More rides and features followed, nearly one per year - Panic Plunge in 2006, Scarywood in 2009, SpinCycle in 2013 - bringing the total number of rides to around 70.
With these numbers, we are expecting a very strong tourism summer.”Īs attendance has increased, so have attractions: a log flume within two years of startup, followed by roller coasters - Thunder Canyon, Timber Terror and then Tremors - and Boulder Beach Water Park in 2003.
“Our Early Bird sale, which ended on May 4, was up 127 percent over last year and only 26.75 percent of those sales were from our ‘local’ market (Spokane and North Idaho). “So far, we are projected to have another record-breaking year,” says director of marketing Jordan Carter.
SILVERWOOD LOG FLUME RIDE DETAILS MOVIE
When Silverwood opened on June 20, 1988, the park featured a few rides - the carnival type, but also Norton’s vintage railroad - a movie theater, and the quaint Victorian-style “main street” of shops which served as a backdrop for the rides.Īn estimated 120,000 people visited Silverwood that first year, a number that continues to rise. He added a 1915 train engine, forming the foundation of Silverwood Theme Park and the rest, as they say, is history. Although the north-south freeway had been in existence since 1926, towns like Athol - a former mill town - barely registered on visitors’ radars.Īnd then Gary Norton had an idea: turn the sleepy airport into a tourist attraction starring his Ford Tri-motor and other planes. Population numbered around 20,000, climbing as people discovered the region’s lakes and lands, much of which lay undeveloped up Highway 95. Back then, downtown Coeur d’Alene was a busy but modest retail hub, and featured a newly minted Coeur d’Alene Resort. Lot has changed in the 30 years since Silverwood opened.
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