HERSHEY, Pa.-
Hersheypark will add the $19.7 million Boardwalk at Hershey attraction for 2007, with its opening scheduled for memorial Day Weekend.
The opening will be part of a centennial celebration at the park that will include new shows, fireworks displays, beach parties and promotions throughout the 2007 season.
Boardwalk at Hershey, under construction near Midway America, will include five water attractions, 11 food outlets, six games, seven stores, shade areas, hundreds of lounge chairs, two changing rooms with lockers and showers, and a building for guest services and first aid.
The centerpiece will be the East Coast Waterworks attraction, with 225 feet of bridges, seven slides, two crawl tunnels and 200 water toys such as sprays and dump buckets.
"Through guest surveys, we kept hearing water, water, water, and we were looking for just the right combination of attractions," said Frank O'Connell, Hersheypark's general manager.
