The Gold Sink at High Chaparral is awarded Gnosjö Municipality's Architect Prize 2020

High Chaparral is awarded Gnosjö Municipality's architectural prize for Golden Creek, the theme park's own Gold Wash. The award was received by Gnosjö City Council on Thursday.

- "The gold sink was a great innovation that we really believed in and invested in. The fact that it was so well received by our visitors and that we are now receiving an award for it is really great and further proof that the idea we had was really good," says Mattias Tambour, Park Manager and Deputy CEO of High Chaparral.

The gold pan was inaugurated in 2019 and is designed to show how gold panning was done at the end of the 17th century, the era that High Chaparall brings to life. A mountain of rocks was built to illustrate where the gold comes from, and visitors pan for gold in river channels leading from the mountain. The environment is further enhanced with water wheels and gutters, as well as rafts to pull across the water and rocks in the water to jump between to get from land to the island.

Gnosjö Municipality's Architecture Prize
Gnosjö Municipality's Architecture Prize aims to recognize projects that, through good architecture, have added value to society and helped to strengthen the unique qualities of the Gnosjö spirit. Projects built or completed during the last three years are eligible to be nominated for the architecture prize. A nomination for the architecture prize can be made by anyone. (Source: Gnosjo.se)