![]() The new aquatic playground will be 20,000 square feet larger and tricked out with a lazy river and a dozen slides, including the resort company’s signature Alberta Falls, a speedy ride with high banking turns and steep pitches, and Coyote Canyon, a tube slide that funnels passengers into a spinning vortex. “It had a lot of what’s in line with our brand - oversized rooms, the big lobby - but the water park wasn’t as big as it should have been,” said Great Wolf development director Bryson Heezen. Great Wolf bought the nearly decade-old, 414-room KeyLime Cove indoor water park resort this year. The upcoming Illinois outpost, a relatively easy drive for the Chicago and Milwaukee markets, is slated to launch mid-2018. ![]() Plans call for opening a Great Wolf Lodge in Minnesota this year and another outside Atlanta in the spring. The Gurnee property marks the 17th indoor water park resort for the company, which recently relocated its headquarters from Madison, Wis., to Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Great Wolf got its start 20 years ago in Wisconsin Dells and has been growing at an impressive clip. “When the weather is nice in the Midwest, people want to be outside, and the outdoor pool is definitely something guests said they wanted,” Great Wolf spokesman Jason Lasecki said. The $60 million-plus project calls for transforming the tropical-themed KeyLime Cove indoor water park resort into the Northwoods-style Great Wolf Lodge Illinois, featuring an expanded, 80,000-square-foot indoor water park with a wave pool, 50 percent more slides than its predecessor, a new outdoor pool and “several” water attractions still in development. Great Wolf Resorts recently revealed new details and the first renderings of its water park lodge opening next year near Six Flags Great America in Gurnee.
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