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 - (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.
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