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| Knott's Berry Farm | |
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| Location | Buena Park, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 33°50′39″N 118°00′01″W / 33.844178°N 118.000267°W |
| Website | http://www.knotts.com |
| Owner | Cedar Fair Entertainment Company |
| General Manager | Raffi Kaprelyan |
| Opened | 1940 |
| Operating season | Year-round |
| Visitors (per annum) | 3,683,000 in 2013[1] |
| Area | 160 acres (65 ha) |
| Rides | 40 total
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| Slogan | America's 1st Theme Park, California's Best Theme Park |
Knott's Berry Farm is a theme park in Buena Park, California that is owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. Since Cedar Fair bought it the number of people who visited the park has increased. According to the 2013 Global Attractions Attendance Report, it is the 13th most visited theme park in North America.[1] The park has 40 rides, including roller coasters, family rides, children's rides, water rides, and historical rides, and there are plans to make the park bigger in the future.
The theme park sits on what used to be a berry farm that was built by Walter Knott, Cordelia Knott, and their family. Starting around 1920, the family started selling berries, berry preserves, and pies from a roadside stand. In 1934, they started selling fried chicken dinners inside a tea room that is on the farm. They later built shops and other attractions to entertain visitors. In 1940, Walter Knott built a ghost town on the farm, and added other attractions over many years. In 1968, Knott's Berry Farm started to charge people to visit the park. In 1983, the park added Camp Snoopy.
In the 1990s, the Knott children sold the family business after Walter and Cordelia Knott died. The theme park was sold to Cedar Fair and the food business was sold to ConAgra Foods, which was later sold to The J.M. Smucker Company.
Cedar Fair continued to make the park bigger in 1999 by adding Knott's Soak City. They also added more rides to Knott's Berry Farm.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "TEA/AECOM 2013 Global Attractions Report" (PDF). 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2014., p. 29