This weekend, I visited SCarowinds for the third consecutive year. Now in its 18th year, Carowinds‘ annual Halloween Haunt event has grown from a modest two haunted mazes and 60 monsters to a terrifying six mazes and six scare zones,...
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The Daytime Details of Halloween at Carowinds
Now entering its 18th year, SCarowinds is Carowinds’ Halloween Haunt event, and takes place on select weekend nights; Fridays and Saturdays in September and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October. We’ve visited SCarowinds at night the last two years (you can check...
Continue reading...Carowinds Adding Six New “Camp Snoopy” Attractions in 2018
Originally opened in 1975 as Hanna-Barbera land, Carowinds‘ children’s area has undergone several changes over the years, including a re-branding to Nickelodeon Universe in 2004, and another re-branding to its current theme, Planet Snoopy, in 2010. The area will be...
Continue reading...Why Dinosaurs Alive is Carowinds’ Most Underrated Attraction
I have been visiting Carowinds several times a year since moving to North Carolina in 2000. Especially in recent years, I’ve chronicled a lot of those visits here on Coaster101, talking about attractions like Carowinds’ world-class lineup of roller coasters,...
Continue reading...Cirque Imagine Returns to Carowinds!
Back in fall of 2015, Carowinds had a major announcement for Carolina Harbor and Plants vs. Zombies. Somewhat overshadowed by those two announcements was the announcement of a new show, Cirque Imagine, that would debut at the park in 2016....
Continue reading...Behind The Menu: Carowinds’ Chef Krzysztof Siuta
More and more, food is becoming a larger part of the overall theme park experience. From food festivals to “one-of-a-kind” menu items, you can rarely visit a park these days without taking part in some sort of culinary masterpiece. In...
Continue reading...A Theme Park Enthusiast’s First Trip To Carowinds
Here at Coaster101, we talk a lot about Carowinds a lot as part of their “Caroblogger” program. But would you believe that before the last weekend in April, six of the seven members of the Coaster101.com writing team had never been...
Continue reading...How to Eat Your Way Through Carowinds’ Taste of the Carolinas
Returning for the third consecutive year to Carowinds is their annual “Taste of the Carolinas” food festival. After sampling several dishes at last year’s festival, I knew for this year that I needed to call in some reinforcements if I wanted...
Continue reading...See You at the Fair: Inside Carowinds’ New “County Fair”
Back in February 2016, Brady MacDonald of the Los Angeles Times broke the news that Cedar Fair had acquired a number of vintage flat rides from parks around the world. After a series of entertaining teases as part of their...
Continue reading...Construction Update: Carowinds’ County Fair
Yesterday, Coaster101, along with several local area media and journalism students, were invited to take a hard hat tour of Carowinds‘ new County Fair area. A ton of progress has been made since we were at the park back in...
Continue reading...Carowinds Winter 2016 Construction Update
With the addition of the new County Fair area at Carowinds in 2017, it makes sense that there would be a lot of construction going on in the park during the winter off-season. But, there’s more going on at the...
Continue reading...A-Z Coaster of the Week: Fury 325
Welcome back to another addition of A-Z Coaster of the week, where we examine a coaster corresponding with each letter of the alphabet. This week, we’re headed to where the Carolinas come together, Carowinds, and taking a look at the...
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