New Year and Kentucky Kingdom

Greetings, and happy new year to all! We're now only four months away from May, when many of America's outdoor water parks re-open for another new season of sliding!

As mentioned in the previous blog post, there's plenty of new attractions coming to various amusement and water parks in the United States, with record setters like Verruckt at Schlitterbahn Kansas City, or unique one-of-a-kind slides like Colossal Curl at Water Country USA, or even grand re-openings like Kentucky Kingdom.

While I was still in the Louisville area, I had gone for a small drive by Kentucky Kingdom on December 31st to have a look at the progress made on the park. There wasn't much to see in terms of vertical construction, but plenty of land had been cleared for the water park expansion at the back of the park.
(The following photos were taken from outside of park properties.)

Different colored fiberglass flumes of various sizes were also placed next to each other in a field next to the park.

There wasn't much to be said for the zone where the park's future steel roller coaster Lightning Run would stand as well, but there were many pieces of metal rebar laid out in the area.

While there isn't a whole lot to see now, I read somewhere on the Kentucky Kingdom's Facebook page that construction may pick up sometime this month; although since I can't find the comment anymore to confirm this, we may have to leave this as a rumor until it actually happens. I will have to return to college by mid January, so I personally won't be able to keep up with progress on the park as it happens. The best source to find updates will have to be the official park's Facebook and Twitter pages.