Georgia Magazine - June 2018 - 20
Slide into summer COURTESY GREAT WOLF LODGE all year long! Great Wolf Lodge Georgia brings the fun to LaGrange BY VICTORIA SCHARF DECASTRO COURTESY GREAT WOLF LODGE COURTESY GREAT WOLF LODGE A Top: Great Wolf guests enjoy an exhilarating rush on a tandem tube ride. Center: A rendering shows what the Grand Lobby at the lodge will look like. Above: MagiQuest takes kids and their "magic" wands on a quest throughout the resort. The adventure includes befriending pixies and battling an evil dragon and the Goblin King. 20 new destination has been added to the list of places for families to play and stay in Georgia. Recently opened 70 miles south of Atlanta in LaGrange, Great Wolf Lodge Georgia is a 500,000-squarefoot indoor water park, resort and conference center. It features a range of recreational activities and lodging under one enormous roof. Here, families can enjoy a variety of water rides and attractions year-round at the resort's 84-degree indoor water park. Highlights include a multilevel, interactive water-fort treehouse with a gargantuan tipping water bucket; a tall water slide; a lazy river; a wave pool; and zero-depth-entry pools. Admission to the water park is exclusive to the resort's guests and included with overnight reservations in the 457-room, on-site lodge. Tagged as "the new flagship resort" for the Great Wolf Lodge brand, the lodge is the 16th resort operated by Great Wolf Resorts Inc., a chain of indoor water parks headquartered in Madison, Wis. In addition to the water park, guests can enjoy the Great Wolf Adventure Park, a 40,000-square-foot center featuring a ropes course, indoor miniature golf, mini bowling and more; MagiQuest, a live-action, interactive game in which guests use magic wands to defeat dragons and goblins throughout the resort; Story Time, a nightly activity for children by the fireplace in the Grand Lobby; and Camp H.O.W.L. (Habitat of Wild Learning), a multifunctional space that offers activities families can enjoy together during the daytime and transforms into a parent-free, secure club with supervised activities for children in the evening. Several restaurants and food outlets are on-site, including Campfire Kitchen, Freshwoods Market, Timbers More online at www.georgiamagazine.org GEORGIA MAGAZINE