Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
The current entrance to Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom with Talon's lift hill in the background
Location	Allentown, [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]
Coordinates	40°34′40.59″N 75°31′53.50″W
Website	Official website
Owner	Cedar Fair Entertainment Company
General Manager	Michael Fehnel
Opened	1884
Operating season	April through early November
Area	200 acres (0.81 km2)
Rides	59 total 8 roller coasters 18 water rides
Slogan	Thrills Connect

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park owned and operated by Cedar Fair and located in between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

History

Dorney Park traces its history to 1860, when Solomon Dorney built a trout hatchery and summer resort on his estate outside of Allentown. In 1870, Dorney decided to convert the estate into a public attraction. Initially, the facility featured games, playground-style rides, refreshment stands, picnic groves, a hotel, and a restaurant. By the 1880s, Dorney had added a small zoo, and gardens.

Halloween Haunt

Halloween Haunt is an annual event that is held from September to October. The park hires around 700 people for this event. It was originally introduced in 1998 as Halloweekends, but was rebranded Halloween Haunt in 2008.

Current attractions

Halloween Haunt currently features 10 attractions including seven mazes and three scare zones, as well as roaming Street Talent sliders and actors, and two live mainstage shows (Blood Drums and Overlord's Resurrection).

Attraction	Type	Opened	Location
Age of Darkness	Scare Zone	2011	Road Rally Midway
Urgent Scare (The Ward)	Maze	2016	Possessed Midway
Blackout	Maze	2014	Talon Midway
CarnEVIL	Scare Zone	2014	Hydra Plaza
Chamber Of Horrors: Wax Museum	Maze	2014	Funzone Arcade
Cornstalkers: Barn Bred & Blood Fed	Maze	2008 (Renovated in 2015)	Demon Drop Plaza
Blood on the Bayou	Maze	2016	Across from Cedar Creek Cannonball
Necropolis	Scare Zone	2018	Behind Revolution
Tourist Trap	Maze	2017	Food Fest Groves
Trick Or Treat - Lights Out	Maze	2015 (Lights Out new for 2018)	Steel Force Plaza

Attraction history

	Year	Attractions
1	2008	Returning attractions: Magical House on Kill Hill, Screamworks Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Doctor of Doom (received clown theme) New attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Headstone Hollow, Terror Square
2	2009	Returning attractions: Magical House on Kill Hill, Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Headstone Hollow Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Psycho Circus (renaming of Dr. Doom) New attractions: Pirate Passage, The Gauntlet, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap
3	2010	Returning attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Headstone Hollow, Pirate Passage, The Gauntlet, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap, Psycho Circus New attractions: Mansion House Hotel
4	2011	Returning attractions: Club Blood, Cornstalkers, Terror Square, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Backwoods, Death Trap, Psycho Circus New attractions: Cut Throat Island, Age of Darkness, Grave Walkers
5	2012	Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Death Trap, Cut Throat Island, Age of Darkness, Grave Walkers, Psycho Circus New attractions: Desolation, Blood Shed, Head Hunters
6	2013	Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Blood Shed, Cut Throat Island, Grave Walkers, Psycho Circus Upgraded/Renovated attractions: Age of Darkness (expanded into Death Trap's attraction area and received new props), Head Hunters (received expansive new set pieces)
7	2014	Returning attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Blood Shed, Grave Walkers, Age of Darkness, Head Hunters Relocated Attractions: Cut Throat Island (Relocated from Hydra Plaza to White Water Landing Midway) New attractions: Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (Fright Lane only) Discontinued Attractions: Psycho Circus
8	2015	Returning Attractions: Mansion House Hotel, The Asylum, Desolation, Grave Walkers, Age of Darkness (slight expansion to create a Skeleton Key room), Cut Throat Island, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (Fright Lane only) Upgraded/Renovated Attractions: Cornstalkers: Barn Bred and Blood Fed (Relocated from Wildwater Kingdom to the Demon Drop plaza, combined with Blood Shed, given a new Skeleton Key room, and renamed) New Attractions: Trick or Treat (located in the Steel Force Plaza) Discontinued Attractions: Head Hunters, Blood Shed
9	2016	Returning Attractions: Cornstalkers, Mansion House Hotel (new Skeleton Key Room), Grave Walkers, Trick or Treat, Age of Darkness, Cut Throat Island (added Skeleton Key Room), Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, CarnEVIL, Blackout (No longer Fright Lane only) New Attractions: Blood on the Bayou, The Ward (later renamed Urgent Scare) Discontinued Attractions: Desolation, The Asylum
10	2017	Returning Attractions: Age of Darkness, Blackout, Blood on the Bayou, Grave Walkers, Trick or Treat, Cut Throat Island, Cornstalkers, Urgent Scare, CarnEvil, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum New Attractions: Tourist Trap Discontinued Attractions: Mansion House Hotel
11	2018	Returning Attractions: Age of Darkness, Blackout, Blood on the Bayou, Trick or Treat (new "Lights Out" theme), Cornstalkers, Urgent Scare, CarnEvil, Chamber of Horrors Wax Museum, Tourist Trap New Attractions: Necropolis (Grave Walkers replacement/ upgrade) Discontinued Attractions: Grave Walkers, Cut Throat Island