Added: 02/25/2006 |
Camp Snoopy in Minnesota - an indoor family park with a differenceThe Mall of America is the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States, where you can see visitors from all other states and from almost every corner of the world. In fact, the Mall of America could easily house seven Yankees stadiums and it is no surprise that the largest indoor amusement park, the Camp Snoopy in Minnesota, became the centerpiece of the Mall of America.
Both the park and the Mall of America opened on August 11, 1992. The Camp Snoopy was created on seven acres of land and beneath one point two miles of skylights, providing seventy percent of natural sunlight to the park. The only heaters near the skylights were designed in the Camp Snoopy in Minnesota to help melt snow and ice. It was planned that other ways of heating would be created from electric lights, a body heat and sunlight.
From the very opening the Camp Snoopy in Minnesota was not only a place of fascinating rides and adventures, but also a masterpiece of architectural and landscape design. The Paul Bunyan's Log Chute is home to thirteen animated characters, including Paul Bunyan that is standing 19 feet tall and Babe the Blue Ox that is thirteen feet in height and twenty two feet long. A garden wall in the form of a giant rattlesnake stretches from the entrance of the Pepsi Ripsaw Roller Coaster to its exit. A river was created to run through the park. It begins at the Paul Bunyan's Log Chute, leisurely runs along the side Timberland Twister, accumulates at the Center Fountain, flows under a bridge past the Red Baron and Truckin' and ends up at the pond in front of the Great Lakes Ballroom. The rides and attractions at the Camp Snoopy in Minnesota were hand-painted with woods, owls, deer, squirrels and other animals.
The Camp Snoopy in Bloomington, Minnesota has always been a crowd of cheerful youths and smaller kids, who squeeze and laugh, experiencing exciting adventure rides of the amusement park. The change of the park's name has influenced in no way on its wonderful atmosphere, natural appeal and distinguished character. Unlike numerous indoor amusement parks, the Camp Snoopy in Minnesota has always been a flourishing of natural foliage in and about the park. The park's floor has a wide gradation in height; the highest ground level in the park is fifteen feet above the lowest. It has given a possibility for a far more naturalistic experience and atmosphere than would normally be possible in an indoor amusement park. There are thirty thousand live plants and four hundred live trees, planted in the park.
The most renowned attractions, opened before the year of 2000, include the Xcel Energy Log Chute, a complete water adventure ride in a hollowed-out log, ending in a forty-foot plunge over a waterfall; the Pepsi Ripsaw Roller Coaster, an amazing ride above treetops and around the park; the Skyscraper Ferris Wheel of seventy four-foot high; The Mighty Axe, an upside-down thrill ride, and the Mystery Mine Ride, a simulated real-life movie adventure. The Pepsi Ripsaw Roller Coaster is three and a half minute ride, designed by Zierer. It is a milder family-type ride, electrically driven through two thousand and five hundred feet of track with a maximum height of sixty feet and a top speed of thirty miles per hour.
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