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WALDAMEER PARK
Erie, Pennsylvania
Park News -
 2027 - Eagle’s Pursuit - (6/10/2026) Waldameer, the family-owned park in Erie, PA is making major moves! Waldameer has officially announced Eagle’s Pursuit is coming for the 2027 season. The new attraction will be a family launch coaster from Vekoma situated on the hillside overlooking Lake Erie. The ride stats look like a perfect fit for the park's lineup, with two launches, a 60-foot elevation change, and nearly 1,900 feet of twisting track.
It is nice to see that smaller regional parks are able to be creative with their future plans, especially when faced with competition from major chains like Six Flags.
2027 - Winding Waters and More - (8/27/2026) A reader dropped by Waldameer Park earlier today and sent in a few pictures of the park’s new Winding Waters lazy river. While the park opened their new waterslides for 2026, Presque Isle Plunge and Big Water Bend, it appears they were never able to finish the Winding Waters river in time for the summer season. They’ve still got a couple more days to open it, and while the river itself looks ready, and landscaping all around it is still just raw dirt, so I don’t know if they will bother.
One interesting item however, if you look in the background of some of the photos you can clearly see footers have been poured in those dirt areas for something else that has not been built that will sit right next to the new 2026 slides. There also seems to be an unfinished second staircase built right next to the splash-down pool for the green slide as well, so we can only assume that whatever it is, it will be mounted to launch off the same tower structure.
So far the only project announced for 2027 is the Eagle’s Pursuit roller coaster, but it does look like something may be planned for WaterWorld as well, along with the full opening of Winding Waters.
Fortunately, I was looking back on concept art from the park and some of the the 2026 concept art showing off the new waterslides actually does include a “transparent” pair of racing/dueling ghost slides that were planned to be added on at some point in the future. So while they may be putting in some of the basic hardware like the stairs and footers for these future slides now, these could be for 2027, or perhaps even 2028, as clearly the best time to do this work so close to the new lazy river would be get the ground work done before it opens.
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Future Expansion - (1/31/2024) Back in May of 2023 it was announced that owner of Waldameer Park had purchased 27.5 acres to the south of the park, which included the nearby Village Mobile Home property. At the time they had not announced what their intention was for the property, and that at that time they were not seeking to remove the residents… yet.
According to the latest update posted at GoErie this week, Waldameer Park has confirmed that they will be closing the mobile home park. Notices were given to the approximately 50 occupied units in the Village Mobile Home park that they have until October 31st, 2024 to vacate the property. The exact plans for the property have not been set, though they did confirm some open land will be used for guest parking this summer, and they are working on plans to add new attractions at the park over the next two seasons.
(5/8/2023) Is Waldameer Park making plans for a large expansion? According to a local news report the owner of Waldameer Park has now purchased the Village Mobile Home property located just south of the theme park property. The deal was done through another company he owns named Meer Village LLC.
According to the report, the land deal was for a purchase of 27.5 acres of property in total, which includes the mobile home park. At this time they don’t plan on closing the park or removing the residents yet, though I would expect that it is only a matter of time as it would be difficult for the land-locked theme park to expand without making a land purchase like this.
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