A festival celebrating Knott's favorite fruit - the boysenberry? We are SO THERE! This year marks the second annual Knott's Berry Bloom spring season which features giant displays of spring colored blooms, family-friendly activities, and gourmet food & wine tasting. NEW for 2014 celebrates the history of Knott's at the Ghost Town Boysenberry Festival! HOW DELICIOUS!
At the Ghost Town Boysenberry Festival, guests can wine, dine, and find boysenberry goods throughout the streets of the Old West. (Hint: There's a great photo opp near the entrances featuring rustic banners and over-sized boysenberries.) Ghost Town will be filled with the mouthwatering aroma of ribs, chicken, and other charbroiled treats smothered with boysenberry glaze and cooked on open-air BBQ's throughout the streets of the festival. Local artisans will sell unique boysenberry inspired wares during the festival. On School House Road, guests can try their hand at western themed games with a boysenberry twist! Winners can take home an exclusive Boysenberry Festival prize. While enjoying the festival, guests may meet some of the high spirited, fun loving residents of Ghost Town. But watch out for bandits hankerin’ to steal a piece of boysenberry pie.
FUN TIP: Walter & Cordelia Knott’s Original Roadside Boysenberry Stand will be recreated for the special event. The Knott family sold freshly picked boysenberries from the original stand, and the rest, as they say, is history!
PIE EATING CONTEST!
And what’s a festival without a pie eating contest? Daily boysenberry pie eating contests will also take place in front of the Birdcage Theater.
SPECIAL DEMONSTRATIONS!
Strolling the streets of Ghost Town, guests can take in special demonstrations including jarring homemade jam, blacksmithing, and cooking up finger lickin’ homemade boysenberry glazes.
FOOD AND WINE TASTING
Inside Wilderness Dance Hall, guests will find a variety of boysenberry inspired gourmet food and wine offerings from around the world. Just outside of the dance hall, towering sculpted topiaries provide shade during warm April days and twinkle brighter than stars at night.
GREAT PHOTO OPS
Capture the moment and the memories at boysenberry themed stand-in cutouts, each featuring fun historical facts and special moments from Knott’s history. Some will resemble original photo ops from the historic Pitchur Gallery on Main Street.
THE DECOR
When the sun sets on Ghost Town, the buildings and midways light up in festive boysenberry purple hues. Circle fountain transforms into a beautiful floral fountain, adorned with colorful flowers creating an iconic centerpiece for Bloom. Located in the Boardwalk area, the stunning monument will serve as a dramatic backdrop for two spectacular interactive shows. After sundown, larger-than- life flowers and butterflies affixed to the Charleston fountain light the night with LED lighting effects.
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Knott’s Berry Bloom also features an extensive line up of live and interactive entertainment. The iconic Charleston Peanuts Party in the Park returns bigger and more interactive than ever with an all-new rockin’ set list, more Peanuts characters, and tons of fun surprises in Charleston Circle. And this year Knott’s debuts a new night time dance party, Bloomination! butterfly stilt walkers prance among the crowd, and a DJ spins the hottest dance music for all ages.
When the sun sets, things get crazy when Krazy Kirk and the Hillbillies mount their toe tappin’, knee-slappin’, gut-bustin’ country comedy show in front of the Birdcage Theater that has Knott’s audiences clamoring for more!
SEARCH FOR THE EASTER BEAGLE
Last year’s guest favorite, Search for the Easter Beagle returns this year as the Easter Beagle's ENORMOUS Egg Hunt. This year, all five of the interactive Easter Beagle locations will also be prize locations for kids 3-11 years old who are on the hunt for spring time fun. The path will lead explorers to a grand finale meet and greet location with Snoopy in an area of Camp Snoopy created just for this attraction!
THE DECOR
When the sun sets on Ghost Town, the buildings and midways light up in festive boysenberry purple hues. Circle fountain transforms into a beautiful floral fountain, adorned with colorful flowers creating an iconic centerpiece for Bloom. Located in the Boardwalk area, the stunning monument will serve as a dramatic backdrop for two spectacular interactive shows. After sundown, larger-than- life flowers and butterflies affixed to the Charleston fountain light the night with LED lighting effects.
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Knott’s Berry Bloom also features an extensive line up of live and interactive entertainment. The iconic Charleston Peanuts Party in the Park returns bigger and more interactive than ever with an all-new rockin’ set list, more Peanuts characters, and tons of fun surprises in Charleston Circle. And this year Knott’s debuts a new night time dance party, Bloomination! butterfly stilt walkers prance among the crowd, and a DJ spins the hottest dance music for all ages.
When the sun sets, things get crazy when Krazy Kirk and the Hillbillies mount their toe tappin’, knee-slappin’, gut-bustin’ country comedy show in front of the Birdcage Theater that has Knott’s audiences clamoring for more!
SEARCH FOR THE EASTER BEAGLE
BIG BOARDWALK GAMES
Near Xcelarator, challenge one another to an oversized game of shuffle board, giant tic tac toe, larger than life bowling, and more at Big Boardwalk Games. This season, Big Boardwalk Games has sprouted new and exciting games, and throughout the day, Sally and Peppermint Patty come out to play along and challenge park guests to some friendly competition.
NEW CAMP SNOOPY THEATRE
SALSA DANCING!
April 12 – 27, 2014
Knott's Berry Farm
8039 Beach Boulevard
Buena Park, CA
(714) 220-5200
www.knotts.com
Most of the activities are included with admission to Knott’s Berry Farm which also offers a full day of thrilling coasters and family fun rides, like the all-new Boardwalk attractions and the beautifully restored Timber Mountain Log Ride.
EXTENDED HOURS
10am to 10pm
(during Knott’s Berry Bloom)
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