Castle Creek Adventure Land — Local services in Salem

Expensive but huge portions. The ice cream is Richardson's but service is highly variable. Sometimes it's fast and the workers are lovely as was the case much of last year. This year nice but not as customer oriented and on the slower side. The lid to my almost $8 frappe was not on correctly, it tipped slightly in my cupholder, and spilled all over in between the seats, about 2/3 of it. I went back for napkins and they said "oh" and didn't even offer to help by giving some paper towels or to make it again. She was clearly young but still, basic customer service - or just being a nice person in general. I didn't push it as someone was already waiting and had been for quite awhile while one worker sat at the computer, another talked to them, and one woman was actually working on behalf of the three. That one gave me an extra lid and the others still did...

This is a very hilly miniature golf. Quite fun! Most of 18 holes are on an upslope, a few on a downslope, making for some hilarious restarts of your putting efforts. There are some water features here too for several of the holes, but they were dry on the day we visited; the main pump was removed for maintenance. Other than the pump, the course was well maintained and in good repair.

Adjacent the mini golf is a cart racing track. You can purchase tickets for either, or save a bit with a combination ticket. We skipped the cart racing, but it looked fun. The ticket office also sells ice cream.

On the day of our visit, we were the only customers. They had to turn on the lights just for us. We arrived at dusk, of course, but the park was open for another two hours. I couldn't think of why others were not there; it was...

Not allergy friendly when it comes to peanut allergy. Apparently they use the same scooper in all the ice cream containers so there is cross contamination. Rather than cleaning off a scooper like they do at Richardsons I guess the 25 seconds is too much to ask to allow a kid to enjoy an ice-cream with his friends. Way to make a kid who already feels embarrassed and isolated with a nut allergy to feel worse in front of his friends..

All they have to do is keep one scooper on the side for food allergies and don't mix the scoop with multiple ice cream at once..

They should also post sign stating that they cannot serve icecream to those with nut allergies so parents can spare the kid the embarassment of being denied.

Not happy with the way they run it. I just won't go back. They can run it as they see fit so I will...