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Stone Mountain
Atlanta, GA
Managed by Herschend Family Entertainment
General News - (10/14/09) Stone Mountain will hold the 10th Annual Indian Festival and Pow Wow at the park on Nov. 5-8th. With over fifty tribes represented, guests experience hands-on demonstrations of fire making, basket weaving, hide tanning, weaponry making and cooking. Additionally, Native Americans from across the United States will gather to compete in dance and drum competitions.
(10/1/09) Stone Mountain will kick off their 7th annual Pumpkin Festival on weekends, Oct. 2 – 31st. Attractions for the event will include the Colleen & The Pesky Gnomes kids show, The Pumpkin Tumbler (an inflatable obstacle course) as well as the return of Journey To The Center of the Earth 4D Experience.
(9/29/09) Check out this interesting article about a particular law in place in GA that allows for just about anyone to carry a loaded firearm on their person around most of Stone Mountain.
(9/3/09) Stone Mountain will feature an extra long fireworks show this Labor Day holiday weekend (Sept 5-7) as well as free concerts. Details can be found at the official site. Following that the park will also have a Yellow Daisy Festival from Sept. 10-13th.
(2/23/09) Just a quick update, if you havn’t had a chance to visit Snow Mountain at Stone Mountain, then you’ve only got a new days left! Snow Mountain is set to end it’s run on Sunday, March 8th, but you can view the complete schedule here.
In April Stone Mountain will put on the Spring Fun Break event, a 9 day long kids festival that will also feature the exclusive launch of the new Journey to the Center of the Earth 4D adventure film, along with many other activities like the Sky Hike and the return of the famous Lasershow Spectacular.
(12/5/08) A live webcam has been set up at Stone Mountain to watch the snow machines start up the long process of making all the snow needed to transform the hillside into Snow Mountain, starting on December 31st.
2009 - Crossroads Improvements - (1/7/09) Stone Mountain has put up an add confirming that a new Journey To The Center of the Earth 4D film is coming for Spring 2009 in time for the Spring Fun Break promotion. Meanwhile Snow Mountain is now in full swing, if anyone goes by feel free to send in some pictures of it.
(7/1/08) According to the latest rumors 2009 may bring some new changes to Stone Mountain’s Crossroads area, including updates to some existing attractions.
 2010/2011/???? - Big Rock Water Park - Delayed or Canceled - (10/30/09) The latest rumor the drift down from the peak of Stone Mountain is that the Big Rock Waterpark project may have been cancelled entirely. As we’ve speculated, it does seem very likely that the Slick Rock Racer going into Dollywood actually came from Big Rock’s stockpile of delivered slide parts. According to other sources, many of the other HFE waterparks (White Water Branson & Wild Adventures) are also expecting to receiving a piece of the pie as well it seems, and anything they can’t use may be sold off.
Adding fuel to the fire, is this batch of n
ew pictures taken just two days ago showing off the slide pieces at the Big Rock staging site. Based on a quick comparison from these new pictures with the ones I took about 14 months ago, it does look like most of the yellow/orange/red and even green slide pieces are now gone, leaving mostly the light and dark blue slide pieces on site.
(10/28/09) While I haven’t heard anything official yet, a reader tells us that during their visit to Stone Mountain over the summer, the captain of the ferry boat mentioned during the tour that Big Rock Water Park was set to open in 2013. In the meantime, if anyone is in the area, swing by and take a picture of the slide pieces they’ve still got on site. I’ve heard rumored some of those may be headed out to become new attractions at other HFE parks.
(10/26/09) Anyone heard a peep about the status of the Big Rock Waterpark at Stone Mountain? It was already previously delayed from a 2009 to 2010 opening date, but I haven’t heard a peep about any construction at all this year, despite the fact that all the slide pieces were delivered to the site back in 2008. Rumor has it that the project may be delayed for at least another year… or two. Anyone know more?
(8/29/08) While driving through Stone Mountain a couple of weeks ago I came across the site for the new Big Rock Waterpark that was originally supposed to open in 2008 but has now been delayed until 2010. However the project was far enough along in the works for 2008 before being delayed due to the drought conditions that the park has taken delivery of all of their various new waterslide pieces. There are also a couple of older dark body slides already on the property that will be incorporated into the new waterpark as well from what I’ve heard. Enjoy the photos.
(6/28/08) According to the latest rumors, Stone Mountain’s Big Rock Water Park project has been bumped back another year, now putting the grand opening in 2010. The good news is that when it opens, apparently the park will be bigger than ever and ready to take on all competition in the region.
(10/23/07) Screamscape has heard that the planned 2008 opening of the new Big Rock Water Park at Stone Mountain has been delayed until Summer 2009 due to the extreme drought in Northern Georgia.
(10/1/07) While there wont be an indoor waterpark resort, the Stone Mountain website does confirm that a “new waterpark” is under construction and will open in Summer 2008 next to the Golf Course Clubhouse. A big announcement is expected in the near future. |
