[lingerdog]

^ Reading through that I find they were approved for 6 3\4 acres of grading on the NC side, so assuming they do at least the same amount of work on the SC side we're looking at at least 13 1\2 acre expansion.

[tarheel1231]

^ The current water park is 20 acres so we're potentially looking at Carolina Harbor being 30+ acres total. That's about the same size as Splash Country. Next year's gonna be fun!

[chknwing]

unless they are grading the current water park. dun dun dunnn!

[gabed]

Would it really be a big loss though?

[pproteinc]

Hey maybe the waterpark will transform to the one they show on the carowinds commercial for boomerang bay with the lake in the middle.

[tarheel1231]

I thought this was a good article about water parks. Same kinda logic why Carowinds would get a mega water park expansion.

This is basically the gist of the article:

People are far more likely to book airplane flights and pile the kids into the car for a long roadtrip to ride a record-setting roller coaster or visit a beloved character such as Harry Potter than they are to visit even the best water park. But a water park next to a theme park can help entice a family to extend its visit an extra day more cost-effectively than building enough additional theme park attractions to do the same thing. (And, in the case of regional theme parks, water parks can help convince more locals to go ahead and buy that annual pass than the theme park alone would.)

[chknwing]

I dunno if this has been discussed yet, but reading about the NC permit for demolition and grading on screamscape, they state its for over 6 acres. I wanted to see what 6 acres would be at carowinds so I made this. Thunder Roads turnaround sits on just 2 acres. This is going to be quite big just on the NC side.

[FamousAmos]

I have only two questions...
1) what is/are large enough to require six acres of land? Any ideas?
2) how much of the original 50 million is left?

[mightyray23]

*chanting* Iog flume log flume log flume

[tarheel1231]

I have only two questions...
1) what is/are large enough to require six acres of land? Any ideas?
2) how much of the original 50 million is left?

Going strictly off of the original list There's about $6.5 million left, but from my understanding the $50 million was a bonus in addition to the original budget. But $6.5 million alone could buy a decent sized water coaster (I think Wildebeest was $5 million). I've also heard that the expansion is being done in phases, and that the $50 million was only phase one which ended this year with Fury325.

[mightyray23]

^I hope some of the money goes to a scarowinds honestly....

[coasterchitchat]

I have only two questions...
1) what is/are large enough to require six acres of land? Any ideas?

SFOG got a wave pool, a combo slide, a slide complex, a play structure and some other minor stuff for 7 acres. Carowinds can really get a lot of stuff in 6.75 acres if they use the available land properly.

[Jarsh]

But that waterpark was the biggest investment in the chain that year - even more than Full Throttle and Iron Rattler. I'm not sure Cedar Fair is spending that kind of money for this addition. I mean, they could, but that's a whole lotta cash to invest in a property that just had the lions share of 2015's investment money.

[jordN1414]

#iknowwateryourdoing2016

[Jonathan]