KENTUCKY KINGDOM
(Formerly known as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom)
Louisville, Kentucky
Joined Herschend Family Entertainment in 2021
Park News - (7/27/2024) Christmas at Kentucky Kingdom will take place this year from Nov. 29, 2024 through to Jan. 4, 2025. This year’s event will be “Longer, Brighter, and Jollier than EVER” featuring holiday displays with over one million lights, a 175ft long snow tubing hill, the Holly Jolly Junction (w/ Rudolph & Bumble) and of course, Santa’s Village.
 2025 - Discovery Meadow - (5/17/2025) Kentucky Kingdom opened their new Discovery Meadow land, which really marks the first large scale addition to the park under Herschend’s ownership of the park. The new look of things really shows off a lot of typical Herschend design-DNA, adding a lot of charm and cuteness to Kentucky Kingdom in a great way. Check out a short video looking through Discovery Meadow posted online.
(2/14/2025) Kentucky Kingdom has announced the name of the new themed land coming to the park for the 2025 season as “Discovery Meadow”. Check out the official preview of the land and attractions in the video below! They show off many of the new attractions like Cumberland Express, Redbird Racer and Scout’s Squirrel Race. Speaking of Scout, you’ll find this giant squirrel in the park as a new mascot to the land.
Meanwhile the park has also rethemed and renamed a number of attractions throughout this zone to tie into the new Discovery Meadow theme. To this end the former Roller Skater kiddie coaster will now be known as the Hollyhock and Roll. The park’s Thunder Run wooden coaster will has now been renamed as Woodland Run, and the RMC wild hybrid adventure of Storm Chaser has now been renamed as Wind Chaser.
Other rethemed rides include Treetop Drop (formerly FearFALL), Swing Fling (Flying Dutchman swings), Nature’s Bounty (Bluebeard’s Bounty swing ship), Dragonfly Drop (frog hopper), Honeybee Buzzers (flying scooters), Garden Carousel (Bella Musica), though Mile High Falls will remain as is.
(1/5/2025) Kentucky Kingdom has posted artwork of the three new rides coming in 2025. The new attractions will include a small train ride, a ride with inverted cars themed as cardinal birds and a small flat ride with a squirrel theme. The inverted vehicle artwork for the bird themed ride does remind me of the style cars used for a Zamperla Flying Tiger style ride, and the Squirrel ride appears to be a Zamperla Jump Around style flat ride.
(12/26/2024) Kentucky Kingdom has announced an $11 million expansion for the 2025 season that will include three new family friendly rides. Unfortunately, the park isn’t ready to announce the exact details of what these new rides are just yet, but they say they should be ready for guests to enjoy by May 2025.
The rest of the park will be getting some makeover work as well in the meantime, as apparently 10 other park rides will be getting themed to have a Kentucky twist.
According to the local news report, Kentucky Kingdom is also planning to add a 4,800 sqft playground space for the smaller children to enjoy. Based on some projects we’ve seen added to other Herschend Family Entertainment properties, this could include some fun and unique theming as well, which Herschend is known for with any of their additions at parks like Dollywood and Silver Dollar City.
2026 - New Pilot/Flight Themed Ride - (5/20/2025) From what I’m told the new 2026 teaser sign at Kentucky Kingdom is over in the section of the park near the Lightning Run roller coaster. Interestly enough, I’ve also been told that most of rides that used to be located in this section of the park have either been removed or moved elsewhere in the park, opening up space here for whatever may be coming here, near the front end of the park.
(5/18/2025) A teaser sign for something new in 2026 has been spotted inside Kentucky Kingdom. It has an an airplane theme, featuring an propeller along with the message to “Get Ready To Test Your Wings” - “Spring 2026 - Text “WINGS” to 502-206-8004 to follow along”.
Maybe it’s just me, but this simple teaser is giving me “Stunt Pilot” vibes… and by that, I’m talking about the Stunt Pilot roller coaster (an RMC Raptor) that opened at Silverwood in 2021. If anyone has forgotten, Kentucky Kingdom added the Kentucky Flyer (Gravity Group Family Wood Coaster) back in 2019 and was going to follow this up with an RMC Raptor coaster in 2021, butt when COVID struck in 2020, the park had to back out of the project and Silverwood in Idaho (a short drive from RMC HQ) stepped up to grab the coaster and make it their own as Stunt Pilot.
It would be interesting if Kentucky Kingdom were to perhaps be planning to revive those old plans, along with a similar theme as Stunt Pilot for 2026. Now that’s just speculation on my part, because for all we know this could be something simply like a Wave Swinger or a Sing Shot... at this point we just don’t know. Though, I wasn’t sure of the location in the park for the sign, so perhaps that might give us another clue. Can anyone tell us where this is?
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