All the way back in 1973, E. Pat Hall opened an amusement park that was situated on the border of North & South Carolina, eventually giving Carowinds the motto (quite literally) of “Where the Carolinas Come Together.” Holding the distinction...
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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...Food Festivals Flooding Cedar Fair Parks in 2017
Since introducing the Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival in 2014, Cedar Fair has steadily been adding more and more food festival type events to their parks. They’ve been doing Taste of the Carolinas at Carowinds since 2015, and last year...
Continue reading...Review: Carowinds’ Taste of the Carolinas
I did a lot of different things at Carowinds in 2015, but one of my major regrets from last year was missing the park’s inaugural “Taste of the Carolinas” Food Festival. After rave reviews from last year’s event, I knew that I wasn’t...
Continue reading...Carowinds Announces 2016 Event Schedule
When we told you about everything going on at Carowinds in 2015, there was obviously a lot to talk about. A new entrance plaza, of course Fury 325, and a brand new summer event schedule, with events including “Taste of the Carolinas”...
Continue reading...Carowinds Releases “Amazing” 2015 Event Schedule
We have been following a lot of the happenings at Carowinds for 2015 here at Coaster101. Not only is the park redoing their entire entrance and building the tallest, fastest and longest Giga Coaster in the world with Fury 325, but today,...
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