Adventuredome, Indoor amusement park in Las Vegas Strip, US
Adventuredome is a five-acre indoor amusement park at Circus Circus in Winchester, Nevada, covered by a dome of 8,615 pink-tinted glass panes set in a teal space frame. Inside, a yellow lattice tower with a toothed track rises beside red-brown artificial rockwork, and a white steel framework carries a dark flume channel and a tan boat-shaped ride vehicle with a blue and yellow striped top edge.
Circus Circus Enterprises announced the park on August 26, 1992, and it opened as Grand Slam Canyon on August 23, 1993, built on an 18-inch-thick deck 18 feet above a parking lot at a cost of $90 million. After visitors asked for more to do, it closed for 45 days in 1994 to add $15 million in attractions. It was renamed Adventuredome in 1997.
The park's name comes from its 1997 renaming, when Grand Slam Canyon became Adventuredome. The original Grand Canyon theme survives in the Canyon Blaster coaster, the only ride left from the 1993 opening. Eight animatronic dinosaurs once stood among the rides, some spitting water at visitors, until they were removed.
The park sits inside the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino and opens year-round with controlled indoor temperature. The dome protects visitors from extreme summer heat and allows operation even during outdoor wind or rain.
The dome uses more than 8600 glass panels, each weighing around 300 pounds (136 kg), held by a teal space frame. This design reduces the need for internal support columns and lets rides swing freely through the space.
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