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SILVERWOOD Athol, Idaho Herschend Family Entertainment
Park News - (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.