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Creek Beach [225] (also known as Secret Creek Beach or Secret Harbor Creek Beach) [226] Black Sand Beach; Boaters Beach [225] Whale Beach 1 and 2 [225] Black Rock City, in the desert outside of Gerlach, hosts Burning Man where clothing is optional. Blue Moon Resort was a small resort hotel for gay men in Las Vegas. [227] [228]
The Beach at Adventure Landing was a 35-acre (140,000 m 2) water park located 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio. Previously known as The Beach Waterpark, it featured ten water attractions, several children's areas, sand volleyball and basketball courts, pool-side beverage service and other special events. [ 1 ]
Virginia Beach is a resort city, and the Oceanfront is a primary tourist attraction. The boardwalk, substantially updated in 1988, is a concrete path linking forty hotels and other attractions via pedestrian walkway and separated bike path [ 2 ] -- which in turn connects to nearby trails and surface streets.
Virginia Beach is host to a Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon each year on Labor Day weekend in conjunction with the American Music Festival. It is one of the largest Half Marathons in the world. The final 3 miles (4.8 km) are on the boardwalk. [138] Virginia Beach also hosts the Yuengling Shamrock Marathon, founded in 1973 with over 24,000 participants.
On June 17, 2007, a 5-year-old girl from Wakefield, Virginia, was found unresponsive in one of the pools inside the waterpark while visiting the resort for Father's Day weekend. She was pulled from the water and taken to the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk where she was pronounced dead after arrival.
In 2009, The Great Escape experimented with a late-season festival named "Holiday in the Park" to compensate the ecenomic slowdown of the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. It included live entertainment and holiday-themed shows, lights adorning the park and a sledding hill making it the winter equivalent of the Fright Fest autumn event.
Typhoon Lagoon at Walt Disney World is the most visited water park in North America, and the second most visited in the world. A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other barefoot ...
The Beach Waterpark may refer to: The Beach at Adventure Landing, a waterpark in Mason, Ohio. The Beach (waterpark), a closed waterpark in Albuquerque, New Mexico.