Record attendance advances lazy river attraction on Water World's development plans

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After Dothan's Water World posted a record high attendance in 2022, city officials announced Tuesday that a long-awaited, multimillion-dollar lazy river will be the next attraction built at the park.

"As we continue to grow capacity and attendance, we need a place to put those people so they can have a positive experience," Alison Hall, the city's Leisure Services director, told the Dothan City Commission during its regular meeting."People have been asking for a lazy river for a long time so we feel that this is the next logical step."

The river will go around a hill on the 13-acre property and have an Adventure Playground with multiple levels and slides for kids. In total, the project will cost about $12 million and take 14 to 18 months to complete once construction begins, according to Hall. The construction timeline was not revealed during the meeting.

People are also reading… Water World hit record numbers in a variety of different areas last summer. For the third time in Water World's history, the park welcomed 82,570 visitors, averaging around 1,086 per day. There were seven days during the season when more than 2,000 people visited the park. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Season passes were a hot commodity with 3,519, totaling $181,035, sold to visitors coming from across Alabama, southwest Georgia and northwest Florida. The park also sold a record $63,000 worth of ice cream and was profitable for the second straight year, bringing in a profit of $256,000.

 

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