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Park News - (3/28/2026) Silverwood Theme Park has now confirmed that the deal for the park to be purchased by Herschend is now complete. If you have passes to the park for the 2026 season, know that nothing will change. According to the official posting, “The 2026 season, which begins May 2, will offer the same beloved experiences guests know and expect, including Night of the Stars, Coaster Classic, and Scarywood.”
    While I’ve never had the chance to visit Silverwood itself, I have had a lot of experience with Herschend and how they run their other parks, so I can say with a fair bit of confidence that Silverwood is in very good hands, both now and into the future.
    The ONLY thing I do have to wonder about however, beyond 2026, is the fate of the park’s Scarywood halloween haunt event. Traditionally, long time Herschend parks have opted for a more family friendly, haunt-free, fall Pumpkin style festival event rather than a full scale theme park “haunt”. HOWEVER… Herschend did just purchase the former Palace Entertainment parks (the US division of Parque Reunidos) last year, and many of those parks, including Kennywood and Adventureland, featured well known annual haunt events which will still be taking place this fall, so as long as Silverwood’s Scarywood event is seen as a successful park endeavor, I’d expect it to continue.
 
    (11/14/2025) Huge news came out of Silverwood this week as the family owned park announced that they had just signed an exclusive deal for the park to be purchased by Herschend Family Entertainment.
    Herschend has been in the news quite a bit this year as the theme park company had purchased the collection of Palace Entertainment properties in March 2025, and over the summer they had also signed deals to sell-off the smaller Palace properties that did not really fit in with the rest of their business model. Herschend has been growing steadily for several years now prior to the Palace Entertainment deal, having acquired Kentucky Kingdom and the Vancover Aquarium in 2021 and prior to that they also acquired Wild Adventures in Georgia in 2007, as well as two more Aquariums in New Jersey and Kentucky the same year.
    The chain known best for their world class operations of Dollywood and Silver Dollar City would seem to be a perfect fit to continue to operate Idaho’s Silverwoood theme park into the future.

 

2026 - Nothing is known at this point in time...