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In May 2024, Bowlero purchased the Raging Waves Waterpark in Yorkville, Illinois for $49 million. [ 37 ] On December 2, 2024, Bowlero Corporation announced that it would rebrand as the Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation effective December 12, 2024.
Raging Waves waterpark, the self-proclaimed largest waterpark in Illinois, [21] is in Yorkville. It opened in 2008 and owns about 45 acres (18 ha) of property. [22] The Marge Cline Whitewater Park (on the Fox River) opened in 2010. [23] [24] It is the only whitewater park of its kind in Illinois, similar to East Race in South Bend
Raging Waves Waterpark (2024-present) [15] Former properties. Full Ownership. Clementon Park (2011-2021); Sold at auction on March 23, 2021 to Indiana Beach Holdings ...
Ocean Oasis Water Park and Beach Club, Wildwood; OC Waterpark, Ocean City; Raging Waters Water Park, Wildwood; Runaway Rapids Waterpark, Keansburg; Big Kahuna's, West Berlin(Formerly Sahara Sam's) Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Jackson; SplashPlex, East Hanover; Splash Zone Water Park, Wildwood; Thundering Surf Waterpark, Beach Haven; The Water ...
The new water park was expected to compete with others in Wisconsin Dells and the Chicago metropolitan area, [13] [14] and would be the biggest expansion in Six Flags Great America history. [15] Construction on the US$42 million [16] water park began in November of that year, and the water park opened to the public on May 28, 2005.
On July 3, 2021, a raft on Raging River carrying six passengers overturned, sending four guests to a local hospital with severe injuries. One of the passengers, an 11-year-old boy, later died. The ride had been inspected the day before the incident and was found to be in normal working order. [ 11 ]
Only one Hurricane Harbor has closed. After Six Flags Worlds of Adventure was sold to Cedar Fair in 2004, the water park was renamed Hurricane Hannah's Waterpark. It was abandoned in 2006 and most of the attractions were relocated to a new waterpark on what used to be the marine life side of the park. [3]
The waves were created by agitators which pushed waves through the diving area and into a shallow area - where kids were bodysurfing little waves: "This is the new kind of swimming bath that is becoming the rage of Germany," one of the captions reads. "No more placid waters for bathers - the mechanism behind the netting keeps everything moving ...