Ringling Bros. Circus began in 1884, at the very site of today’s Circus World Museum. The 1880s, an era long ago – the Statue of Liberty goes up, as well as the Brooklyn Bridge. The Civil War had ended only two decades earlier.
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The Dells Is Itself a Good Deal
Wisconsin Dells Deals and Coupons To Enhance Your Next Trip To The Waterpark Capital Of The World
Dells coupons and Dells deals? Well, you’re getting a deal just by choosing the Dells. So, you’re off to a running start when it comes to savings.
Let’s illustrate by using lodging at Great Wolf Lodge as an example. There are eleven locations around the country, which provides an opportunity to see what a value Wisconsin Dells provides. My kids have been to Great Wolf in both the Dells and the Poconos (Eastern PA). Thought it would be interesting to compare rates at the two, for a particular Tuesday night in the Spring. Same suite – Poconos: $280, Dells: $150!
Save Time and Get Great Wisconsin Dells Deals
Dwelling on both coupons and Dells deals is tempting in an age of couponing shows where a mom hands over a pile of coupons and maybe $16 for four hundred bucks worth of groceries. Of course, before the filming starts they’ve spent days and days finding coupons, sorting coupons and strategizing. I feel like that’s why we want to get away to places like the Dells to leave all that drudge work behind.
At DellsDeals.com, we’re working to locate the deals and offers in one place to save you time AND money!
The Dells in Wisconsin: Hot Spot For Cool Water
Came across one of those ubiquitous internet ‘top tens’ today – top ten waterparks in the world in this case. This was a pretty substantial website however, some three million visitors a month.Well, two of the top four. . . in the world . . . were in the Dells : Mt. Olympus and Kalahari. Another one of the top four is newly built, near a couple of the tallest buildings in the world; near a course that hosts a major worldwide golf tournament.
Wisconsin Dells New For 2012
Over three acres are covered by a huge new outdoor water fortress, the ‘Lost City of Atlantis’. An estimated $3 millon has been invested in this new Mt. Olympus attraction. This six story behemoth, for all ages, includes a monster dump bucket and seven, count ‘em seven, waterslides. Included is a family tube slide, a boomerang slide, slides for children and a geyser shooting water as high as a ten story building.
Dells Waterparks Round Up
So, what’s with the many ‘largests’ in the US claims? Well, one’s the largest outdoor, another the biggest indoor/outdoor, yet another the largest waterpark resort. Having been to them all, our view is big is big, and that’s good enough for us!
A Bucket List Of Memorable Dells Attractions
Dells Area Ziplines
Wilderness Canyon Zip Line Canopy Tour
Whether you like the adrenalin rush, are determined to conquer a fear of heights, or just want a new thrill to long remember, this zipline attraction aims to please. The zipline has 6 towers and 5 “zips” some sixty feet up. Each zip is longer, higher and faster. The overall span is longer than eight football fields. When you’re in the parking lot at Gkacier Canyon Lodge and you look up at the zipline, it’s deceiving in that you see only a small portion of it. It’s reassuring to know that the guides are from the largest operator/ builder of ziplines in the country. $45 per person for resort guests and $65 per person for the general public. (800) 867-9453.
Bigfoot Zipline
For many of us, a brand new thrill – once in a lifetime for many, ‘zipping’ along, snugly strapped into a harness that is attached by pulley to the lines, Gloves and helmet-clad, taught and assisted by a carbineer. Zip from platform to platform anywhere from 10 to 100 feet in the air.
Big Foot features over 5000 feet of ziplines through thirty acres of woods.
There’s even a double ‘race’ zipline. Also, 2 lines go through the woods, 4 ziplines traverse Sasquatch Lake. Six ziplines for $89. (608) BIG-FOOT
Eco Zip Line Canopy Tour
This new zipline adventure by Vertical Illusions zips off the top of a five hundred foot bluff – Chimney Rock. There are fifteen lines traversing the area’s tree canopy.
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The Point of No Return Waterslide at Noahs Ark
‘Ten stories up, 5 seconds down’ is the motto for this water slide, more a ‘water drop’. Some never do reach ‘the point of no return’ – I’ve seen the anxiety-ridden turn back numerous times. But, If you like the feeling of your stomach up in your throat, then this is the ride (read: freefall!)for you. So steep that you’re weightless for a bit. Disconcerting as your back momentarily separates from the slide on the way down – but of course exhilerating as a result, and memorable!
Roller Coaster Into the Abyss Mt Olympus
Zipping around the roller coaster at Mt. Olympus is certainly exhilerating, until you find that you’re aimed right at a black hole – what is actually a tunnel under the parking lot! Disorienting, and a riot as a result! Supposedly those cosmic black holes let nothing escape their grasp. At Mt. Olympus, trust that you will emerge again, into the very welcome daylight.
Wave Pools, Indoors or Out
Poseidon’s Rage opened at Mt.Olympus in ’07, and became the largest wave pool at the Dells. Eight giant concrete bulkheads are filled with water, which is released all at once to create what starts out as a 9′ wave! At the far end, it dissipates to a gentle ripple. From one extreme to the other, there’s a level for children of any age. Poseidon himself is everpresent on a giant mural, and he looks none too pleased!
The Big Kahuna at Noah’s Ark had been the largest, and it’s still a great source of fun, whether you’re diving under the wave or perfecting the timing necessary for a little body surfing. There’s enough power in these engineering marvels that I’m as good at getting water blown up my nostrils as I am out in the ocean. You’ll probably be more talented in the face of such aqua force.
Wilderness Resort has an indoor wave pool that has entertained my kids for many hours over many seasons. It’s fairly self contained at the deeper end, you feel like you’re sloshing around in a giant bathtub.
Though not really a wave pool, the Flow Rider at Kalahari mimics a surfing experience. Your turn lasts awhile if you can stay in the flow of water jetting upward. Fall off to the side and you rather unceremoniously tumble to the bottom. It’s tough enough that when a kid masters it, it’s pretty amazing.
The Mir Space Station – “мир -/mir/ – peace, world”
I’ve been lucky enough to see both the Space Shuttle and the Mir Space Station close up. Two of the dominant vehicles in space travel late in the latter century. Not too surprising that I saw the Space Shuttle at Cape Canaveral. And, although I’ve been to centers of Russian culture like St. Petersburg and Moscow, I got inside the Mir at . . . Wisconsin Dells!
The Dells’ Ducks may be quintessential Americana, part of a heroic WW2 war effort. Lest we forget, the Russians were our allies, out of necessity in that War. Later, the Space Race, part of the Cold War.
Yes, Tommy Bartlett landed the 20 ton, 40+ ft long Mir in the Dells in ’97, probably in part to satisfy a Russian need for hard currency at the time. They were satisfied to the tune of a million dollars, it is rumored, at the time.
His acquisition was sheer genius in a way -.your kids go to the Dells filled with thoughts of wave pools and water slides, and when their guard is down, you sneak them over to ‘Tommy Bartlett Exploratory’ to see the Mir, and they get a history lesson! Sneaky!
So, on the Ducks you can feel a little like our troops in WWII, and then, while still at the Dells, a little like a cosmonaut in the Mir Space Station.
