HOLIDAY WORLD & Splashin’ Safari
Santa Claus, Indiana (Abbreviation: HW)
 Park News - (9/19/2026) Holiday World has announced the return of Happy Halloween Weekends, along with Dinosaurs. What? Yes… Dinosaurs have been delivered into the corn maze to create the Dino Corn Maze Adventure from Sept. 19 through to Nov. 1st.
(7/18/2026) Holiday World has expanded the park hours, allowing for some extra night ride fun on three date. Park hours will be extended to 10pm on July 18th (today), July 25th and August 1st. The Splashin’ Safari waterpark will also stay open until 7:30pm on those dates.
2027 - CANNONBALL! - (7/4/2026) Here's another fun look at Holiday World’s new for 2027 Cannonball! water coaster ride. This animated video focuses on the fun layout and gives us a look at all seven of the different themed boats: Strawberry, Doughnut (Pink w/ Sprinkles), Watermelon, Holiday World (Red, Blue and Yellow), Patriotic Popsicle (Red, White & Blue like a Bomb Pop), Stars & Stripes, and all Red & White Stripes. It also gives us a look, in animated form, at all the little nods to the theming of this ride as a community pool / Cannonball competition just waiting to happen
(7/1/2026) Holiday World has confirmed their plans for 2027 at long last. Meet “CANNONBALL!”, a new Mack Rides Water Coaster attraction themed to look like the Boulder Canyon Cannonball Competition community pool. Riders will climb into one of several 8-passenger themed boats and climb to a top of a coaster like lift hill before going on a wild steel roller coaster style layout that ends with a big splashdown in the pool at the bottom.
A fun early teaser release by the park mentioned that Holiday World had almost green lit another Mack Ricks water coaster attraction as a replacement for Pilgrim Plunge about a decade ago. So no good idea goes away forever… and they were able to revive the concept now as a replacement for the park’s removed river rapids ride instead.
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