Funtown Splashtown USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Funtown Splashtown USA (commonly referred to as just "Funtown") is a small amusement park located in Saco, Maine, in the United States.

1 History
2 Featured Attractions
- 2.1 Also in the Funtown section:
- 2.2 Also in the Splashtown section:
3 External links

[edit] History

In 1959, Ken and Violet Cormier opened "Marvel Drive In", a drive-in restaurant. Ken’s brother-in-law, Andre Dellaire opened a mini-golf course that previous year next to Marvel Drive-In. In 1963, Andre opened a go-kart track behind his mini golf course, and in 1964 Ken added batting cages and an archery range in 1967 behind Marvel Drive In. Over the course of the next few years, Cormier and Dellaire added several kiddie and carnival-style rides including SkySlides and Swinging Gyms. A gift shop was also opened.

In 1967, Cormier and Dellaire formed a partnership and Funtown U.S.A. was born. Over the next few years, Funtown added a Zipper, outdoor bumper cars, and a Bayern Kurve named “Luv Machine”.

In 1996, Cormier bought out the remaining Dellaire interest at the park and renamed it to Funtown Splashtown U.S.A. with the addition of the waterpark.

[edit] Featured Attractions

A car from the park's Galaxi Roller Coaster returning from the unload platform to be reloaded

The park features Maine's only wooden roller coaster, Excalibur, as well as New England's longest and tallest log flume, Thunder Falls. It also has a 220 foot tall Drop Tower called Dragon's Descent. One of the park's most popular rides is the Astrosphere, which is an indoor Scrambler which features a state-of-the-art laser and light show while playing ELO's Fire on High.

The Splashtown segment features Pirate's Paradise, a large interactive playground which pumps hundreds of gallons of water onto its guests every few minutes. For the 2007 season, an expansion was built that doubled the size of the waterpark and added two new thrill slides, Tornado and Mammoth.