Last year, the park said it would spend $25 million on new rides and improvements over the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
It's a little like Disney World, here at the entrance to Churchill Downs.
The new Good Gravy! coaster will be near the same location as the popular Raging Rapids water attraction that was retired earlier this year after nearly three decades.
Construction has already begun on the station and ride footers, and the track is scheduled to arrive in early November.
Kings Island is set to reopen to guests April 15.
Louisville's theme park is inviting member of the public to don their bathing suits and swimming trunks and head out to the water park this weekend.
This year, families can experience some new fun with a dog stunt show and an extended season.
The theme park, which is home to the Kentucky Rumbler and Air Race thrill rides, has also boosted its safety guidelines in response to COVID-19, by implementing new sanitizing measures and requiring masks worn inside the park.
The new location, which will cover 130,000 square feet, will allow for the expansion of existing features — the new Bounce Beach area will be nearly three times as big — and the addition of new ones, President Steve Hatton said.
A guest was crossing the rope-suspended bridge at the Anaheim park when he began to jump up and down on it to show his children the bridge would not break -- but it did.