{"id":281460,"date":"2026-09-08T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281460\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:38:13","slug":"until-next-year-guests-enjoy-final-day-of-waldameer-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281460\/","title":{"rendered":"Until next year: guests enjoy final day of Waldameer season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular local amusement park is closing their doors for the season. <\/p>\n<p>Monday was the last day of the season for Waldameer Park and Water World.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/waldameer-celebrates-one-century-of-the-tilt-a-whirl\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tWaldameer celebrates one century of the Tilt-a-Whirl\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This summer, the park went through a lot of construction, including the completion of the new lazy river called the Winding Waters in Water World.<\/p>\n<p>President Steve Gorman said this year was up and down like a roller coaster, but they\u2019re ending on three beautiful days.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/waldameer-park-announces-eagles-pursuit-rollercoaster-for-2027\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tWaldameer Park announces \u2018Eagle\u2019s Pursuit\u2019 rollercoaster for 2027\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet. We know what we\u2019re doing now and we know how to operate the park and everything is flowing, but school starts and we have very little staff left. And it\u2019s sad because I like seeing all the people here having fun,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n<p>Gorman says in their off-season, crews will be building a new roller coaster that will open in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular local amusement park is closing their doors for the season. Monday was the last day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-281460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}