Carolina Harbor

Carolina Harbor is a water park at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina. Included with the price of admission to Carowinds, the water park is owned and operated by Cedar Fair.HistoryThe water park originally opened as Ocean Island in 1982. In 1989, it was renamed to Riptide Reef. For the 1997 season, Paramount Parks invested $7 million in a 12acre expansion and renamed the park to WaterWorks. Another major expansion occurred in 2006 adding a new Australian theme and changing the name to Boomerang Bay, a name shared with several water parks at other Cedar Fair amusement parks. In 2008, Cedar Fair added a 600000gal wave pool, Bondi Beach, increasing the total size of the water park to 20acre. As part of the multi-year expansion at Carowinds, Boomerang Bay added Surfer's Swell and Dorsal Fin Drop for the 2014 season.On August 27, 2015, Carowinds announced that Boomerang Bay would undergo a major expansion in 2016 and would be renamed Carolina Harbor. The expansion includes a new wave pool named Surf Club Harbor, 2 kiddie splash areas named Myrtle Turtle Beach and Kitty Hawk Cove, a six story six-slide complex named Blackbeard's Revenge,and a new play structure called Seaside Splashworks.