Unforgettable adventures await at Kings Dominion, home to some of the best things to do around Richmond, Virginia. New in is Jungle X-pedition , an immersive x-perience x-ploring an ancient jungle civilization. Soak up the sun at Soak City, our acre waterpark included with admission. Have a splashtastic blast with water slides, splash pads, a wave pool, a lazy river, cabanas, and more! Coconut Shores within Soak City offers a mini-wave pool, foot multi-level play structure, and unique dining.
Experience fun all season long with our world-class events. Celebrate cultures from across the world during our immersive international celebration, Grand Carnivale. Watch the park go from scary to merry as the park transforms into a winter wonderland full of enchantment and holiday cheer with millions of lights, festive shows, and more during WinterFest.
With over 60 rides shows and attractions, there is something for every member of the family! Our acre water park, Soak City, is included with your park admission and features more than 2 dozen slides, a massive wave pool, cabanas, and more. Thrills come in all sizes! From music festivals to seasonal celebrations, our special events calendar dishes out unique experiences and family activities all year.
Unlimited visits for the rest of including WinterFest and all of , free parking, exclusive discounts and more! Your ticket to a night of holiday FUN! Grab your WinterFest admission tickets, ice skating, cookie decorating and more!
Skate on one of the most picturesque ice skating venues as the International Street fountain is transformed into Snow Flake Lake. The Kings Dominion Pre-K Pass is back and grants free admission to children age three to five years for the rest of the season and all of ! We offer a wide array of group activities that can be tailored for your needs — plus employee offers on group ticket sales.
This larger-than life Christmas spectacular showcases dazzling lights, talented performers, and extravagantly decorated floats featuring Christmastime favorites. Plus, the Big Guy himself, Santa Claus, may join in on the merry procession. A fun new area opened this year with the addition of Wayne's World. The Hurler, the park's fourth wooden roller coaster, highlighted the new attractions in this area of Kings Dominion. Viacom purchases Paramount Communications.
Green slime was the rage of the summer for Kings Dominion's 20th anniversary season with the addition of Nickelodeon Splat City.
The Showplace re-opened as the Kingswood Amphitheatre. Kings Dominion introduces the world's first linear induction launch-style roller coaster with Outer Limits: Flight of Fear.
Riders on this unique attraction are sent roaring through a series of inversions in total darkness. Also new this year is Xtreme Skyflyer, an attraction that combines the elements of hang gliding and sky diving.
This all-new section features rides, shows and attractions specifically for kids. The world's fastest suspended roller coaster is unveiled this year at Kings Dominion with the introduction of Volcano, The Blast Coaster. The attraction is the park's second linear induction launch-style roller coaster, joining Flight of Fear.
Hurricane Reef is expanded from six acres to 19 and rebranded WaterWorks. The makeover includes the addition of more water activities for families. Kings Dominion celebrates its 25th anniversary season. This attraction features four new thrilling, enclosed water slides. This season saw the introduction of the world's first compressed air-launch roller coaster, HyperSonic XLC and began a new annual event celebrating Halloween called FearFest..
Also new this year is 7th Portal, an adventure-filled 3-D film. The park unveils its 12th roller coaster in Ricochet, which features a series of unexpected twists, turns and a foot drop. Also new this year is a popular family ride, Triple Spin. Guests plunge a staggering 27 stories from a height of feet at a speed of 72 miles per hour, providing them with a thrill they'll never forget. The multi-sensory ride appeals to park visitors and coaster enthusiasts alike with its thrills and special effects.
Thunder Raceway Go-Karts also debuts this year. An all-new Halloween event is introduced in the fall, Halloween Haunt. Kings Dominion added to its lineup of world-class thrills by introducing its 14th roller coaster this year, Dominator.
This scream machine sends rider through five inversions at speeds up to 67 milers per hour on the longest floorless roller coaster in the world at 4, feet. The ride also features one of the largest vertical loops in the world. The focus is on families this year with the addition of two new rides, El Dorado and the Americana Ferris Wheel. The Grizzly roller coaster was retracked this year, providing riders with a smoother, more enjoyable ride experience.
This year is one of the most exciting in the park's history. Intimidator , a Intamin Giga Coaster, is unveiled as the biggest and fastest roller coaster on the East Coast. Standing feet at its highest point, riders race down a foot first drop and through high-speed twists and turns at speeds over 90 miles per hour. A new night time light show highlights the new attractions this year, Snoopy's Starlight Spectacular.
Starring everyone's favorite PEANUTS characters and their summertime adventures, this colorful pageant of lights invites guests to explore a breathtaking display the entire family enjoys. Two new attractions debut this year. Riders soar 30 stories above the park on WindSeeker, a foot-tall tower swing ride. Visitors to the park are able to step back in time to periods between million and 65 million years ago in the all-new Dinosaurs Alive!
Also in , Kings Dominion has its largest entertainment line-up in years, with 7 new shows, including "All Wheel Sports" with bikers and skaters who were semifinalists on Season 7 of NBC's America's Got Talent, along with "On Broadway", a Broadway-style musical revue. Also new is "Dominion at Dusk" featuring Snoopy's Starlight Spectacular, a new live show and fireworks on all 10pm closes.
In , Kings Dominion began celebrating its 40th Anniversary with the return of some favorites from the past. We also introduced 2 new attractions. Hurricane Heights, a 65 ft. On May 3rd, Kings Dominion celebrated it OFFICIAL 40th Birthday with a huge party at the park that included a plaque dedication for the front gate, live entertainment in all areas of the park, special birthday prizes for guests and much more.
Search Search. Like its sister park, a foot Eiffel Tower replica at the end of a themed International Street entry midway would greet guests and make the park visible for miles around. At the tower, the midways would branch out into four well-spaced themed sections: the rustic Old Virginia, traditional Candy Apple Grove, animal park Lion Country Safari, and Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera for the little ones.
After soft opening several attractions while construction wrapped up in , Kings Dominion was officially opened for business on May 3, Patrons could enjoy fifteen rides the first year including the twin 3,foot wooden tracks of John Allen's Rebel Yell beside the acre man-made Lake Charles, S. Guests could also hop aboard a monorail to see wild African animals up close and personal, a railroad through the woods, take in the park from the Eiffel Tower's observation decks, ride cable cars, a log flume, antique cars, or one of seven flat rides.
Then, saw the coaster count grow to four when King Kobra was installed as one of Anton Schwarzkopf's original three weight-drop-launched shuttle-looping rides.
The same year, overnight stays were encouraged when the Kings Quarters hotel opened adjacent to the parking lot, and the next year held the same focus when the Kings Dominion Campground was completed.
Kings Dominion's skyline changed with the season's Lost World, a foot artificial mountain with a complex of four rides located in and around its base: the Land of the Dooz mine train, Voyage to Atlantis flume, and two flat rides. Just the next year, Voyage to Atlantis became the Haunted River, and a degree theater was opened in Wooden coaster fans were taken for a wild mile per hour ride in the woods beginning in with the debut of Grizzly.
Built by Kings Entertainment Company, now the owners of the park, the classic figure-eight layout began taking riders to foot heights and over 3, feet of track. Guests were taken for another new ride in the Old Virginia backwoods the following year on the river rapids experience White Water Canyon, while last rides were given on the Galaxie before it was dismantled.
For the season, visitors were given another method to cool off in the summer on the themed splashdown ride Diamond Falls. And thrillseekers really stood up and took notice in when the park erected on the former site of Galaxie the East Coast's first stand-up coaster - the Togo-designed single-looping Shockwave. However, Kings Dominion removed its other steel looper King Kobra later in the year.
As was common before the days of seperate waterparks, Kings Dominion added a water slide complex near the park entrance named Racing Rivers in Soon after, Avalanche became a third coaster for guests of all ages the next year, and one of the few bobsled-type rides in the world. In , the Sky Pilot took riders for a spin over Candy Apple Grove while allowing them to roll into inverted position at free will. Then, brought a revamping of the kids' area into Hanna-Barbera Land.
Major coaster action struck again on March 23, On King Kobra's old territory, a new coaster rose before diving under Lake Charles in the first ever underwater tunnel on a ride and looping through four inversions over the lake.
The serpent theme was carried over and the new Arrow Dynamics-crafted coaster was named Anaconda. Meanwhile, the other two-thirds of the lake had been reclaimed for a six-acre expansion bringing Kings Dominion its own waterpark, Hurricane Reef, the next year, complete with fifteen different slides.
A change of a different kind came in when Paramount purchased Kings Entertainment Company, and the park became known as Paramount's Kings Dominion. Now the theme park could begin incorporating movie and TV-related themes into the experience, and the first of those came that season with the conversion of the cinema to a motion simulator theater, and its first feature being Days of Thunder.
Later that year, Smurf Mountain closed. Another movie theme was introduced in when the small themed section Wayne's World opened containing the relocated Parrot Troopers flying scooters, renamed Scream Weaver; and Hurler, an International Coasters Incorporated triple-out and back woodie with statistics close to those of Grizzly.
With Hurler, the claim of the only park in the world with five wooden tracks was made possible.
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