Super Scarywood
BILL BULEY | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 15 years, 3 months AGO
Bill Buley covers the city of Coeur d'Alene for the Coeur d’Alene Press. He has worked here since January 2020, after spending seven years on Kauai as editor-in-chief of The Garden Island newspaper. He enjoys running. | September 18, 2010 9:00 PM
Silverwood Theme Park is spending $1 million to scare the hell out of you.
And rest assured, said Nancy DiGiammarco, Silverwood spokeswoman. You should be afraid. Very afraid.
"It's beyond anything you can imagine," she said Friday.
Something wicked is coming in October to the theme park 15 miles north of Coeur d'Alene, and it's called Scarywood.
In its first year in 2009, it attracted more than 20,000 visitors into a supernatural world of ghouls and ghosts and vampires. This year will be even more ghastly, more horrifying, more bloody, with more mayhem and madness.
Silverwood officials believe it could double last year's attendance.
"Last year we went out there, tried it, created very quickly some attractions that were extremely well received," DiGiammarco said. "We want to see things taken to the next level and that's what we're doing."
Silverwood brought in technicians and specialists from the Midwest who for the past month have been transforming the museum building into "Blood Bayou, where "you'll be scared with every twist and turn of this diabolical scream machine of a haunt."
Scarywood will again have Terror Canyon Trail and Zombiewood Express.
"Scarywood will boast three bone-chilling haunts as well as scare zones scattered throughout the park with unforeseen haunts, creatures and ghouls concealed in fog and strategically placed to keep our guests on the edge of panic and fright," according to a press release.
General admission is $24.99 for all ages, but children 12 and younger are discouraged from entering.
They'd likely have nightmares.
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