Adventureland Resort
Altoona, Iowa
Owned by Herschend
 Park News - (3/302025) Adventureland has sent out information about a series of special events coming to the park this season. For starters, every Friday in June the park will host a “Bacon & Brews” event, that will feature live music and ‘good eats’ after 4pm on Fridays from June 6 to June 27th.
Furthermore, on Sunday, June 15th, the park will host their first “Father’s Day Flop” at the Adventure Bay waterpark, where guests can complete for “the red belly badge of honor” in a belly flop contest.
In August the park will team up with Fred Rogers Productions to host the first ever “Neighbor Days”, where families can meet and greet with the characters from their favorite PBS KIDS shows such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Donkey Hodie and Alma’s Way.
On August 15, 16 and 18th Adventureland will light up the night sky with a massive 3D drone show, featuring a fleet of 300 drones.
(3/30/2025) Screamscape mentioned it on the corporate news page, but not here, that earlier in March, the Palace Entertainment parks in the US owned by Parques Reunidos are to be sold to Herschend, the company behind park’s like Dollywood and Silver Dollar City.
(3/17/2025) According to a local news report the Adventureland Inn hotel is now officially closed to guests for good. Instead they report that the former hotel is being converted for use as employee housing over the season.
(1/20/2025) Adventureland has announced that the park will open for the 2025 season on May 17th, marking the start of the Iowa park’s 51st season. The Adventure Bay waterpark wont be ready to open until May 24th however, along with the new Hyperlight waterslide, created from the park’s former Typhoon waterslide experience.
(1/19/2024) I’m hearing that Adventureland (Palace Entertainment) appears to be removing about four older rides from the park before the start of the season. The list I’ve been sent includes the Galleon (Swing Ship), Clipper (Kiddie Swing Ship), Frog Hopper (S&S) and Runabouts (kiddie boats) all of which are said to have been removed from the park’s list of rides on the website.
2025 - Hyperlight - (12/1/2024) Adventureland will add Hyperlight to the Adventure Bay waterpark for 2025. Instead of an all new attraction, Hyperlight will be a revision to the park’s Typhoon water slide, adding in incredible lighting, sounds, lasers and hyped-up sensory dynamics to the slide experience.
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