Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom


The current entrance to Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom with Talon's lift hill in the background
Location Allentown, [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
Coordinates 40°34′40.59″N 75°31′53.50″W
Website Official website
Owner Cedar Fair Entertainment Company
General Manager Michael Fehnel
Opened 1884
Operating season April through early November
Area 200 acres (0.81 km2)
Rides 59 total
  • 8 roller coasters
  • 18 water rides
Slogan Thrills Connect

History

Dorney Park traces its history to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and summer resort on his estate outside of Allentown. In 1870, Dorney decided to convert the estate into a public attraction. Initially, the facility featured games, playground-style rides, refreshment stands, picnic groves, a hotel, and a restaurant. By the 1880s, Dorney had added a small zoo, and gardens.[1]

Halloween Haunt

Halloween Haunt is an annual event that is held from September to October. The park hires around 700 people for this event.[2] It was originally introduced in 1998 as Halloweekends, but was rebranded Halloween Haunt in 2008.

Current attractions

Halloween Haunt currently features 10 attractions including seven mazes and three scare zones, as well as roaming Street Talent sliders and actors, and two live mainstage shows (Blood Drums and Overlord's Resurrection).[3]

Attraction Type Opened Location
Age of Darkness Scare Zone 2011 Road Rally Midway
Urgent Scare (The Ward) Maze 2016 Possessed Midway
Blackout Maze 2014 Talon Midway
CarnEVIL Scare Zone 2014 Hydra Plaza
Chamber Of Horrors: Wax Museum Maze 2014 Funzone Arcade
Cornstalkers: Barn Bred & Blood Fed Maze 2008 (Renovated in 2015) Demon Drop Plaza
Blood on the Bayou Maze 2016 Across from Cedar Creek Cannonball
Necropolis Scare Zone 2018 Behind Revolution
Tourist Trap Maze 2017 Food Fest Groves
Trick Or Treat - Lights Out Maze 2015 (Lights Out new for 2018) Steel Force Plaza

Attraction history
YearAttractions
12008 Returning attractions: Magical House on Kill Hill, Screamworks
Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Doctor of Doom (received clown theme)
New attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Headstone Hollow, Terror Square
22009 Returning attractions: Magical House on Kill Hill, Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Headstone Hollow
Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Psycho Circus (renaming of Dr. Doom)
New attractions: Pirate Passage, The Gauntlet, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap
32010 Returning attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Headstone Hollow, Pirate Passage, The Gauntlet, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap, Psycho Circus
New attractions: Mansion House Hotel
42011 Returning attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap, Psycho Circus
New attractions: Cut Throat Island, Age of Darkness, Grave Walkers
52012 Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Death Trap, Cut Throat Island, Age of Darkness, Grave Walkers, Psycho Circus
New attractions: Desolation, Blood Shed, Head Hunters
62013 Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Blood Shed, Cut Throat Island, Grave Walkers, Psycho Circus
Upgraded/Renovated attractions: Age of Darkness (expanded into Death Trap's attraction area and received new props), Head Hunters (received expansive new set pieces)
72014 Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Blood Shed, Grave Walkers, Age of Darkness, Head Hunters
Relocated Attractions: Cut Throat Island (Relocated from Hydra Plaza to White Water Landing Midway)
New attractions: Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (Fright Lane only)
Discontinued Attractions: Psycho Circus
82015 Returning Attractions: Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Grave Walkers, Age of Darkness (slight expansion to create a Skeleton Key room), Cut Throat Island, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (Fright Lane only)
Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Cornstalkers: Barn Bred and Blood Fed (Relocated from Wildwater Kingdom to the Demon Drop plaza, combined with Blood Shed, given a new Skeleton Key room, and renamed)
New Attractions: Trick or Treat (located in the Steel Force Plaza)
Discontinued Attractions: Head Hunters, Blood Shed
92016 Returning Attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel (new Skeleton Key Room), Grave Walkers, Trick or Treat, Age of Darkness, Cut Throat Island (added Skeleton Key Room), Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (No longer Fright Lane only)
New Attractions: Blood on the Bayou, The Ward (later renamed Urgent Scare)
Discontinued Attractions: Desolation, The Asylum[4]
102017 Returning Attractions: Age of Darkness, Blackout, Blood on the Bayou, Grave Walkers, Trick or Treat, Cut Throat Island, Cornstalkers, Urgent Scare, CarnEvil, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum
New Attractions: Tourist Trap
Discontinued Attractions: Mansion House Hotel
11 2018 Returning Attractions: Age of Darkness, Blackout, Blood on the Bayou, Trick or Treat (new "Lights Out" theme), Cornstalkers, Urgent Scare, CarnEvil, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, Tourist Trap
New Attractions: Necropolis (Grave Walkers replacement/ upgrade)
Discontinued Attractions: Grave Walkers, Cut Throat Island

References
  1. "History". Dorney Park official website. Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
  2. Lauer-Williams, Kathy (September 20, 2014). "Dorney Park's Halloween Haunt offers extreme screams". The Morning Call. Archived from the original on 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
  3. "Halloween Haunt attractions". Dorney Park. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  4. "Michael Fehnel on Twitter". twitter.com.
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