Carolina Harbor is a

water park A water park (or waterpark, water world) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming, and other baref ...

Carowinds Carowinds is a amusement park located adjacent to Interstate 77 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The park straddles the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, with a portion of the park located in Fort Mill, South Carolina. However, it has an of ...

amusement park in

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...

. Included with the price of admission to Carowinds, the water park is owned and operated by

Cedar Fair Cedar Fair, L.P., formally Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, is a publicly traded master limited partnership headquartered at its Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. The company owns and operates eleven amusement parks, nine included-w ...

History

The water park originally opened as Ocean Island in 1982. In 1989, it was renamed to Riptide Reef. For the 1997 season,

Paramount Parks Paramount Parks was the operator of Paramount's Kings Island, Paramount's Kings Dominion, Paramount's Great America, Paramount's Carowinds, and Paramount Canada's Wonderland, which annually attracted about 13 million patrons. National Amuseme ...

invested $7 million in a expansion and renamed the park to WaterWorks. Another major expansion occurred in 2006 adding a new Australian theme and changing the name to Boomerang Bay, a name shared with several water parks at other Cedar Fair amusement parks. In 2008, Cedar Fair added a wave pool, Bondi Beach, increasing the total size of the water park to . As part of the multi-year expansion at

, Boomerang Bay added ''Surfer's Swell'' and ''Dorsal Fin Drop'' for the 2014 season. On August 27, 2015, Carowinds announced that Boomerang Bay would undergo a major expansion in 2016 and would be renamed Carolina Harbor. The expansion includes a new wave pool named ''Surf Club Harbor'', 2 children splash areas named ''Myrtle Turtle Beach'' and ''Kitty Hawk Cove'', a six-story, six-slide complex named ''Blackbeard's Revenge'', and a new play structure called ''Seaside Splashworks.'' On August 15, 2019, Carowinds announced “Boogie Board Racer”, the longest mat racing slide in the southeast. This attraction has 6 separate enclosed, and open to the sun slides.

List of attractions

Former attractions

References

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