Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park expects to open a $6.3 million, five-acre water park in April.San Francisco marked 1967 as the “Summer of Love.”
Around Chattanooga, 2013 may be known as the “Summer of SoakYa.”
That’s the whimsical, rhyming name that Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park picked for the $6.3 million, five-acre water park it will open this summer.
“It’s a spirited play on our name,” said Talley Green, one of the trio of women who run the 88-year-old family park. “We took the end of Lake Winnie and made it SoakYa.”
SoakYa will include an Adventure River, a beach lagoon, flume body slides, enclosed tube slides, a splash park, a lilypad attraction, a zero-entry beach (marked by a gradual slope into the water), covered and uncovered lounge seating, new retail and concessions and changing rooms with lockers.