Smurf Mountain
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Smurf Mountain was a powered train ride located at Kings Dominion amusement park in Doswell, Virginia
. It was located in the Safari Village section of the park inside the Lost World Mountain, a giant styrofoam
mountain that hosted many rides. The ride itself was a small train coaster that traveled into several scenes of Smurfs in their “natural environments”. The ride was originally opened in 1979 as "Journey to the Land of the Dooz" before being re-themed to the Smurfs in 1984. The ride closed midway through the 1995 season to make room for what eventually became Volcano: The Blast Coaster.
Doswell, Virginia
Doswell is an unincorporated community in Hanover County in the Central Region of the U.S. state of Virginia. Originally called Hanover Junction, it was located on the Virginia Central Railroad, which later became part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at a crossing of the Richmond,...
. It was located in the Safari Village section of the park inside the Lost World Mountain, a giant styrofoam
Styrofoam
Styrofoam is a trademark of The Dow Chemical Company for closed-cell currently made for thermal insulation and craft applications. In 1941, researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab found a way to make foamed polystyrene...
mountain that hosted many rides. The ride itself was a small train coaster that traveled into several scenes of Smurfs in their “natural environments”. The ride was originally opened in 1979 as "Journey to the Land of the Dooz" before being re-themed to the Smurfs in 1984. The ride closed midway through the 1995 season to make room for what eventually became Volcano: The Blast Coaster.