Exterior of GWL Garden Grove, CA
Great Wolf Lodge Garden Grove, CA, also known as Great Wolf Lodge Southern California, or Great Wolf Lodge Anaheim, CA, is a Great Wolf Lodge located in Garden Grove, California on Harbor Blvd. which is in the Orange County area 30 miles south of Los Angeles. It opened in 2016 as the company's 13th location. It is also near the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim and Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park where you can also take a shuttle bus to right from the lodge if you have any passes with those parks on hand. The resort is one of two locations that are in California, the other being in Manteca, CA up near the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the only Great Wolf Lodge to utilize an indoor parking garage structure along with a smaller street level parking lot right beside it near the main entrance.
History[]
Great Wolf Lodge Garden Grove, CA was first announced alongside the Manteca, CA location in late 2010. After several years of planning and financial troubles, construction began around 2014 and later opened in March 2016.
What it features[]
Attractions[]
- Bear Track Landing Waterpark
- MagiQuest Chronicles: Guardians of the Realm Portals
- MagiQuest Chronicles: Rise of the Totem Masters
- Ten Paw Alley
- Northern Lights Arcade
- Howl At The Moon Glow Golf
- Build-A-Bear Workshop
- Raccoon Lagoon
- The Forest Friends Show
Dining[]
- Bear Paw Sweets & Eats
- Buckets Incredible Craveables
- Dunkin' Donuts
- Loose Moose Family Kitchen
- Grizzly Jack's Bar and Grill
- Hungry As A Wolf
- Lodge Wood Fired Grill
Shopping[]
Former Features[]
Attractions[]
Trivia[]
- In addition to being the first location in California as well as being the first with a parking garage with the addition of street level parking near the main entrance, this location was also chosen to beta test MagiQuest Chronicles: Guardians of the Realm Portals or also known by fans as "MagiQuest 2.0".
- some Exterior bits are similar to the Great Wolf Lodge Grapevine, TX location as this could have been designed from the same person(s)
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