page_title: Calico River Rapids
section_title: Main ride
hierarchical_section_title: Calico River Rapids / Ride experience / Main ride
caption_attribution_description: English: The ride features a aesthetically pleasing night light package
context_page_description: Calico River Rapids is a themed river rapids ride located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California which opened on May 17, 2019.
context_section_description: In comparison to the former Bigfoot Rapids attraction, Calico River Rapids provides plenty animatronic animals, characters and water effects throughout the four minute ride. The ride also features a  night light package which provides a different viewing experience when its night. The raft trip around the unexplored Calico River Territory begins with the raft traveling through the outside of the Potts and Colter's cabin where an animatronic woodpecker pecks into a sluice causing water to leak onto the river and get the guests a little bit wet. As the raft encounters more rapids along the way, the first themed scene of the ride is displayed on the right side of the river. Roughly 5 animatronic rattlesnakes make a rattling sound to the riders. Along the way towards the wooden bridge in which the riders passed over earlier, a medium-sized wolf howls from the edge of the river banks. Moreover, after passing through a splashy rapid, a hunter spots a raft from his wooden house with a fake firearm and creates a water effect from the river causing a stream of water to rise from the river. The ride also features a whimsical racoon curious about a set of TNT. The second turn of the ride features another much improved wooden hunter's house with a couple of s animatronic chickens and baby foxes near the edge of the river. As the rider's continue the journey down the Calico River territory, riders would spot a large animatronic california grizzly bear catching a tuna from the river. An animatronic mountain lion located above a set of rocks also growls at the guests. At the third turn of the river, park visitors get a great view of the Calico River Rapids with a unique opportunity to blast the riders with TNT plungers. Riders may get wet as the TNT boxes are filled with gestures and shoot streams of water. The highlight of the ride comes in the last turn where the rafts enter a cave. The cave features a large bigfoot animatronic located on the side of the cave and growls as each raft passes by. The ride ends with the rafts entering a lift conveyor belt and returning to the loading station to dock.
caption: The ride features a night light package. One of the hunter's cabin filled with animatronics.
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