CAROWINDS
Charlotte, NC
Six Flags Entertainment
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(10/18/2025) New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts
(8/19/2025) WinterFest Will Return to Carowinds, but with Some Changes
(8/15/2025) Six Flags New Trademark Could Be For Carowinds
(6/4/2025) Something To Know About Rider Restrictions on Snoopy's Racing Railway
(5/24/2025) WatchSnoopy's Racing Railway Coaster POV
Park News - (8/19/2025) The good news for Carowinds fans is that WinterFest is still happening at the park this year. In a time where Winter events have been cut from several other parks in the chain, this alone is something to be thankful for. However, there is a change to be aware of. According to AttractionsMagazine, WinterFest operations will see the park mostly open for daylight hours, with most WinterFest days running from 11am to 7pm. This is in stark contrast to previous years where WinterFest would often run as an evening only event, from 5pm to 10pm.
We don’t know what attractions are going to be open for WinterFest this year yet, though it would seem that a shift to include more daytime hours would also allow for more park rides to be up and running during the event.
 2026????- Water Ride - Status Unknown - (11/217/2025) Other than land clearing and installing what seems to be new storm water drainage infrastructure, there really has been little or no progress on actually building a new attraction for 2026 at this point, so the project may have been pushed back.
(2/24/2025) So how would you feel if Carowinds added a flume ride very similar in design to the one in the post embedded below? The rumored 2026 attraction that will be placed over the park’s former river rapids ride is rumored to feature both forwards and backwards drops, but somehow the basic open steel and concrete flume design is just leaving me cold. If Carowinds were to add a new flume ride, i’d love for them to actually enclose parts of it inside some kind of fake mountain structure, or within a dark-ride show-building, and build something more akin to the Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knott’s Berry Farm.
(11/14/2024) A press release from Six Flags today confirmed that the company is planning to spend over $1 BILLION on the parks over the next two years. Some of this will come in the form of enhancements to the guest experience, such as new themed areas, dining upgrades and technology enhancements. While we’ve seen the 2025 capital projects ($500 million) already announced, they decided to post a list of teasers of what they are already confirming will come to some of the parks in 2026 as part of another $525 million capital investment plan.
Carowinds made it onto the list, where they promise that the park will receive a “record-breaking water ride” in 2026. This is especially important for Carowinds, as it is one of the only parks in the nation that no longer has even a single water ride left in their arsenal after the retirement of the three they had over the past 15 years, starting with the Powder Keg log flume in 2009.
I’m not sure where this will go, but I’ve got a feeling it could either be placed in the former river rapids location, or quite possibly down in the area currently occupied by Hurler, Drop Tower and Carolina Cyclone. I’ve heard some reports as of late about survey markings being spotted all over that section of the park, which possibly indicate that something big may be in the works and that those older attractions might find themselves on the chopping block between now and 2025.
As for some ideas about what the ride could be, Six Flags did ask a few questions about possible Flume and Water Coaster ride concepts in Spring 2024, which you can re-read below.
???? - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts - (10/18/2025) Six Flags has begun sending out surveys to select guests to get feedback about possible future addition concepts that may be in the works. Keep in mind that not every concept they pitch for any given park may actually be intended for that particular park, as sometimes the chains will pitch ride concepts to other markets as well to gain some broader feedback on certain concepts. With that said… let’s dig into what is currently being pitched for the various parks.
The guest survey for Carowinds is interesting, as it includes concepts such as a Zamperla Giga Discovery ride (a giant 172ft tall spinning pendulum rides) as well as what sounds like an S&S Screaming Swing. The rest of the survey is very coaster heavy, which shows that good things are likely coming to the Carolinas, with a proposal for a Dive Coaster, a Wing Coaster, a Family Thrill Launch Coaster and a proposal for a new “Launch Coaster” that seems to be more like AlpenFury at Canada’s Wonderland. So a long kick-butt high-inversion count launched coaster for Carowinds would be a winner in my book.
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