Photo TR: Santa's North Pole Workshop

In December my family and I visited Santa's North Pole Workshop (the park is open until the end of the year). The park is located just outside Colorado Springs on a mountain side along the roadway that goes to the top of Pikes Peak. The park is family owned and is very clean and well maintained. I felt like we had stepped back in time, to an era of small roadside parks. The park also gave me a chance to grab a rare coaster credit with their Candy Cane kids coaster. Hope you enjoy the pics.

Entrance Sign

Our Crew

Main shopping and dining area with a boy's toyshop and a girl's toyshop

No visit to the North Pole is complete without a visit with Santa

Candy Cane Coaster

One really fun slide

Great Photos! Curious Is that park only open in the winter?

Great Photos! Curious Is that park only open in the winter?

No, the park opens in May and remains open until the end of December. To bad more American parks don't stay open longer. This park is about 7,000 to 8,000 feet up and still manages to successfully stay open through early winter. I might add, the park was packed the day we were there.

ragerunner - I edited your post by uploading all your photos to the TPR server so that I could add it to TPR's Park Index.

Thanks for showing our members another small family park.

Wow I can't believe that place is still in operation. We almost went there about 15 years ago when I was a kid, but we decided not to go because my parents aren't really amusement park people. That's nice to see that it has that charm that you don't typically see in parks anymore.

Wow I can't believe that place is still in operation. We almost went there about 15 years ago when I was a kid, but we decided not to go because my parents aren't really amusement park people. That's nice to see that it has that charm that you don't typically see in parks anymore.

It been around since 1956. What was cool about the park is you felt like you really had went back in time.

That looks like a really nice park. I've never been crazy about parks themed to Santa and the North Pole but they really pulled it off. The Space Shuttle and Flyers don't really fit in the way they're currently themed though.

Wow, these photos look like the ones in the park index!

Very cool! Thanks for the photos.. It looks pretty small - does it get busy in the Summer or is it mostly a family tradition in the area to come at Christmas?

I'm pretty sure I went here as a small child with my family. I'll have to investigate some old photo albums next time I'm at my parents house!

Very cool! Thanks for the photos.. It looks pretty small - does it get busy in the Summer or is it mostly a family tradition in the area to come at Christmas?

From my understanding, it stays fairly busy in the summer time. They have annual passes and it captures a lot of the Pikes Peak tourist crowd, which is the most visited mountain in the US.

Like Elissa I'm fairly certain I went there at least once as a very small child back when we lived outside of Denver. Looks like a nice small park, its always cool to see rides going with some snow on the ground.

I'm pretty sure I went here as a small child with my family. I'll have to investigate some old photo albums next time I'm at my parents house!

Are you sure you're not confusing this with Santa's Workshop in Upstate New York?

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=711072#p711072

We used to go out to Colorado a lot. Even almost moved there, so I'm pretty sure it was out there. It was a trip where we also went to the Estes Model Rocket factory place.

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