Sundown Adventureland is a children's theme park in Rampton, Nottinghamshire, UK. It originally opened as a farmyard in 1968 and is owned by the Rhodes family.[1] As of 2020, it has over 30 rides and attractions.[2]
Park guide
The park has several themed areas, including fantasy, Wild West, pirate and fairytale themes.
The park has a number of rides aimed at young children, as well as walkthrough attractions, most of which being interactive through pressing buttons that have visual and audio consequences. In addition, there are also has some themed outdoor play areas.
It has three main dining locations: Honey's Pumpkin Patch Café, Crash Landings and Rodeo Corral. The latter two both contain themed soft play areas.
Attraction
Date opened/Closed
Description
Giddy Piggies
A small children's round ride.
Jolly Pirate Boat Ride
1992
A themed boat ride. Previously named the Boozy Barrel Boat Ride.
An animated children's show formerly in Shotgun City made by Golding Leisure featuring western animals singing country songs, no footage or photos of this show in its prime have been discovered yet. Show was replaced in 2009 by Buck & Duke with the animatronics now on display in the ice cream parlor and the fiddle playing coyote in the haunted house but relocated in 2019 to storage.
Angry Birds Activity Park
2012
A themed play area.
Fort Apache
A themed play area.
Crash Landings
A themed indoor play area.
Rodeo Corral
A themed indoor play area.
History
Sundown Adventureland first opened in 1968 and was run in the Rhodes' back garden.[3] In its first year open, it was visited by over 2000 people.[3] Animals that could be seen during early operation included pheasants, ducks, bush babies, flying and red squirrels, budgerigars, canaries, a monkey, fox and a donkey. It was originally known as Sundown Pets Corner.[3]
Awards
In 2020 Sundown Adventureland was voted the fourth-best theme park in the UK and the 16th best in Europe, according to TripAdvisor
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