Kolmården Photo TR

So with the massive Wildfire project being teased about in another topic here on TPR: Click

It was really clear that almost no one on here have ever heard of the place before, so I decided to dig up some images from when me and my brother visited the place on our way back from Stockholm, after crashing the last TPR Scandi trip in 2009 for a few days.

During all my childhood, we have driven past the place several times a year, but this was actually my first visit to the place.

The park is a massive thing, we mainly stopped by to do a credit run, but since the place is so massive it took us over 1.5 hours to enter the park, ride the coaster and then head back out again. And no we didn't really stop to admire the animals, most of the images are taken on the go

So it's basically a giant Zoo that is nestled in a massive forest, it caters to family's, with younger children, and it's located almost 2 hours south west from Stockholm, pretty near the Skavsta airport (where you end up if you fly to Stockholm with Ryanair).

So it's very likely that there have been massive changes since, but this will give you a taste of Kolmården!!

Enjoy!!

Arrived on a hot summers day at Kolmården

Yay, they have a escalator to enter the park, beats walking up a hill anyday

Some animal greeted us

Playground

Not sure if this is part of an obstacle course or an animal enclosure, no matter what, at TPR trip will use it to it's fullest anyway

Let's head in that direction

Some ride

Animal

Ostrich

Looks pretty funky

Snow leopards

Tiger carving

Makes sense since this is Tiger World

Hmm, which way to go..

Too bad that the sunken bus wasn't part of the tough way, must have missed the extreme way..

Tigers chilling

It was pretty hot this day

Random fox, no idea how this image ended up in here among the tigers

I wonder if that's blood or just paint, they didn't look that hungry though

One of the many cable cars

YAY, credit!! Why did they build it at the other end of the park

A massive ropeway up in the trees

More ropeway

Even more

It goes on and on

Massive thing this

Finally at Marine World, new for 2009

I can spy a coaster

Miami themed area, looked really nice

Yay, roller-skater

What it's called

Ticket!!

Dolphin themed trains

For the control panel fans

Clever themeing

Of course we went for the last row, wonder how much down force that fin creates..

Rides like any other Roller-Skater if I remember correctly

Final picture

Mmmm Ice-cream perfect on a hot day like this

Heading back to the entrance, past the monkeys

More

Even more

There are animals everywhere

Into the depths of the African Savanna

Elephants

Zebras

Massive Savanna

All the animals kept to themselves

YAY Gobi Desert!!

It was hot like it though.

Hmmm

Last thing we saw was the Wolves

These were fast and hard to get a good image of

Looking for pray

And that's it!!

My only visit to the place, but by the looks of it, then it's time for a revisit in 2016!!

Huh. Only one coaster? Ten wildfire should definitely put it on the map. But the animal part of it looks pretty sweet. And I like that there's a sky ride. I bet that gives some good views of the animals!

That looks like a nice zoo! I can't wait to see what it looks like when Wildfire comes Great trip report!

Thanks for sharing the photos. I had no idea what Kolmarden was, either, when I saw the Wildfire announcement. Looks like a nice place.

Amazing TR! Really nice park, hopefully Wildfire means it would start to transform to a world class park. Only two weeks and three days left.

Thanks for sharing the photos. I had no idea what Kolmarden was, either, when I saw the Wildfire announcement. Looks like a nice place.

I think that it's fair to say that the vast majority of posters on TPR had no idea either.

I agree about the nice animal displays. Maybe Kolmarden is trying to become the Busch Gardens of Sweden?

Thanks for the TR, looks like a very nice place.

And I like that there's a sky ride. I bet that gives some good views of the animals!

There is now two of them, the second ropeway opened in 2011 and was build by Dopplemayr. May I post a few pics? (not mine)

The entrance to the newest cable car.

Beautiful cabins Omega IV by CWA.

Here's the course.

There're five turns like that during the course, which is very unusual for such installation.

Say hello to the giraffes!

Photos courtesy of Remontées-mécaniques.net.

Maybe Kolmarden is trying to become the Busch Gardens of Sweden?

Yes, and they are on their way! The new Tiger exhibit opened 2007, Marine World with the Delfinexpressen coaster 2008/2009, Safari cable car ride 2011, new dolphin show in 2013 and now 2014 they are investing large money again! Bamses Värld (Bamses world) will be a theme park for children opening next year and Wildfire something spectacular. After that I hope for some new additions and renovations in the animal section too Personally I would like a new ape exhibit and a new elephant exhibit as these are some of the oldest in the zoo. The big advantages is that they are in the middle of nowhere with lots of space to grow, a stunning landscape with a wonderful view of the sea where ever you go.

Here is a few more pictures from Kolmården!

Safari savannah

Tiger world viewing

The restaurant

Safari

The view from the safari

Safari lions

Safari view

Safari deers

Will this be the view from the Widfire?? From the top of the Safari...

Birds of prey show

Elephant show

Can you spot the bear???

Elephant calf

Lions in the woods

Siberian tiger

Amazing, stunning and touching interactive dolphinshow! One of a kind!!

Dolphinshow

Ooo, the park have done some nice progress since I was there. Feel free to post more images.

They really have a lot of potential, too bad though that they have the same problem as Skara Sommarland, it's a bit of a trek to get there in the first place.

Wow, looks like they've got the space, the money, and a great plan already in the works.