Carwardine Corners

Carwardine Corners is an amusement park that is located in. It is owned by Carwardine Parks.

History
In 1983, the park was officially opened to the public, with Christopher R. Carwardine cutting the ribbon to open the park.

In 1984, Awesome Alex's Splendid Splash opened to the public.

In 1988, Carwardine River Rapids and Red Baron were added.

In 1991, Bart's Cowabunga Skaters opened.

In 1993, Manhattan Mayhem opened.

In 1994. Sidewinder opened as the world's first dueling hyper coasters.

In 1995, Splashtown has opened, marking the largest expansion in the park's history, going to the park is included with admission, although you must take a tram from the tram station from an area towards the east of the park to the waterpark. Splashtown would be built by several local companies, Aqua Layout (which was purchased by ADG in 2019) and ProSlide Technology.

In 1996, Floodgate Falls was added.

In 1997, two new rides - the Kids Kountry Karousel and The Mario Kart Experience were added.

In 1999, King Cobra was added.

In 2000, Afterburner was added.

In 2001, Skyways was added.

In 2002, Backfire was added.

In 2003, PBS Kids Neighborhood was added.

In 2005, Mastodon Mountain was added.

In 2016, a Jollibee location opened at the park.

In 2019, five new rides opened at the park.

In 2023, several new kiddie rides opened.

Areas

 * Port of Entry
 * Carwardine Street
 * Kids Kountry (formerly known as "PBS Kids Neighborhood" [2003-2007] and "77 Kids Kountry" [2009-2011])
 * Splashtown (inclusive water park)
 * Temple Valley

Roller coasters

 * Backfire (2002; A Vekoma Inverted Boomerang "Invertigo" roller coaster, originally planned to be a Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang, before post-9/11 concerns made them stick to a normal Boomerang, built on the land where City Jet was planned to be relocated to make way for the ill-fated Busytown dark ride project at Carwardine Colony) [Carwardine Street]
 * Big Apple Beast (1983; a PTC wooden roller coaster, one of the three opening day coasters) [Temple Valley]
 * Crazy Chris' Wild Ride (1983; an Arrow Dynamics mine train roller coaster/dark ride hybrid, one of the three opening day coasters, retracked by DH Morgan in 2000) [Carwardine Street]
 * Digit's Digital Roundabout (1983; a Chance Toboggan relocated from a state fair, formerly known as "Toboggan" [1983-2003]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Dongwa's Crazy Coaster (1999; a PAX Cobra-1, formerly known as "King Cobra" [1999-2003]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Manhattan Mayhem (1993; a TOGO Ultra Twister with Dive Loop, only one with a dive loop in the US) [Carwardine Street]
 * Pigeon Race (2001; a Caripro Gyroflyer, formerly known as "Skyways" [2001-2002] and "Bert's Pigeon Race" [2003-2007]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Redwall: Fight for Victory (2003; a GCI wooden roller coaster) [Kids Kountry]
 * Sagwa's Rickshaw Run (2003; a Schwarzkopf Double Looping Coaster, formerly operated at Funtime Mountain in from 1983-1988 as "Looping" and La Cité Incroyable from 1989-2000 as "Le GoKart") [Kids Kountry]
 * Sheegwa's Butterfly Chase (2003; a Vekoma Junior Coaster 207m) [Kids Kountry]
 * Sidewinder (1994; a pair of dueling Hopkins Rides hyper coasters, re-tracked by Huss-TechEruo in 2001) [Temple Valley]
 * Simpsons' Road Trip Coaster (1983; A Zierer Large Tivoli kiddie coaster, one of the three opening day coasters, not renamed for PBS Kids Neighborhood, formerly known as "Tivoli Rainbow" [1983-2021]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Space Rockets (2003; a Vekoma SFC, formerly known as "Super Grover's Vapor Trail" [2003-2007]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Wild Mouse (2000; A Maurer Wild Mouse "Right" Model, replaced the old "Wild Mouse" which was a Monster Mouse by Allan Herschell, formerly "The All-New Wild Mouse" [2000-2001] and "Arthur's Cool Coaster" [2003-2007]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Wild Wheels (2003; a Vekoma Junior Coaster 335m, formerly known as "Barney's Super-Dee-Duper Coaster" [2003-2007]) [Kids Kountry]

Flat rides

 * Afterburner (2000; a KMG Afterburner and the prototype for the model) [Carwardine Street]
 * Awesome Alex's Splended Splash (1984; An Arrow Dynamics Log Flume, was the longest log flume clocking in at 15 minutes, even beating out Splash Mountain, until another log flume in Japan beat it out at 20 minutes long) [Carwardine Street]
 * Blazer (1983; A Schwarzkopf Enterprise ride, refurbished by HUSS-TechEruo in 2003, known as "BJ's Blazer" [2003-2007]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Carwardine River Rapids (1988; Intamin River Rapids, one of the first three of its kind at a Carwardine park) [Carwardine Street]
 * Carwardine Sky Wheel (1983; An Anton Schwarzkopf Ferris wheel) [Carwardine Street]
 * Fire Twirler (2001; A Moser Rides Top Star ride) [Carwardine Street]
 * Flying Scooters (1991; A Bisch-Rocco Flying Scooters, formerly known as "Bart's Cowabunga Skaters" [1991-2007], relocated from Rose Park) [Carwardine Street]
 * Kids Kountry Karousel (1997; A 38.5-Foot D.H. Morgan MFG carousel, formerly known as "PBS Kids Neighborhood Carousel" [2003-2007] and "77 Kids Kountry Karousel" [2009-2011]) [Kids Kountry]
 * Luigi's Polterdrop (2019; An S&S Triple Tower) [Carwardine Street]
 * Red Baron (1988; A Zamperla Telecombat ride) [Carwardine Street]
 * ROBLOX: The Ride (2019; A Sally Corporation Dark ride) [Temple Valley]
 * Sailor Moon: Queen Beryl's Revenge (2019; A Funtime StarFlyer) [Temple Valley]
 * Sea Storm (1983; A Mack Sea Storm ride) [Temple Valley]
 * Space Capsule (1983; An Eyerly Roll-O-Plane ride) [Carwardine Street]
 * Starship (1986; An Intamin Pirate Ship ride themed to a spacecraft) [Temple Valley]
 * Steeplechase (1983; A PTC carousel ride, the first one of the two carousels here; PTC’s first four-row carousel; formerly located at Fort George Amusement Park in Fort George, New York; Summit Beach Amusement Park in Akron, Ohio; and Muskego Beach Amusement Park/DandeLion Park in Muskego, Wisconsin) [Carwardine Street]
 * Wario's Gold Coin Rider (2019; A Zamperla Disk'O) [Carwardine Street]
 * Wave Link (1995; A tram ride that takes guests to and from the Splashtown and the main park) [Temple Valley/Splashtown]
 * Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy (2019; A Sellner Tilt-A-Whirl) [Carwardine Street]

Kiddie rides
All kiddie rides are located in Kids Kountry.
 * Balloons Galore! (2003; a Zamperla Balloon Race, formerly known as "Baby Bop's Balloon Bop" [2003-2007])
 * Baron von Junior (2003; A Zamperla Mini Jet ride, formerly known as "Zak & Wheezie's Dragon Flyers" [2003-2007])
 * Bingo’s Bumpers (2023; A Zamperla Mini Bumper Car ride)
 * Bluey’s Tree Swing (2023; A Zamperla Super Happy Swing ride)
 * Camp Bus (2003; A Zamperla Crazy Bus ride, formerly known as "D.W's Crazy Bus" [2003-2007] and "Camp 77 Bus" [2009-2011])
 * Disco Spinner (2003; A Zamperla Disk'O Coaster, formerly known as "DragonflyTV Halfpipe Simulator" [2003-2007])
 * Road Rally (2003; A Zamperla Convoy ride, formerly known as "Oscar's Sloppy Jalopies" [2003-2007])
 * Rockin' Tug (2003; A Zamperla Rockin' Tug ride, formerly known as "SS A. Eagle" [2009-2011] and "Theodore Tugboat" [2003-2007])
 * Tumble Buggies (1983; A Traver Kiddie Tumble Bug ride, formerly known as "Twiddlebuggies" [2003-2007])

Splashtown

 * Big Kahuna Wave (1995; wave pool)
 * Daredevil's Peak (1995; ProSlide trio of freefall slides; in 2015, one of the slides was converted into a trapdoor slide)
 * Floodgate Falls (1996; A ProSlide TurboMammoth)
 * Garfield's Island (1999; A kids water playground with slides built by ProSlide)
 * Hudson River Run (1995; lazy river)
 * Lady Liberty (2009: a ProSlide Tornado themed to the Statue of Liberty with a 10ft scale version of the statue on top of the funnel)
 * Mastodon Mountain (2005; ProSlide Mammoth slide)
 * Mini Mountain (1995; 3 kiddie mat slides)
 * Slide Mountain (1995; 4 ProSlide PipeLine slides)
 * Super Mario Splash (2015; Mario warp pipe themed enclosed body slides, made by ProSlide, first ProSlide slides to have AquaLucent light effects)

The Mario Kart Experience at Carwardine Corners
Located at the westmost corner of the park. An extra-charge go-kart area.
 * Bowser Circuit (1997; Unique design combining SNES Bowser Castle 2 and SNES Bowser Castle 3)
 * Luigi Circuit (1997; Based on N64 Luigi Raceway)
 * Mario Circuit (1997; Based on SNES Mario Circuit 1)
 * Rainbow Road (1997; Based on SNES Rainbow Road)

Former Coasters

 * Wild Mouse (1983-1999; a relocated Allan Herschell "Monster Mouse" from Funtown in Chicago, relocated to a park in Mexico) [Kids Kountry]

Former Flat rides

 * Bulgy the Whale (1983-2022; an Eyerly Bulgy the Whale ride, formerly known as "Sagwa's Butterfly Chase" [2003-2007])
 * Disco Record (1987-2010; a Chance Rides Trabant)
 * Enterprise (1983-1999; a HUSS Enterprise ride relocated from the German fair circuit, damaged by fire in 1999, scrapped for spare parts for Blazer, the other Enterprise ride in the park, replaced with Afterburner) [Carwardine Street]
 * Kirby's Daring Dash (1995-1999; An Intamin Flight Trainer, demolished and replaced with Fire Twirler) [Carwardine Street]
 * Orbiter (1983-2022; An Allan Herschell Astronaut ride, formerly known as "Zoomstronauts!" [2003-2007]] and "Space Age" [1983-2002])
 * Riptide Rapids (1990-1994; A New Wave Rides Waterslide complex designed to be used with street clothes, relocated to Goodtimes Amusement Park to make way for Splashtown)
 * Space Shuttle (1985-2006; An Intamin Looping Starship themed to a space shuttle, ripped for it's parts for other Carwardine Parks Intamin Looping Starships)

Restaurants and food stands

 * Auntie Anne's/Cinnabon [Carwardine Street]
 * Beachcombers [Splashtown]
 * Carwardine Cafe [Port of Entry]
 * Dairy Queen Grill & Chill/Orange Julius [Port of Entry]
 * Dippin’ Dots [multiple stands throughout park]
 * Dippin’ Dots/Doc Popcorn [Carwardine Street]
 * ICEE Mix It Up [multiple stations throughout park]
 * Jollibee [Carwardine Street]
 * Kids Kountry Snack Shack [Kids Kountry]
 * Slush Puppie [multiple stations throughout park]
 * Subway [Port of Entry]
 * Taco Bell/Pizza Hut Express [Port of Entry]

Incidents

 * On August 1, 1999, shortly before 7:50 PM, Enterprise caught fire. It was in motion, with riders aboard, when the fire suddenly ignited midway through the cycle. The operator stopped the ride and Carnies evacuated the riders, but not before injuries were sustained by the riders. 31 riders were hospitalized with first-, second- and third-degree burns, with an additional 10 admitted and checked for possible smoke inhalation. Six children who were among the burn victims were transported to the Shriners burn hospital in . The fire damaged the ride's electrical systems and five of the 20 gondolas. The and  investigated the incident and declared arson as the cause of the fire. Two teens from, Marvin Osborne (17) and Kenneth Peterson (16) were charged as adults with arson and attempted manslaughter and were sentenced to 12 years in prison. Another teen involved in the crime, Mykola "Mickey" Kolisnychenko (17), also from Hauppauge, was initially threatened with deportation to his native , but he was allowed to remain in the US after an appeal to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, being sentenced to 2 years in juvenile detention in exchange for going informant against Osborne and Peterson. The nearby Kirby's Daring Dash was affected, but no one was injured due to the ride having closed the previous week.
 * In 2001, an 8-year old girl from died after being thrown from her seat on Afterburner. Carwardine Parks were found to be not at fault as the girl failed to properly secure her lapbar.
 * On June 5, 2004, a family from were critically injured when a train of Sagwa's Rickshaw Run collided with another train waiting to dispatch. The boy, 10-year-old Sam Rowland, dislocated his elbow while the mother, 42-year-old Karan Baker-Rowland, fractured her knee. Both were briefly hospitalized for their injuries.
 * On July 26, 2004, 12-year old Charity Lesley from, was found unconscious after riding Redwall: Fight for Victory once its train returned to the loading station. She was airlifted to  in  where she was eventually resuscitated. She was suffering from a heart condition according to authorities.
 * In 2005, 57-year-old Baxter Elliott, a former debt collector from, started working at the park during the summer as a seasonal employee. While working at the park on his second month on the job, he slipped and fell from Slide Mountain in Splashtown. He was airlifted to in  where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Map
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Trivia

 * Crazy Chris' Wild Ride was originally going to be a log flume.
 * The park is one of the most profitable due to being near NYC.
 * A tram must be used to go across the theme park to the water park.
 * The waterpark was originally going to be far closer to the theme park and not require a tram, however, they thought it would intrude on expansion.
 * Since Jollibee opened at the park in 2016, costume characters of the restaurant’s various mascots (most notably the titular Jollibee) have been seen at the park.