When was kings dominion founded

The King Cobra, the first stand-up, steel looping roller coaster in the United States, opened in , and the Vortex, a roller coaster that turned riders upside down six times, more than any other coaster in the world at the time, opened in Twilight admission, or admission after 4 p. Kings Dominion opens for the season on May For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit kingsdominion. In we're making room for more fun, more laughs and more thrills will our Planet Snoopy expansion that includes 3 new thrill rides- Kite Eating Tree, Sally's Sea Plane, and Peanuts Also expanding the Planet Snoopy experience includes a new event space and upgraded food and beverage locations.

Kings Dominin will also be adding free park WIFI for guests and introducing FunPix, a fun and easy way to capture, collect, and share photos while you're at the park. The construction of Kings Dominion began October 1, It took nearly two years to build the park. Attractions for the first season in included the Lion Country Safari and the Scooby Doo roller coaster. After less than two years of construction, Kings Dominion opened to the public on May 3, That day, approximately 20, guests enjoyed the park.

More than 1. Families raced down 12 hills on the Rebel Yell racing roller coaster, took a spin on the Carousel, viewed the musical revue "Give My Regards to Broadway" in the Mason Dixon Music Hall and observed the park atop a foot-tall Eiffel Tower.

Bengal tigers arrived at the animal preserve. The King Kobra roller coaster was the new attraction this year, featuring a foot drop. The Kings Quarters Hotel also opened. The degree theater opened, which allowed visitors to cruise through the Baja desert and see a volcano up close! This season saw the park unveil the Grizzly, a wooden roller coaster in a forest setting with an foot drop and high-speed twists and turns.

Also new was The Showplace, a 7,seat, outdoor concert venue. White Water Water Canyon opened this year, presenting guests with a fun, thrilling watery course and spouting geysers. Riders were assured they would get wet on this ride.

Berserker, a giant Viking ship that takes riders through a series of degree loops, was added to the park's lineup of world-class thrills this year. Land of the Dooz was replaced by Smurf Mountain. Kings Dominion celebrates its 10th anniversary season. A new water ride was added this year, Diamond Falls. Also added was a new children's play area, Scooby's Play Park. It was standing room only this year, as Shockwave was introduced as the first stand-up roller coaster on the East Coast.

The interest in the new ride helped drive attendance over the 2 million mark for the first time in park history. Racing Rivers, featuring three different types of water slides Torpedo, Splashdown and Riptide , was the new attraction this year.

On the business side, KECO reorganized so that the company owned and managed Kings Dominion, Carowinds, as well as the entertainment and design division, Kings Productions. New this year is Avalanche, a bobsled-style family roller coaster with twisting curves, deep valleys and steep hills. New this year is Sky Pilot.

This exciting ride allowed guests to determine their own flight pattern, including the option to spin a dizzying degrees. The park's 15th anniversary season saw a fresh new look in Hanna-Barbera Land. The expansion included the addition of five new children's rides, more characters, as well as new games and shows.

Started on May 3 rd , by Family Leisure Centers a partnership between Taft Broadcasting Company and Top Value Enterprises , the park now spreads over acre land featuring over 60 rides, attractions and shows, 12 roller coasters and about acre water park. Currently, the amusement park is owned and operated by Cedar Fair. Tony Johnson is the General Manager of the amusement park. We got here on the 8th and settled in then went to the park the next day but to my disappointment half of the amusement rids and half of the water park rids were closed.

It is our first time here to kings dominion after hearing so many great things about it but I am sad to say we were very disappointed and the kids were heartbroken because we talked it up so much. Major coaster action struck again on March 23, On King Kobra's old territory, a new coaster rose before diving under Lake Charles in the first ever underwater tunnel on a ride and looping through four inversions over the lake.

The serpent theme was carried over and the new Arrow Dynamics-crafted coaster was named Anaconda. Meanwhile, the other two-thirds of the lake had been reclaimed for a six-acre expansion bringing Kings Dominion its own waterpark, Hurricane Reef, the next year, complete with fifteen different slides. A change of a different kind came in when Paramount purchased Kings Entertainment Company, and the park became known as Paramount's Kings Dominion.

Now the theme park could begin incorporating movie and TV-related themes into the experience, and the first of those came that season with the conversion of the cinema to a motion simulator theater, and its first feature being Days of Thunder. Later that year, Smurf Mountain closed.

Another movie theme was introduced in when the small themed section Wayne's World opened containing the relocated Parrot Troopers flying scooters, renamed Scream Weaver; and Hurler, an International Coasters Incorporated triple-out and back woodie with statistics close to those of Grizzly. With Hurler, the claim of the only park in the world with five wooden tracks was made possible.

Nickelodeon Splat City, a new kids' play area, was 's addition. Outer Limits: Flight of Fear shortened to Flight of Fear in from Premier Rides debuted in along with its sister ride at Paramount's Kings Island as the world's first Linear Induction Motor-propelled coaster, and featured a themed indoor dark ride twister experience with four inversions. Another explosion of coaster innovation came with Volcano: the Blast Coaster in late - the first ever LIM-launched inverted coaster.

Created by Intamin, the coaster's most unique quality was its location interacting with the former Lost World mountain which had seen all of its former attractions disappear in past years, and the world's tallest inversion erupting from the mountain's peak at feet.

PKD's visitors cooled off the next year when the waterpark was tripled in acreage and expanded into former monorail land to become WaterWorks, and the slide complex Pipeline Peak was then added in along with the expansion of Nickelodeon Splat City onto the former site of Racing Rivers with the new section theme Nickelodeon Central and the Nickelodeon Space Surfer spinning ride.

Becoming the launched coaster capital of the world, Kings Dominion blasted off the world's single fastest-accelerating coaster in March by being the first park to utilize the power of compressed air on a coaster. Beside HyperSonic, PKD would add their fourth family-friendly coaster and thirteenth track overall with the wild mouse Ricochet in along with the Triple Spin flat ride that year. But one ride, Diamond Falls, left after the '02 season. The Paramount's Kings Dominion skyline changed forever in with the addition of Drop Zone Stunt Tower, the longest-plunging freefall ride on the continent.

At feet, Intamin's Drop Zone rose in the center of the park to rival the height of the Eiffel Tower and drop fifty-six riders at a time feet straight down. In , families were the focus when Scooby Doo and the Haunted Mansion brought interactive dark ride fun to the theme park. And next year, Kings Dominion pulled the wraps off of its six-story spinning ride Tomb Raider: Firefall in the Congo section, which brought another Paramount movie theme to the park.