Midwesterners in the hunt for chlorinated enjoyable have a brand new vacation spot within the Chicago suburbs.
Nice Wolf Lodge Illinois, the seventeenth outpost in a sequence of Northwoods-themed indoor water park resorts throughout North America, has opened in Gurnee, the identical city (positioned about 40 miles north of downtown Chicago) the place you may discover Six Flags Nice America.
The brand new Nice Wolf occupies house as soon as belonging to a different water park, the now-defunct KeyLime Cove. However because the Chicago Tribune factors out, the place has been fully redone, from the topmost tipping bucket to the deepest plunge pool.
As at different Nice Wolf Lodge resorts, the indoor water park at this one is big (80,000 sq. toes) and stored perpetually heated to a just-shy-of-uncomfortable 84 levels Fahrenheit, offering guests to Chicago a purpose to pack a swimsuit in wintertime. A purpose aside from scientific madness, that’s.
Options embrace slides, a wave pool, a lazy river, a multilevel aqua play construction, and, outdoors, a pool surrounded by cabanas for the hotter months.
On dry land, children can tackle a ropes course, go bowling or mini {golfing}, play an interactive wands-and-wizards sport, and win prizes within the arcade.
All of that’s according to different Nice Wolf properties, too. The place the Gurnee resort goals to tell apart itself is in its eating choices, rising above the same old buffets and sub-DiGiorno pizzas.
These are nonetheless accessible in Illinois, thoughts you, however there’s additionally Barnwood, a farm-to fork restaurant that makes use of domestically grown elements. The handsomely rough-hewn eating room has a glass wall overlooking the water park. Looks like a great spot for folks on a date evening to share a bottle of wine whereas savoring romantic views of cannonballs.
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The resort has 414 visitor rooms with a spread of sizes and types. Some have bunk beds and kid-size log cabins.
Nightly charges begin round $199 for 4 individuals, and that features water park entry. Examine availability or make a reservation on the Nice Wolf Lodge web site.
Click on right here for our slideshow function on the ups and downs of a Nice Wolf keep.
