Thunder Run's exit ramp is no more. It has been replaced with an elevator and exit staircase. This may have been done to make room for The Conjuring premium upcharge Haunt underneath.
News Canada's Wonderland General Updates
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Parking is no longer included at Canada's Wonderland unless you buy a prestige pass from Canada's Wonderland. No other parks prestige passes count. They do sell an gold pass parking add on for $87 Canadian plus fee, but they will only let you buy it if you have a pass bought from Canada's Wonderland. (Day parking is $44 Canadian at the lot.)
I remember last fall when buying the pass La Ronde and Knotts Berry Farm parking being excluded, but I don't remember CW being excluding. (KBF parking is included with a prestige pass, no mater the park the pass was purchased at.)
Fortunately bus fare to the park from the hotel is only $4.75 per direction. I would have gotten a closer hotel though if I knew about this in advance.
I remember last fall when buying the pass La Ronde and Knotts Berry Farm parking being excluded, but I don't remember CW being excluding. (KBF parking is included with a prestige pass, no mater the park the pass was purchased at.)
Fortunately bus fare to the park from the hotel is only $4.75 per direction. I would have gotten a closer hotel though if I knew about this in advance.
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Kings Dominion home park (not prestige) here but when entering parking at Knotts in summer 2024 and winter 2025, I was surprised to find that it let me right on through without paying, despite the advertisements that I'd have to pay extra. I don't know if I was just lucky or got a clueless parking attendant, but it worked just fine for me.
I didn’t pay for parking at Knott’s or Canadas Wonderland last year with my KD based prestige pass.
For knotts last couple years, if you had all parks passport you got parking included regardless of home park or if your pass was a prestige or gold pass. If you had a regular gold pass from knotts, you have to either pay daily or get the season long parking add on.
I've been buying a CW Gold Pass for years without the parking add-on.
Also unrelated big news today, manager Heather Hill has retired after sticking with the park since it opened in 1981. I've run into her a few times over the years (more recently keeping an eye on AlpenFury) and even in Orlando last fall, her departure really is the end of an era for us. She's one of two opening year CW OG's I know of in the industry, the other left early on for a more illustrious career at the CN Tower, with Merlin to oversee development of Legoland Cali/Germany, an exec position at Herschend and Darien Lake, and then wound up back in Canada to manage Santa's Village as a semi-retirement job.
Also unrelated big news today, manager Heather Hill has retired after sticking with the park since it opened in 1981. I've run into her a few times over the years (more recently keeping an eye on AlpenFury) and even in Orlando last fall, her departure really is the end of an era for us. She's one of two opening year CW OG's I know of in the industry, the other left early on for a more illustrious career at the CN Tower, with Merlin to oversee development of Legoland Cali/Germany, an exec position at Herschend and Darien Lake, and then wound up back in Canada to manage Santa's Village as a semi-retirement job.