Four years ago, Carowinds debuted Fury 325, then the world’s tallest and fastest giga coaster. Later that season in August, Carowinds made a “big splash” with the announcement of the all new Carolina Harbor water park, coming to the park during the following summer. Fast forward to 2019. Carowinds has unveiled the park’s next roller coaster, Copperhead Strike, the Carolinas’ first double launch coaster, and in keeping with past trends, next season will see a new experience coming to Carolina Harbor: Boogie Board Racer.
Boogie Board Racer, the longest mat racing slide in the Southeast, will debut next summer at Carolina Harbor water park inside of Carowinds. On Boogie Board Racer, guests will ascend to nearly 60 feet, grab a mat, and choose one of multi-colored six lanes where they’ll wait for the green light to begin an exhilarating, competitive ride. Racers will zoom through tubes, high-speed chutes and a thrilling 360-degree horizontal loop. A final drop brings guests to maximum acceleration before they reach the finish line to splashdown.
Boogie Board Racer is the first new attraction in Carolina Harbor since the water park was expanded and rebranded during the 2015-2016 offseason. The brightly colored slide will be located near the park’s newest roller coaster, Copperhead Strike. The slide was custom designed for Carowinds by White Water West, a Vancouver-based world leader in water park attraction design. White Water West also designed another one of Carowinds’ most recent water slides, Blackbeard’s Revenge.
While Boogie Board Racer will Carowinds’ newest thrilling attraction, it’s not the only new experience coming to the park next season. Also new in 2020 for Carowinds, and expanding from its four-park run in the Cedar Fair chain earlier this summer, is Grand Carnivale, a nighttime international festival and street party celebrating global culture in grand scale, with signature beverages and a special menu.
Like Grand Carnivale at other Cedar Fair parks, The Spectacle of Color parade will be a highlight of the Carowinds festival, with extravagantly decorated and brightly lit floats,and lavishly costumed street performers who will draw guests into the action, tossing beads as they travel through the park to the beat of lively music. Having experienced Grand Carnivale at Kings Dominion earlier in 2019, I can safely say that Carowinds guests will be in for a treat. The food is great and the entertainment is even better.
Grand Carnivale will run nightly at Carowinds from June 13-July 5, 2020.
Carowinds’ Vice President and General Manager, Pat Jones, could not be more excited for the new additions.
“The new Boogie Board Racer water slide will amp up the adrenaline in our world-class Carolina Harbor waterpark and our guests will crave its exciting twists and turns as they compete against friends in this fan-favorite racing attraction,” said Jones. “And we’re going all outwith Grand Carnivale, the largest summertime event ever held at Carowinds. We’ve seen how families enjoy our fully immersive SCarowinds and WinterFest events in fall and winter, and we’re bringing that same sense of wonder and delight to this captivating new summer nighttime experience. These investments, along with the new Springhill Suites by Marriott at Carowinds which opens this fall, further strengthen our position as the premier entertainment destination in the Carolinas.”
For more information about what’s coming to Carowinds in 2020, be sure to visit the park’s website, and follow them on social media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
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