Valleyfair

Valleyfair is an amusement park located in Shakopee, Minnesota, USA.

History

Valleyfair was developed by a company formed by 12 businessmen. Fred Pierce Jnr, owner of the Excelsior Amusement Park until its closure in 1973, was the vice-president of this company. During the park's construction, the Carousel from Excelsior was rebuilt at Valleyfair, where it remains today. The park was designed to resemble a turn-of-the-century trolley park.^[1] Valleyfair opened to the public on May 25, 1976.^[2]

In September 1978, Valleyfair was sold to the owners of Cedar Point.^[3] The company subsequently re-branded as Cedar Fair in 1983, combining the names of their two parks.

On August 4, 2020, the park announced that it would not operate at all in 2020 due to challenges associated with the coronavirus pandemic.^[4]

Roller coasters

Present (8)

Name	Manufacturers	Type	Opened	Status
Corkscrew	Arrow Development	Sit-Down	May 23, 1980	Operating
Cosmic Coaster	Zamperla	Powered	May 14, 2011	Operating
Excalibur	Arrow Dynamics	Hybrid	May 6, 1989	Operating
High Roller	International Amusement Devices	Wooden	May 25, 1976	Operating
Mad Mouse	Arrow Dynamics	Wild Mouse	May 8, 1999	Operating
Renegade	Great Coasters International	Wooden	May 12, 2007	Operating
Steel Venom	Intamin	Launched Inverted Shuttle	May 17, 2003	Operating
Wild Thing	Morgan	Hyper	May 11, 1996	Operating

Past (2)

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Fate
Rails	Schwarzkopf	Sit-Down	1979	1998	Relocated to Jolly Roger Amusement Park
Mild Thing	Allan Herschell Company	Kiddie	1976	2010	Scrapped

Attractions

Operating

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened
Antique Autos	Gould Manufacturing	Track Ride	2014
Bumper Cars	Unknown	Dodgems	1976
Carousel	Philadelphia Toboggan Company	Carousel	1976
Charlie Brown's Wind-Up	Chance Rides	Waveswinger	1976
Delirious	Larson International	Super Loop	2018
Ferris Wheel	Chance Rides	Ferris Wheel	1976
Flying Ace Balloon Race	Zamperla	Balloon Race	1988
Flying Eagles	Larson International	Flying Scooters	2016
Kite Eating Tree	S&S Worldwide	Frog Hopper	2000
Linus Launcher	Zamperla	Kite Flyer	2011
Linus' Beetle Bugs	Modern Products	Roundabout	1976
Lucy's Tugboat	Zamperla	Rockin' Tug	2004
Monster	Eyerly Aircraft Company	Polyp	1977
North Star	Funtime	Star Flyer	2017
Northern Lights	Zamperla	Disk'O	2014
Peanuts 500	Zamperla	Junior Whip	2011
Peanuts Road Rally	Zamperla	Track Ride	2000
Power Tower	S&S Worldwide	Drop Tower	2000
RipCord	Sky Fun 1 Inc.	Skycoaster	1996
Sally's Swing Set	Zamperla	Happy Swing	2011
Scrambler	Eli Bridge Company	Scrambler	1976
Snoopy vs Red Baron	Chance Rides	Junior Jets	1988
Snoopy's Deep Sea Divers	Zamperla	Junior Flying Carpet	2011
Snoopy's Rocket Express	Zamperla	Monorail	2011
SuperCat	Barbieri	Superbob/Musik Express	1976
Thunder Canyon	Barr Engineering	River Rapids	1987
Tilter	Sellner Manufacturing	Tilt-A-Whirl	1976
Wave	Hopkins	Shoot The Chute	1992
Wheel of Fortune	Chance Rides	Trabant/Satellite	1976
Woodstock Whirlybirds	Zamperla	Junior Teacups	2011
Xtreme Swing	S&S Worldwide	Screamin' Swing	2006

Closed

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Fate
Antique Autos	Gould Manufacturing	Track Ride	1976	2012	Replaced by a new version
Bayern Kurve	Schwarzkopf	Bayern Kurve	1985	1997	Unknown
Bumper Boats	Unknown	Bumper Boats	1993	2009	Relocated to Michigan's Adventure
Chaos	Chance Rides	Chaos	1997	2011	Scrapped
Enterprise	HUSS	Enterprise	1979	2016	Scrapped
Flume	Barr Engineering	Log Flume	1979	2008	Scrapped
Go-Karts	R.E. Enterprises	Go-Karts	1991	2013	Scrapped
Looping Starship	Intamin	Ranger	1985	2019	Scrapped
Northern Lights	Chance Rides	Falling Star	1986	2005	Unknown
RipTide	HUSS	Top Spin	2005	2017	Scrapped
SkyScraper	Gravity Works	Booster	2005	2007	Relocated to Cedar Point

Water slides

Valleyfair also includes its adjacent water park Soak City, which is included with the price of admission to the park. The area originally opened in 1983 as Liquid Lightning. The park was renamed as the Whitewater Country Waterpark in 1992, and eventually under its current name in 2008.