LAKE COMPOUNCE
Bristol, CT
Parques Reunidos / Palace Entertainment
 Park News - (12/1/2024) The “Holiday Lights” event at Lake Compounce began on Friday and features CT’s Tallest Christmas Tree, over 500,000 holiday lights and a chance to meet with Santa. Holiday Lights is Southern New England’s only theme park holiday event and will be held across 15 select dates this year.
Visit the park’s official website to learn more.
(Editor Note: There is one other winter-holiday park event at the small Edaville park in Carver, MA.)
(8/24/2024) Lake Compouce has announced the Phantom Fall Fest will return this year (weekends Sept. 21 to Oct 27) with some new scares. Enter the park for the day to enjoy the family friendly Trick-Or-Treating and stay late to enjoy the darker Halloween themed atmosphere after 6pm when the Phantom is unleashed.
New this year is “Bloodcraft” and “Malignant: Overgrown Evil” haunts as well as the “Hordes of Horrors” walking the streets, making no place safe from the creatures of the night. Also returning are two fan-favorites: “mAlice in Wonderland 3D” and “MediEvil”.
Visit the official website for all the details!
(8/18/2024) Lake Compounce is making a change starting September 21st. According to a release from the park, Lake Compounce will implement a new Chaperone Policy on that date, in order to allow the park to continue to commit “to maintaining a family friendly environment where our visitors can feel safe and welcome as they enjoy a day in our park.”
The new policy says that all guests age 17 or under must be accompanied by a chaperone who is at least 21 years old to enter the park at any time. Each designated chaperone may only be responsible for up to 4 guests, have a valid ID, and accompany their party during entry and throughout the day. Those under-age found without a chaperone will be ejected from the park.
Again, this policy will go into effect on September 21st, and applies to single-day ticket purchases as well as those with season passes who were not subject to the policy before. The policy will also be in effect for those visiting the park as part of larger private or company sponsored events.
In other Lake Compounce news, the park has annouinced that a new Drone Show will be taking place at the park on the Saturday and Sunday evening of Labor Day Weekend. Rides will close at 8pm and the Drone Show will begin shortly afterwards.
(1/22/2024) In a small update about the rumored loss of the 1911 Trolley from Lake Compounce, it was pointed out to me that the theme park does not actually down the Trolley car at all. When Kennywood announced they would revitalize the Lake Compounce theme park for the 1997 season, Kennywood struck a deal with the Shoreline Trolley Museum to restore and lease car 1414 to the park for the season to run on a section of track put into place at the park just for it, as the car was actually one that delivered guests to the park in the old days.
Due to the popularity of the Trolley that first year, the lease arrangement between the museum and the park was extended. So with that in mind, I would look for the Trolley to return to the museum.
(1/19/2024) We had heard before that most of the Palace Entertainment theme parks would be removing some older, troublesome, or costly to maintain attractions from their parks this season. According to a message sent out way the park has closed their vintage 1911 Trolley, the Bumper Cars and the Jolly Jester (kiddie pirate ship). Much like what we saw happen at Castle Park, the dedicated web pages for the attractions have been removed from the server.
While attractions like Bumper Cars are easy to replace as they come and go out of favor, the loss of the Trolley is sure to be a huge disappointment to many, as it was such a unique item. I’ve included a video of it below.
2024 - Wildcat Renovation - (9/10/2023) Lake Compounce has confirmed that The Gravity Group will be re-tracking the Wildcat roller coaster, which will reopen in 2024 featuring The Gravity Group’s new vertically oriented Engineered Precut Track system. They just completed a similar track replacement project on Oakwood’s Megafobia coaster in the UK to rave reviews.
Wildcat has been closed for the 2023 season due to issues with the ride, and after early season renovations on the park’s Boulder Dash coaster saw sections of GCI’s Titan Track added to Boulder Dash, there was rumored talks about re-tracking Wildcat with Titan Track as well for 2024. Apparently it is now clear that the park’s opted to go in a different direction with Wildcat and maintain the coaster’s standard wooden coaster status, rather than add sections of steel hybrid track.
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