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Interactive Timeline: Kentucky Kingdom Nears Reopening

By Joseph Lord
Published May 23, 2014 at 10:26 PM EDT
The front entrance to Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay waits to greet patrons after being closed since 2009. The parks are set to open on May 24.
Alix Mattingly
The front entrance to Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay waits to greet patrons after being closed since 2009. The parks are set to open on May 24.

Kentucky Kingdom opens  at 11 a.m. Saturday—it'll be the first time the public will be inside the amusement park since 2009.The amusement park's updates include a new rollercoaster and a doubling of the water park, Hurricane Bay.Since Six Flags left Louisville, the efforts to to reopen the amusement park on the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center grounds has sufferedits starts and goes.Here's a timeline of events that led to the reopening on Saturday:And Louisville Public Media's Alix Mattingly went to Kentucky Kingdom on Thursday to check out the progress toward Saturday's opening. Here's what she saw.

    

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Joseph Lord is the online managing editor for WFPL.
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