{"id":63396,"date":"2025-12-17T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:56:06","slug":"dorney-park-announces-2026-opening-days-for-roller-coasters-water-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63396\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorney Park announces 2026 opening days for roller coasters, water park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/10\/02\/halloween-haunt-dorney-park-top-10-usa-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween Haunt<\/a> just happened, but Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom has already begun planning for the new year with a 2026 opening day announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Dorney Park will reopen May 8 at 4000 Dorney Park Road in South Whitehall Township, a news release announced. Wildwater Kingdom will reopen May 23.<\/p>\n<p>Dorney Park features features rides such as the 2,000-foot-long\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/04\/17\/whats-it-like-to-ride-iron-menace-dorney-park-gives-previews-of-new-roller-coaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Menace<\/a> roller coaster, the century-old wooden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/06\/28\/dorney-parks-thunderhawk-is-100-years-old-heres-why-the-wooden-roller-coaster-still-thrills\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderhawk<\/a> roller coaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/demon-drop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demon Drop<\/a> and family-friendly rides such as the Snoopy-themed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/woodstock-express\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woodstock Express<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/cedar-creek-cannonball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Creek Cannonball<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/ferris-wheel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferris Wheel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wildwater Kingdom water park features the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/aqua-racer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aqua Racer<\/a> slide, the 65-foot-tall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/python-plummet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Python Plummet<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/lollipop-lagoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lollipop Lagoon<\/a> kids\u2019 area and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixflags.com\/dorneypark\/attractions\/wildwater-cove\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildwater Cove<\/a> wave pool.<\/p>\n<p>As featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/16\/lehigh-valley-gift-guide-heres-how-to-shop-local-for-everyone-on-your-holiday-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lehigh Valley gift guide<\/a>, the park offers 2026 passes such as for unlimited visits, free general parking and discounts for food, merchandise and bringing other guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It feels like Halloween Haunt just happened, but Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom has already begun planning for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1681,289,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-63396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-things-to-do","13":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396","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=63396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}