Fort Mackenzie (also known as Talking Stick Treehouse and Otter Cave Waterworks) is an interactive city located in the Bear Track Landing Waterpark at all Great Wolf Lodge locations. It has a treehouse theming to it. Fort Mackenzie has many interactive water toys and kid-activated splash features. It is also where the Totem Towers are located at as well as the tipping bucket. Fort Mackenzie locations once featured a large figure of Yellow Feather, but they have been mostly removed in recent years.
While all Lodges include this feature, it varies in size from location to location; to date, five main variations of Fort Mackenzie exist.
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The icon for Fort Mackenzie from the old Great Wolf Lodge website.
Version one of Fort Mackenzie at the Sandusky, OH location. This version is found at the oldest locations, having first been installed at Black Wolf Lodge and Great Bear Lodge prior to their rebranding.
A 2001 brochure for the Great Bear Lodge, with Fort Mackenzie referred to as the 'Treehouse Waterfort'.
The second version of Fort Mackenzie at the Niagara Falls, ON location, found at the Mason, OH, Pocono Mountains, PA, and Niagara Falls, ON locations.
The original logo for Fort Mackenzie. Note the Photoshop to cover the Black Wolf Lodge name replaced with 'Great'.
The third version found at the Grapevine, TX location. Also found at Grand Mound, WA.
The fourth version of Fort Mackenzie, found at Great Wolf Lodge locations in the late 2010s
The fifth version at Perryville, MD, the first under the "Otter Cave" title