Kentucky Kingdom

Kentucky Kingdom
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Location	Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Opened	May 23, 1987
Owner	Herschend Family Entertainment
Website	kentuckykingdom.com

Kentucky Kingdom, formerly known as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, is an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The 67-acre (27 ha) park includes a collection of amusement rides and the Hurricane Bay water park. Kentucky Kingdom is located at the intersection of Interstate 65 and Interstate 264, sharing a parking lot with the Kentucky Exposition Center.

In 1977, the Kentucky State Fair Board announced plans to build a theme park on the grounds of the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. The park's construction, overseen by Kentucky Entertainment Limited, began in 1986 and cost $12 million in total. Kentucky Kingdom opened to the public on May 23, 1987. The park went bankrupt after one season, and was reopened in 1990 by businessman Ed Hart. Due to the park's success, Kentucky Kingdom was sold to Six Flags in 1998 who operated the park until 2009. Five years after Kentucky Kingdom closed, Ed Hart reopened the park on May 24, 2014. Seven years after Kentucky Kingdom reopened, the park's operating rights were sold to Herschend Family Entertainment. Kentucky Kingdom is owned by the Kentucky State Fair Board, and operated by Herschend Family Entertainment.

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Present roller coasters (5)

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Thunder Run	Dinn Corporation	Wooden	1990	Operating
Roller Skater	Vekoma	Family	1994	Operating
Lightning Run	Chance Rides	Hyper	2014	Operating
Storm Chaser	Rocky Mountain Construction	Hybrid	2016	Operating
Kentucky Flyer	Gravity Group	Wooden	2019	Operating

Past roller coasters (7)

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Relocated
T3	Vekoma	SLC	1995	2023	TBA
Chang	Bolliger & Mabillard	Stand-Up	1997	2009	Six Flags Great Adventure
Greezed Lightnin'	Anton Schwarzkopf	Shuttle	2003	2009	N/A
Road Runner Express	Maurer Sohne	Wild Mouse	2000	2009	Six Flags New England
Twisted Twins	Custom Coasters International	Dueling	1998	2007	N/A
Starchaser	Schwarzkopf	Sit-Down	1987	1995	Great Escape
Vampire	Vekoma	Shuttle	1990	1999	Six Flags New England

External links

• Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay official website
• Kentucky Kingdom at Coasterpedia
• Kentucky Kingdom at Logopedia
• Kentucky Kingdom at the Roller Coaster DataBase
• Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom at the Six Flags Wiki
• Kentucky Kingdom at Wikipedia