Santa's Village (Illinois)

Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park

East Dundee, Illinois, USA

Status

Operating

Opened

May 30, 1959

Owner

A Zoo To You (2011–present)

Operating season

May – December

Website

https://santasvillagedundee.com/

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Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park (formerly known as Santa's Village AZoosment Park) is a theme park in East Dundee, Illinois, USA. It was originally built by Glenn Holland, who also built two other Santa's Village locations, in California; one located in San Bernardino County and the other in Santa Cruz County. The Illinois park, the third to be built, was intended to be the flagship of a chain of Santa's Villages across the country. However, parks planned for Richmond, Virginia and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, were never built, and the park in East Dundee became the last of its kind.

The park operated as Santa's Village from 1959 to 2005, when it closed due to financial problems. After extensive rehabilitation, it reopened in 2011 under new ownership. Renamed Santa's Village AZoosment Park because of the shared focus on both rides and animals, the AZoosment Park has nearly twenty rides and attractions, and hundreds of exotic and farm animals in an interactive environment. For a short time in 1972, the park was named Worlds of Fun. Because of confusion with other parks with similar names, the name was changed again to Three Worlds of Santa's Village.

Roller coasters

Present

Class	Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Roller	Farmers Fling	SBF Visa Group	Kiddie Spinning	May 26, 2023	Operating
Roller	Super Cyclone	Interpark	Sit-Down	May 13, 2017	Operating
Roller	Wacky Worm	Fajume	Kiddie	May 9, 2015	Operating

Past

Class	Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Fate
Roller	Candy Cane Coaster	Unknown	Family	1964	1966	Loaned from Jack Kendrick Rides.
Powered	Dracor	Zamperla	Family	1986	1994	Unknown
Roller	Dragon Coaster	Wisdom Rides	Family	2011	October 30, 2016	Relocated to Joyland Amusement Park
Powered	Dragon Coaster	Zamperla	Kiddie	1995	2005	Relocated to Vertical Endeavors
Roller	Galaxi	SDC	Sit-Down	1987	1996	Unknown
Roller	Snowball Express	Allan Herschell Company	Kiddie	Unknown	1985	Relocated to Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
Roller	Swiss Toboggan	Chance Rides	Sit-down	1971	Unknown	Unknown
Roller	Typhoon	Top Fun	Sit-Down	July 27, 1998	2005	Sold to Ray Cammack Shows
Roller	WildCat	Pinfari	Sit-down	June 28, 2014	2015	Sold to someone in Texas

Attractions

Operating

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened
Balloon Race	Zamperla	Balloon Race	1992
Blizzard	SBF Visa Group	Frisbee	2021
Country Carousel	Unknown	Carousel	2025 or earlier
Kringle's Convoy	Unknown	Track Ride	2025 or earlier
Lil' Monster Rally	Template:Unkonwn	Roundabout	2025
Mega Velocity	Eli Bridge Company	Scrambler	2016
Midge-O-Racers	Eyerly Aircraft Company	Roundabout	2024 or earlier
North Pole Expedition	Majestic Manufacturing	Track Ride	2024
Pirate's Revenge	SBF Visa Group	Pirate Ship	2023
Reindeer Rocker	Unknown	Miami	2025
Roto-Whip	Unknown	Unknown	2024 or earlier
Route 66 Cruisers	Arrow Development	Track Ride	1962
Snowball Ride	Arrow Development	Tea Cups	1962
Snowman Spin Out	Unknown	Dodgem	2025 or earlier
Space Invasion	Hampton Rides	Roundabout	2013
Tilt-A-Whirl	Sellner Manufacturing	Tilt-A-Whirl	2011
Tri-Nado	HUSS	Troika	2015

Closed

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Fate
Xtreme Elevation	Larson International A.R.M.	Drop Tower	2015	2022	Relocated to Big Rivers Waterpark & Adventures
Sea Dragon	Chance Rides	Pirate Ship	2011	2022	Relocated to Niagara Amusement Park and Splash World
Jolly Trolley	Majestic Rides	Dark Ride	2021	2022	Sold
Wipeout	Chance Rides	Trabant/Satellite	1992	2005	Scrapped
Yo-Yo	Chance Rides	Waveswinger	1990	2005	Scrapped

External links

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  Santa's Village on the Roller Coaster DataBase.