What did the log ride originate from?

Question

From where did all the log rides come from? Almost every theme park has one, but why?

Answer 1

don't know where the idea came from but I was told that knotts berry farm was the first log flume in the world...but then the previous poster mentioned Texas which was 6 yrs earlier...hmmm, so which is right?? makes me wonder too...

I would figure that a bunch of lumber jacks were cutting down timber one day and tossed it in the river to transport and one of them prolly thought it looked fun and hopped aboard..  :)

my husband used to work in managment at all the local parks here and he's all political about cedar fair but he's sleeping now...I remember him mentioning something about knotts being related to castle park, riverside with its log and train rides...at the time I just let him talk and didn't really pay attention cuz I didn't care for the history of every single ride in california and how they are all related to each other...he's a huge park buff and plans to open one of his own one day...he wants his own monorail and "little dippper" will be his first kiddie coaster and he already has a "tram" made of  golf cars, lol..our neighbors think we're nuts...

I'll ask him later and see if I can get anything outta him for you  :)

Answer 2

I don't know who came up with the idea, but I do know that Six Flags Over Texas had the first. Someone probably just thought the combination of current flowing on a track with a small boat would be a fun ride. Throw in a few drops, and you have a ride almost anyone can ride.

Answer 3

well in the old wild west loggers needed a way to get logs down to the mills so they built v shaped troughs and put water inside it and they used them to transport logs down. Now some guy had the a great idea and decided to ride down on top of one of the logs and i guess it just developed from there. (I forget the guys name).

Answer 4

It might have originated from the loggers riding logs down the flue