Kings Dominion is canceling its December season, WinterFest. It is the latest change for the Hanover County amusement park since its parent company merged with Six Flags last summer.
“Unfortunately, WinterFest is not part of the 2025 season schedule,” said Geoff Zindren, a spokesperson for the park. “We made the strategic decision to focus on delivering exceptional experiences during our core operating seasons, spring through fall.”
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Kings Dominion has announced that WinterFest will not be a part of their 2025 season schedule.
Since 2018, Kings Dominion has kept a portion of the park open during December, draped the Eiffel Tower with Christmas lights and offered ice skating on the park’s large fountain. Busch Gardens Williamsburg has operated a December season called Christmas Town since 2009.
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In 2023, Kings Dominion experimented with a year-round operating schedule, in which the park was open on weekends during every month of the year. But the park did not continue the expanded schedule in 2024 and waited until the spring to open its doors.
The park will continue operating its fall events: Tricks and Treats, Oktoberfest and Halloween Haunt. With warm weather extending through October, Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens have welcomed large crowds during the fall season.
This spring, Kings Dominion will open to the general public March 29 to start its 50th season. In addition to a new winged roller coaster called Rapterra, the park is debuting two new live shows and new music for its singing mushrooms. It is bringing back its clown band, which roams the walkways playing music.
Kings Dominion also is adding new parties, including a celebration that moves around the park with music and dancing and a nighttime party on International Street. New merchandise and new food and beverage items also will be available.
There have been other changes at Kings Dominion since its parent company merged with Six Flags. It has closed two of its longtime rides, Anaconda and Berserker, and laid off a portion of its workforce.
Kings Dominion from the archives
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In April 1974, the Lion Country Safari opened as the first part of the Kings Dominion amusement complex near Doswell. The next year, the park installed a monorail that guests used instead of driving their cars among the several hundred animals, which included lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes and other jungle dwellers. Here, the first visitors paid their admission fee. From left are driver Ken Lion, Lora Becraft and Larry and Mary Tropea.
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In April 1974, the Lion Country Safari drive-thru animal park at Kings Dominion in Doswell was ready to open, featuring several hundred animals – antelope, elephants, lions, rhinos, giraffes and more. The Eiffel Tower at the amusement park, which would open the following year, is in the background.
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The Avalanche Bobsled, a new ride at Kings Dominion that resembles a bobsled run, won favorable reviews from those who ought to know - roller coaster buffs and the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team.
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'The Lost World' manmade mountain hold three fantasy-adventure rides. The complex cost $7 million to construct and can accommodate 6,800 persons an hour.
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Doswell's Dominion - Kings Dominion and other theme marks seem to be gaining in popularity. (from 1-19-1992 story)
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In September 1976, a camera crew set up by the log flume at Kings Dominion in Doswell as filming continued on “Rollercoaster.” The movie, starring George Segal (in boat) as a ride inspector, was filmed at several amusement parks and is about an extortionist who demands $1 million to end his bombing campaign at parks. Extras and crew assembled at 7 a.m., but it was 2:15 p.m. before everything was ready so this scene could be shot.
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'Time Shaft' floor drops out. Centrifugal force holds passengers against wall.
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In June 1975, the band Ice Water performed in the Flintstone Follies Theater at Kings Dominion in Doswell. The theme park fully opened the previous month with 15 attractions; its Lion Country Safari area had opened in 1974. Today, the park offers more than 60 rides, shows and attractions as well as a water park.
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In October 1980, Blevins Gibbs (front), Henry McClellan and Larry Daylight, all Native Americans from Oklahoma, visited the Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The show, based out of California, traveled the world and featured as many as 80 performers, though only 11 were at the local stop. Its focus was on entertainment, but it also aimed for authenticity and education.
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In late April 1975, landscape workers prepared gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Dominion in Doswell. The theme park opened days later on May 3.
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Curtis Peatross tells visitor how to operate tape player. Recorded message identified animals in various areas of preserve. Lion Country Safari.
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Drawing a crowd - a 17-story man-made mountain, housing three rides, opened yesterday at Kings Dominion theme park on Interstate 95. STart-up problems plagued two of the rides, but many fun-seekers were willing to wait for two hours in line to try out the Time Shaft.
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Lion Country theater, monorail station & monorail cars coming in from Lion Country.
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A little bundle of love. A 40- to 60-pound hippopotamus was born at Lion Country Safari in Hanover County Thursday evening. Both mother and baby seem to be doing fine, said Larry Mather, zoological manager, though he added that the baby's chance of survival "is not 100 per cent. We'll know more in three or four days, when we'll have a better idea of how well the mother is taking care of it."
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Rangers manned a lookout tower at Kings Dominion Lion Country Safari Park, waiting for calls for assistance.
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From big eggs... This three-pound ostrich was born this week at King's Dominion near Ashland, but the only mother it knows for now is Ms. Loris Tauer, an animal management specialist at the amusement park. It is the first baby to be born from some 60 eggs that were laid in January. The egg was incubated for 40 days. This 10-inch ostrich will grow to 8 feet and weight more than 300 pounds when it reaches maturity in three to four years.
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Rangers manned a lookout tower at Kings Dominion Lion Country Safari Park, waiting for calls for assistance.
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Mike Gabay works as trainer with some of young pachyderms in 'Lion Country' elephant herd.
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Splashy Cole Porter 'Anything Goes' number is one of the features.
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Skeletal pirate captain. One of 60 in park's ride, Haunted River