Tornado Springs at Paultons Park Review

Time to join as a Storm Chaser at Tornado Springs, Paultons Parks new for 2021 themed area! 8 incredible new rides and experiences themed to a midwest desert resort town in the American heyday of the 1950’s. Tornado Springs is a vacation like no other!

Paultons Park has now started its 2021 season on April 12th, due to the restrictions of outdoor attractions now being lifted from the pandemic. Paultons Park is the UK’s number 1 family theme park, located in Hampshire with over 70 exciting rides and attractions. Home to the well known Peppa Pig World, the park has expanded with Lost Kingdom back in 2017 and new for 2021, Tornado Springs. 

Originally due to open back in 2020, they had to delay the opening because of the pandemic. With many years and with the added delay to the opening of the new midwest American themed town, Tornado Springs opening is now one of the most anticipated openings across UK theme parks for 2021. 

We took a visit on opening day to take a further look into Tornado Springs alongside the rest of Paultons Park for the season ahead!

For anybody who does not know what Tornado Springs is already, it’s a new themed area within Paultons Park. Featuring 8 new rides such as a spinning coaster, gyro swing and driving school, it comes as an exciting addition to the park. 

Tornado Springs is perfect for children and adults! The rides feature low thrills for younger audiences such as Al’s Auto Academy, which is a driving school to Cyclonator, a gyro swing ride that spins and swings you to a height of 25 metres!

Tornado Springs has a highly detailed themed area with a powerful story for all folks. Being located on Route 83, you can meet the residents through their attractions within Tornado Springs and if your brave, you can be a true storm chaser!

Storm Chaser

Storm Chaser is a spinning rollercoaster manufactured by Mack Rides. It is the headline attraction in Tornado Springs and now arguably the whole park! The experience includes a detailed indoor queue line and an immersive barnyard station where you get ready to set off on your storm chasing adventure. The coaster has a height restriction of only 1m, and isn’t overly intense, making it a perfect family attraction. However thrillseekers will still find it fun, and has its surpassingly forceful moments on the helixes!

Will you take an exhilrating ride on the spinning and swirling Storm Chaser?

Cyclonator

Cyclonator is one mighty gyro swing which spins and swings you to a height of 25 metres! Only for true thrill seekers, it offers a great intense ride experience for this type of ride. Lasting around 2 minutes long, it is perfect ride for the slightly older family members and a challenge for the younger thrill seekers. You must be 1.2 metres tall to ride and to experience the awesome power.

Cyclonator fits in with the theme as it harvests the crops for the residents of Tornado Springs. They need your help to do so however before the next Tornado comes! 

Will this gyro swing pendulum ride leave you in a spin?

 

Other Rides & Attractions

Tornado Springs has many other rides to fill the area and to make it a great new themed land to the park. Al’s Auto Academy allows you to take the wheel and head out on Route 83, perfect for the much younger audience. Two super fun drop towers named Windmill Towers have also been installed, providing power generation out in the crooked countryside! Buffalo Falls is a classic family water slide that allows you to take in the views across Tornado Springs. Trekking Tractors is another perfect attraction for the younger audience, as you enjoy a leisurely trip around the farm and try to avoid some cheeky groundhogs! Finally, the Rio Grande Train Ride takes passengers on a delightful journey through Tornado Springs and other areas of Paultons Park, Choo Choo!

Two play areas have also been installed in the area called Junkyard Junction and Parking Lot Tots, both being fun playgrounds for all kids.

Food, Drinks & Gifts

Tornado Springs offers a new selection to the parks food, drinks and gifts offering. Route 83 Diner is the main new food outlet within the heart of the town, allowing you to enjoy a taste of way out west in a classic American diner! Whilst we couldn’t eat in the diner, it was themed to the American diner style well and offered a great selection of burgers, hot dogs and chicken.  All that can be ordered on a touch screen ordering point! 

Al’s Shop & Service is the only place within Tornado Springs to get yourself some new gear. Offering the new range of Tornado Springs clothing, there is magnets, pin badges, key chains and even some really unique offerings you can purchase in the store. This is also where you can pick up your driving license after your young ones have been on the driving school next door!

Overall, Tornado Springs is a fantastic family addition to Paultons Park. Offering a great mix of rides and attractions from the thrill additions being Storm Chaser & Cyclonator, to the family rides such as Windmill Towers and Buffalo Falls. There is something for everybody within this latest instalment to the park.

Tornado Springs really does make the park feel so much more complete and with more offerings than ever before, you can see why Paultons Park is value for money! 

We really did enjoy our visit to the park on their opening day, which was a success in ours and many other visitors opinions. Let us know your thoughts if you get down by Route 83 and stop off at Tornado Springs! 

Tornado Springs Merch Giveaway!

Fancy winning some Tornado Springs Merchandise? Enter our giveaway below to win £20 worth of pre chosen merchandise that was bought from the area on opening day! This includes a notepad, magnet, pin badge & 2 keyrings! Click on the image for full details or complete the simple form below for quick entry!
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW ENDED!

Tornado Springs Merch Giveaway
  • 1 winner
  • Value:
    £20
  • Prize:
    Tornado Springs Merch: Notepad, 2 Keyrings, Magnet & Pin badge

Tornado Springs Merch Giveaway

Ended

Rules

This giveaway is sponsored by us, Thrill Nation, and not associated with Paultons Park.
The competition will run for 2 weeks from April 13th 8am to April 27th 8pm BST. 
All entries must agree to our cookies, privacy and competition policy and if you do not, your entry will be void.
To enter, you must complete the relevant form above alongside any additional entries through any other methods. 
Thrill Nation has the option to revoke the competition at any time if they so wish. 
The winner will be contacted via the details they provide in the form and failure to respond in a reasonable amount of time may void their win. 
The competition will award 1 winner. The winner will receive 5 bits of merch from Paultons Park Tornado Springs area costing £20 (already preselected and purchased)
Anybody found to be cheating the system will be excluded from this and all other giveaways hosted by Thrill Nation.
Entries must live in the UK and have a valid UK registered address where the prize can be sent. 
All details given will be enrolled into the Thrill Nation Newsletter email automatically

Tornado Springs in 1 minute

Walk Through Tornado Springs

official website

Paultons Park Logo

book a visit

BOOK DIRECTLY FOR THE BEST PRICES

More REVIEWS & news

Psycho Path 2026 Review

Psycho Path 2026 Review

INTRODUCTION Recognised as the North East's largest scream park, Psycho Path returns for the 2026...

Energylandia 2026 Review

Energylandia 2026 Review

With summer drawing to a close, there was really only one destination on our minds to catch the...

Thrill Website Logo

Thrillnation.net is your ultimate resource for unbiased reviews of thrilling attractions across Europe. You'll find us covering theme parks, escape rooms, water parks and more.

Follow Us

For all of our latest news and up-to-date goings on, make sure you follow us on our social media channels!

WORK WITH US

We can offer a variety of different services from sponsored reviews to video content creation. Get in touch to discuss working with us.

Website lovingly created and managed by INOV8 Marketing