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Lake Lynn is a man-made lake in Raleigh, North Carolina. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The lake was created for flood control purposes in 1976 by damming Hare Snipe Creek , a tributary of Crabtree Creek . The lake has an area of 55.7 acres (22.5 ha) and lies entirely within the city of Raleigh's 75-acre (30 ha) Lake Lynn Park.
In 2008, Cedar Fair added a 600,000-US-gallon (2,300 m 3) wave pool, Bondi Beach, increasing the total size of the water park to 20 acres (81,000 m 2). [2] As part of the multi-year expansion at Carowinds , Boomerang Bay added Surfer's Swell and Dorsal Fin Drop for the 2014 season.
Included in the price of admission to Carowinds is access to the 27-acre Carolina Harbor water park. Based on a Coastal Carolinian theme, it features 15 rides and attractions. It originally opened as Ocean Island in 1982, the water park has also been known as Riptide Reef (1989–1997) WaterWorks (1997–2006), and Boomerang Bay (2007–2015).
The Roanoke Park Historic District a national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It is one of the city's historic Five Points neighborhoods and encompasses 446 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. It is situated southeast of the Five Points intersection of Glenwood Avenue and Fairview and Whitaker Mill Roads.
Pullen Park is a 66.4-acre (0.27 km 2) [2] public park immediately west of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It is located on Ashe Avenue and is adjacent to the Main and Centennial campuses of North Carolina State University , covering an area between Western Boulevard and historic Hillsborough Street . [ 1 ]
The area was originally named in 1852 after Jeremiah Morris. Morris donated land to the North Carolina Railroad for a depot, water tower, and other buildings. The town continued to grow as a result of the rail line and its location at the intersection of roads leading to Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Hillsborough.
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Falls Lake State Recreation Area is a North Carolina state park in Durham and Wake counties, North Carolina in the United States. Near Wake Forest, North Carolina, it covers 5,035 acres (20.38 km 2) [1] along the shores of 12,410-acre (50.2 km 2) Falls Lake.