Six Flags Great America has announced it's going to build a 13 acre, Caribbean themed Hurricane Harbor waterpark. The waterpark will open next spring, and be a seperate admission from the theme park, but guests will be able to purchase combo tickets to both the theme park and the waterpark.
Hurricane Harbor will include a 500,000-gallon wave pool; more than 25 speed, tube and mat slides; river rapids; family-sized raft rides; an erupting water volcano; a child-friendly play area; and the world's largest interactive waterplay structure featuring hundreds of water gadgets to keep guests soaked and busy.
The waterpark will be located at the northwest corner of the park, and built on land that was once the bus parking lot.
Six Flags has launched a website for Six Flag's Great America's waterpark, it includes a live webcam so you can watch construction coverage and all the details on the rides.
<a href="http://www.sixflags.com/parks/hurricaneharborchicago/index.html#" class="news" target="blank">Click here to go to Hurricane Harbor Website</a>
For complete Press Release, Images and Video of Hurricane Harbor.
<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/sixflags/20313/" class="news" target="blank">Click here to go to PRNewswire</a>
Read additional story's about the waterpark at:
<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-water16.html" class="news" target="blank">The Chicago Sun Times</a> and <a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/mchenry/main_story.asp?intID=38246161" class="news" target="blank">The Daily Herald</a>
<a href="http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/gu/09-16-04-383508.html" class="news" target="blank">The Gurnee Review</a> and <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/sep04/259242.asp" class="news" target="blank">JSOnline</a>
Last edited by CoasterDave316 on September 16th, 2004, 6:06 am, edited 7 times in total.
The webcam and construction log on the Hurricane Harbor website is awesome! Not only will it come in handy to see how construction is progressing but I can also find out how busy the park look's during Fright Fest!
After seeing the pictures and stuff im looking forward to see how it turns out.
The layout looks awesome. I like the webcam, something for me to look at everyday when I have nothing better to do. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I guess the camera isnt truely live all the time. Six Flags might turn the feed off at night to conserve bandwith. I guess that might explain why the camera is stuck at 4:22 of yesterday.
As Dave said, they need to put a 'This ride is temporarly closed..sorry for the inconvience' sign up before turning the camera off. I guess they could just aim it at DeJaVu.
Anyways, Dave is just forcing me to post this because he deleted my post at like 3 AM
I was just looking at the webcam which is now working again. And it looks like the whole overflow lot has been re-done this week as it looks pretty black.
In a article I just read in the Daily Southtown they said the new re-striping scheme of the parking lot will give them 500 new parking spaces.
Oohh Caribbean Theme, sounds cool. And of course, a slide called Riptide! . Although I do wish it was something other than Hurricane Harbor (I hate that name). Now lets hope they don't have to close Raging Bull and Viper .
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/hurricaneharborchicago/images/Birdseye.jpg
Atomic Coasters
(Hammerhead, Mako, Big White, Stingray)
Speed Slides
(Paradise Plunge, Riptide)
Guests board these high-energy, water adventures five stories above the ground and repeatedly switch from open to enclosed flumes at alternating high rates of speed or they can blast up and over hills on the high-speed body slides at speeds of 40 mph.
Please delete this, as what I suggested has been reversed.
(I said move all discussion into other topic. It was locked and all discussion was moved here.)
Last edited by SFGAm Rules on September 16th, 2004, 4:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Well when you look at the right side of the wave pool it looks like 2 slides that have a funnel shape. Are those 2 water slides those master flush kind?[/quote]
Were getting a Water Park! WERE GETTING A WATER PARK!!!!!
You can't fly with egales if you hang around with Turkeys
SFGA 11 wrote:I have one question: What are the Atmoic Coasters exactly? Are they Master Blasters?
Atomic coasters are probably the new porslide slide. The rocket slide, which launches rides up hill and down hill, kind of like a coaster.
Also in that site, they say there is four in the world to open for 2005, which are probably the four atomic coasters for SFGAm.