Site of new Knott's ride has past of berries, bears and dinosaurs

There have been berries and bears, canyons and the Cretaceous period.

Now, there’s a kraken.

The building that’s home to Knott’s Berry Farm’s new crown jewel, Voyage to the Iron Reef, has been a part of the park for more than 40 years. And even before a structure rose up here, the swath was a piece of the Knott family operations, starting out as a slice of the farm.

“The thing I’m the most excited about is it keeps getting reinvented,” said Darrel Anderson, 70, a grandson of Knott’s founders Walter and Cordelia. “They’ve invested in the history, and they’re keeping things fresh. Things like this take the park into a new ring.”

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