In 2000, we built, owned and began operating Giggle Ridge Adventure Golf. A year later, we drew up plans to expand the golf course with a new railroad and bumper boats. The railway was to wind around a mountain, which would have hidden our house and a studio inside. As part of that plan, the Imagination Corporation would have become Giggle Ridge Studio Incorporated, and I would concentrate on concept design only from that point forward. I created the artwork for a new website, business cards and brochures and drew up the plans for the entire project, and we presented the concept to the park board where Giggle Ridge was located, but we could not agree on terms for a long lease. With that deal not possible, we instead bought our property in Yarrow and built our studio, shop and house there. Instead of putting away my tools, we would continue to design and build fanciful creations for customers far and wide. Looking back, this was the perfect plan.
Cultus Lake Adventure Park
I dropped in to visit our friends at Cultus Lake Adventure Park yesterday. We’ve done a whole lot of work throughout the park through the years. Everything is looking great! The trees and landscaping have sure filled in and grown tall, making our features and signs look even better over time. The owners and crew are very busy these days, making the park ready to welcome guests starting June 24. https://www.cultus.com/cultus-lake-adventure-park/
Giggle Ridge Mountain
Some of our most ambitious and detailed projects have been for ourselves. We know what is truly possible if there are no constraints. One of those projects back in 2001 was a proposed expansion of Giggle Ridge Adventure Golf which we owned at the time. Our ambitious plan was to add a railroad which would have travelled around a giant mountain and over a themed bumper boat pool in the middle of the space. Inside the mountain would have been our house, shop and studio. For a variety of reasons that project never came to fruition and we instead purchased our current property and built a new house and studio here. The concept art is still in my files. We are considering introducing some of these concept drawings as limited edition prints if there is sufficient interest.
