GREAT WOLF LODGE WATER PARK ILLINOIS WINDOWS

“It’s not a mall food court,” Lasecki said. Great Wolf also is trying to tap into the food hall zeitgeist with a multi-restaurant, open-seating dining area anchored by four diverse eateries. “We introduced it in Colorado Springs, and it’s been doing phenomenal,” Lasecki said. The company is looking to up its culinary game on a couple of fronts, including the addition of a new farm-to-fork restaurant, Barnwood, which will serve locally sourced small plates and craft cocktails and - unlike the water park itself - be open to nonresort customers. The so-called “dry play” attractions will be clustered together in an adventure park area with mini-bowling lanes, a nine-hole miniature golf course, a live-action adventure game called MagiQuest, a kids spa and an arcade, among other things. “We’ll be able to bring the characters to life in a way we couldn’t do before,” Lasecki said. The new show will take place inside a giant, wood-carved picture frame and uses projection mapping technology on a multi-plane surface for a more dramatic effect. “It’s going to look like an entirely new property.”īehind the stone fireplace will be the setting for a souped-up version of a Great Wolf fan favorite, “The Forest Friends Show,” where animatronic animal characters entertain the kids three times a day. “When you enter, you’re really immersing yourself into that Northwoods feel our guests love,” Heezen said.

GREAT WOLF LODGE WATER PARK ILLINOIS WINDOWS

Tamer options will be available for younger kids, too, in keeping with the company’s target audience of toddlers to early teens.Īrtist renderings of the future resort show the colorful indoor water park showcased behind a wall of windows in the cavernous lobby, where a tall, stone fireplace serves as a rustic centerpiece. The new aquatic playground will be 20,000 square feet larger and tricked out with a lazy river and a dozen slides, including the resort company’s signature Alberta Falls, a speedy ride with high banking turns and steep pitches, and Coyote Canyon, a tube slide that funnels passengers into a spinning vortex. The Gurnee property marks the 17 th indoor water park resort for the company, which recently relocated its headquarters from Madison, Wis., to Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Great Wolf got its start 20 years ago in Wisconsin Dells and has been growing at an impressive clip. “When the weather is nice in the Midwest, people want to be outside, and the outdoor pool is definitely something guests said they wanted,” Great Wolf spokesman Jason Lasecki said. The $60 million-plus project calls for transforming the tropical-themed KeyLime Cove indoor water park resort into the Northwoods-style Great Wolf Lodge Illinois, featuring an expanded, 80,000-square-foot indoor water park with a wave pool, 50 percent more slides than its predecessor, a new outdoor pool and “several” water attractions still in development. Great Wolf Resorts on Wednesday revealed new details and the first renderings of its water park lodge opening next year near Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. Capital Gazette eNewspaper Home Page Close Menu

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