This Day, That Year – August 3

This day in history we feature the Santa Claus Land. World’s first themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States on this day in 1946.

Trivia – Santa Claus Land

Santa Claus Land now well known as Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari is a combination theme park and water park. The theme park is divided into four sections that celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July with rides, live entertainment, games, and attractions. Holiday World contains three wooden roller coasters: The Raven, The Legend, and The Voyage, as well as Thunderbird (a Bolliger & Mabillard launched Wing Coaster) and The Howler.

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The safari-themed water park includes the world’s two longest water coasters, Wildebeest and Guinness World Record Holder Mammoth; additionally, it contains a launched dueling water coaster named Cheetah Chase, numerous family raft rides and water slides, two wave pools, a junior-sized wave pool, two children’s-sized water slide areas, a lazy river, and one family “tipping bucket”. In keeping with its family friendly atmosphere, the park’s Halloween celebration is tamer than at most amusement parks.

Source – Wikipedia

This day in history – Santa Claus Land