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My older kids, who are fearless, LOVED it.
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Guests, riding on 2- or 4-person floats, descend quickly through a system of tubes before being shot out into a truly enormous funnel, where they rocket up one side and then the other (screaming the whole time), before floating out the bottom of the funnel through another tube and out into the final pool. It has lots of tube rides - an easy one for wimpy people like me (it took a lot of courage for me to try it the first time!) and several that are more challenging, including the incredible Tornado ride which must be seen to be believed. What a fantastic amusement park! Splashtown, an excellent water park, makes up one side of the park. The highlight of our weekend was spending all day Saturday at Funtown Splashtown USA, which is located right on Route 1 in Saco, just a few miles from Old Orchard Beach and about 30 minutes north of Portsmouth NH (about 1.5 hours from Lowell - not a bad drive at all!). We continued on up to Ogunquit where we waded in the surf despite the gray skies and cool weather, and then up to Wells to enjoy the best seafood chowder ever at The Maine Diner (and yet more fried haddock for the kids - double score!). It was really a stop for me, to check out all the kitchen gadgets and sauces, but the kids ended up fascinated by the beautiful store and are now devoted fans of the jelly sample table. We kept the food theme going by stopped at the Stonewall Kitchen company store in York. Major triumph with my 6-year-old, who is super-picky. We took a chance and ordered fried haddock to share, hoping the kids would like this new form of fish sticks and - score! - they all devoured it. What a great store if you enjoy outdoor sports, with three floors of gear for camping, fishing, hiking, hunting, canoeing, and more! There was so much to look at that we could have stayed all day, but we tore ourselves away to eat a hearty lunch at The Weathervane. Although we've been shopping in Kittery several times, this was the first time we stopped at the Kittery Trading Post. On Friday, we meandered up the coast on Route 1 from Kittery to South Portland, with several stops along the way. We’ve been in Maine on day trips and for short vacations before the kids were born but this was the first time the kids visited southern Maine, and they loved it! It’s only 90 minutes away, and there are so many unique and interesting things to see and do.
Funtown log flume ride cracker#
Note how all of the above rides with the exception of Coal Cracker were all second flume rides for flourishing 1970s theme parks, which were overwhelmed with the popularity of their log flume and required additional capacity (the SFGAm/PGA rides opened with the park though).Our family of five took a long weekend break to Maine at the end of June to celebrate the end of school and my daughter’s 9th birthday. Other hydro flumes included Yankee Clipper's ex-twin at PGA (removed after the 1998 season for Stealth), and PKI's model (removed after the 2000 season to make way for Tomb Raider the Ride). The only remaining hydro flumes left are Splashdown (Poland Springs Plunge) at SFGAd, Yankee Clipper (Ice Mountain Splash) at SFGAm, Jet Stream (Ice Mountain Splash) at SFMM, and Coal Cracker at HP (only one run the way it was intended from day one). They were more expensive than log flumes and designed with capacity in mind (all had turntable stations, longer boats that could seat 5-6, and a double spillway drop.Īs of last season, only Hershey and CP ran their hydroflumes in high capacity mode (in other words, using both spillways). Poland Springs Plunge at Great Adventure is also a Hydro-flumeĪrrow only built a limited number of Hydro Flumes (incidently, all in the U.S.).