Silverwood

On Friday, we packed up the RV and headed north towards Silverwood, a theme park in northern Idaho. We stopped for the night about halfway there, and arrived at Silverwood on Saturday afternoon. We stayed at the Silverwood RV park. Our site was great, right next to the entrance to the park. It only had a few drawbacks – a couple of trees between our site and the other sites and the walkways would have been nice, there was only 30 amp power, and there was no wi-fi. Luckily cell phone reception was good. We parked the rig and headed into the park. 

Silverwood has an odd layout, partially because it is multiple parks in one, and partially because of how it has evolved over time. It started life as an airfield and air museum, then added a train around the perimeter, then an amusement park, then a water park. They call it a theme park, but the western theming is pretty thin, and offstage areas are often visible, especially from the amusement park area. The layout is kind of a flat figure 8, with the southern loop being the amusement park and northern loop being the water park. Where the loops meet is an entrance area which contains new Victorian buildings. To the west of the entrance area is the old air strip – the air museum is no longer part of the experience.

The amusement park area has four roller coasters – two woodies, a corkscrew they bought from Knott’s Berry Farm, and the old Deja-Vu boomerang they bought from Six Flags Chicago, now called Aftershock. Each is fairly low capacity - only running one train at a time, so I imagine lines can get long in the summer. Aftershock was down, so I never got to ride that. There is also a raft ride and a log ride, and a bunch of flat rides. There are no dark rides or relaxing boat rides, so the only family rides (ones that don’t throw or spin you around) are the antique cars and the train. The food prices looked to be pretty reasonable, but we mostly ate in our RV, so I can’t attest to quality.