least intense and "5" is the most. See their "Guest Assistance Guide" (PDF). Canada's Wonderland. for more specific details.

External links

• Park map, Canada's Wonderland

Coordinates: 43°50′29″N 79°32′47″W / 43.8415°N 79.5464°W