winds its way down a heavily wooded area on the side of the park, with numerous forks allowing riders to take different routes. Unlike in other parks, the river trough was crafted to look like a natural riverbed, with jets in the bed at various points adding to the rapid roughness. Riders carried their rafts from the bottom of the ride up to the starting point. Once on the ride, they would travel down a short incline, propelling them down the ride. As they made it past the first turn, gaining speed was common. After a few turns, the riders would come to a fork. At the Main Fork', riders would pass under a drenching waterfall into a dark tunnel with many twists, turns, and jagged rocks. Upon exiting the tunnel, riders would twist and turn some more until they reached a small rock pool, and slowly floated out. The final stretch of the river consisted of a large downhill portion complete with bumps, and a jump where the rafts would momentarily catch air and then slam back onto the surface. At the Alternative Forks, riders would float along a relatively smooth path until they rounded a corner with a waterfall, and another fork. One path would take riders back to the main path, and dump them at the tunnel's end. The other fork would reconnect with the main path before the rock pool. Originally, a fork carried riders down a set of steep drops, before a curved drop into the main path right at the end. In the late 1980s, this path was merged into the main pathway, creating the rock pool, and final hill, that are still in use today. Today, the first fork is closed off, but the points where the forks reconnect to the main path are still connected to the ride. Originally, riders rode this attraction two at a time, in yellow inflatable dinghies. This was later replaced with large, circular, four-person rafts (in the Mountain Creek era, a lift was put in place that carried rafts to the beginning, eliminating the need for riders to carry them up the hill). Because the ride trough was designed to look and feel like an actual riverbed, the ride was rough. Not uncommonly, people would hit heads with the other riders, or the rafts would climb the walls after hitting them at high speed (now they wear