Bigfoot Rapids, the white-water raft ride at Knott’s Berry Farm, will undergo a name change and overhaul that will include new wildlife and human animatronics and interactive water effects.

Sasquatch has left the park. Knott’s water raft ride, Bigfoot Rapids, closed at the end of September and is undergoing a major renovation. It is scheduled to reopen as Calico River Rapids in summer.

The new Calico River Rapids adds about 20 animatronic figures to the 1987 BigFoot Rapids water ride at the Buena Park theme park. Skip to content.

River rapids rides have been a staple of amusement parks since Intamin Amusement Rides pioneered the genre in 1979. Since then, Intamin and other ride makers have built more than 175 such rides ...

This guy customized six rafts so he could stack them on top of each other. He then created oar extensions and went to river rapids without falling off his creation. Watch it from another angle here.

Some of the passengers on the Roaring Rapids ride decided to jump into the water to swim to safety. (TikTok/@jebbrownsack) Each raft on the ride can hold up to a dozen people, according to Six ...