The previous few years have observed main enlargement for U.S. theme parks — and we aren’t simply speaking about curler coasters rising to record-breaking heights. Theme parks around the nation had been including new lands, rides and sights to make your visits much more amusing and thrilling.

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We discovered 11 new theme park rides and lands you will not wish to leave out this 12 months, now not together with any of the new sights coming to Disney Global in 2024. Whether or not you might be in search of kid-friendly rides or terrifyingly tall coasters, this is the whole lot new you’ll enjoy at U.S. theme parks across the nation this 12 months.

Penguin Trek — SeaWorld Orlando

With 8 curler coasters, SeaWorld Orlando is already house to extra coasters than another theme park in Orlando. Penguin Trek, the park’s latest journey, will convey that general to 9.

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Penguin Trek is a family-friendly release coaster that can ship riders on an icy rescue venture via Antarctica. The journey automobiles in this indoor-outdoor coaster are designed to appear to be snowmobiles. With a minimal top requirement of 42 inches and a best pace of best 43 mph, it is a coaster that households can revel in in combination.

On the finish of the journey, you’ll be able to go out into the park’s real-life penguin habitat, the place you’ll get an up-close take a look at the lovely animals you “stored” whilst for your Antarctic rescue venture.

Penguin Trek is scheduled to open someday in 2024.

Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Enjoy — SeaWorld San Diego

Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Enjoy shall be an interactive and academic appeal within the Ocean’s Discover house of SeaWorld San Diego. The showcase may have 3 themed galleries designed to make visitors really feel as though they’re immersed in a jellyfish’s mystical underwater international.

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Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Enjoy may have probably the most tallest jellyfish cylinders on this planet, together with an 18-foot-tall jellyfish habitat and a 10-foot-tall “dwelling arch” of jellyfish that visitors can stroll below. For an extra charge, you’ll improve your jellyfish enjoy to incorporate a behind-the-scenes excursion.

Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Enjoy is scheduled to open someday in 2024.

Catapult Falls — SeaWorld San Antonio

Catapult Falls would be the international’s first introduced flume coaster when it opens this 12 months. It’ll additionally cling the checklist for the sector’s steepest drop in a flume journey and North The us’s best flume coaster with a vertical raise.

Catapult Falls shall be a move between a curler coaster and a water flume journey, with an open-air elevator that can shipping your raft to the highest of a 55-foot-tall hill sooner than you return splashing down. SeaWorld San Antonio has now not but introduced a minimal top requirement for this appeal.

Catapult Falls is scheduled to open someday in 2024.

Sea Lifestyles Florida — Legoland Florida Hotel

Sea Lifestyles Florida shall be a family-friendly aquarium at Legoland Florida Hotel in Iciness Haven, Florida. Visitors will have the ability to follow marine lifestyles in a selection of immersive, interactive reveals.

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Merlin Entertainments, which operates Sea Lifestyles aquariums and Lego-themed parks and sights internationally, has now not but launched main points on precisely which animals or sights shall be integrated. If it operates in a similar way to different Sea Lifestyles aquariums, it’s most likely that access will both be integrated together with your Legoland admission or to be had as a mix price tag.

Sea Lifestyles Florida is scheduled to open in fall 2024.

Dino Valley — Legoland California Hotel

In honor of Legoland California Hotel‘s twenty fifth birthday, the Southern California theme park will open a dinosaur-filled land known as Dino Valley. The brand new land may have 3 rides, together with a Lego Duplo dinosaur safari, a river journey and an present journey known as Coastersaurus.

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Visitors too can play paleontologist within the interactive Dino Dig house and meet all-new Lego characters. Like several Legoland sights, those rides and stories are aimed toward children ages 2 via 12 and their households.

Dino Valley is scheduled to open in spring 2024.

Phoenix Emerging — Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

Busch Gardens already has a well-balanced mixture of thrill rides and those who attraction to households. Phoenix Emerging, the Tampa park’s latest appeal and tenth curler coaster, will toe the road between the 2. This suspended curler coaster will jump above the park at speeds of as much as 44 mph.

The peak requirement for Phoenix Emerging is a family-friendly 42 inches.

Phoenix Emerging is scheduled to open in spring 2024.

DreamWorks land — Common Orlando Hotel

Between subsequent 12 months’s Epic Universe unveiling and ultimate 12 months’s opening of Minion Land, Common Orlando discovered time to construct any other fully new DreamWorks land. This land shall be situated within Common Studios Florida and can themed to the numerous liked characters featured in DreamWorks Animation motion pictures like “Shrek,” “Trolls” and “Kung Fu Panda.”

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The land will substitute the KidZone house of the park, which featured sights like a Woody Woodpecker coaster for youngsters and a Curious George play house. Common hasn’t but launched main points on sights for the brand new land, however we all know there shall be rides, personality meet-and-greets and interactive play spaces aimed toward younger children.

Common’s DreamWorks-themed land is scheduled to open someday in 2024.

Camp Snoopy — Knott’s Berry Farm

Camp Snoopy opened at Knott’s Berry Farm in 1983 and has been a well-liked vacation spot for the park’s youngest guests ever since. This 12 months, Camp Snoopy is getting a significant makeover, together with new rides, new personality meet-and-greets, new leisure and an up to date eating location.

The reimagined Camp Snoopy may have a brand new relatives coaster known as Snoopy’s Tenderpaw Tornado Coaster and a Beagle Specific educate journey, amongst different sights. After all, favourite “Peanuts” characters like Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Pigpen, Sally and Marcie will meet visitors during the land all day lengthy.

Camp Snoopy is scheduled to open in summer time 2024.

The Dolly Parton Enjoy — Dollywood

You’ll in finding nods to Dolly Parton’s lifestyles and song far and wide the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennesee, however this 12 months, Dollywood will open an appeal that lays out each element of Parton’s inspiration, occupation and signature taste.

Housed throughout a couple of structures, the Dolly Parton Enjoy shall be an interactive, multisensory appeal that tells the tale of Parton’s lifestyles via her musical and charitable achievements, relatives keepsakes and extra.

The Dolly Parton Enjoy is scheduled to open someday in 2024.

Fireplace within the Hollow — Silver Greenback Town

Fireplace within the Hollow has been one of the crucial widespread — and distinctive — sights at Silver Greenback Town because the journey opened in 1972. It used to be one of the most international’s first indoor curler coasters and instructed a heart-pounding tale of a the city that used to be burnt to the bottom by way of vigilantes known as Baldknobbers and the volunteer firefighters (that is you) that stepped in to avoid wasting town.

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The journey closed on the finish of the park’s 2023 season to make room for an up to date model of Fireplace within the Hollow set to open in a newly built development within the Fireplace District phase of the park. The journey may have new and progressed variations of well known display scenes and characters (together with the ones large, dangerous Baldknobbers), in conjunction with an up to date journey enjoy and particular results that can maintain what makes this appeal so particular whilst bettering the journey total.

Fireplace within the Hollow is scheduled to open in spring 2024.

Excellent Gravy — Vacation Global

Driving in a gravy boat previous an enormous rolling pin and thru a can of cranberry sauce might sound like a dream you had after wolfing down a large Thanksgiving dinner and mendacity again on your grandpa’s recliner, however we will be able to guarantee you this can be a very genuine curler coaster known as Excellent Gravy at Vacation Global in Santa Claus, Indiana.

Each and every land at Vacation Global is themed to another vacation, and Excellent Gravy shall be within the Thanksgiving phase of the park. Excellent Gravy would be the park’s first relatives coaster, with a minimal top requirement of 38 inches and a best pace of 37 mph.

Excellent Gravy is scheduled to open in Would possibly 2024.