Lagoon Amusement Park has set the evening of Saturday, October 3, as the moment it will finally reveal its plans for a new attraction. The Farmington park has spent months teasing an entirely new experience for its 2027 season, and the countdown to that announcement is now official.
A Reveal Date After Months of Teasers
According to FOX 13 News Utah, Lagoon plans to debut a groundbreaking new ride at the park in July 2027, per a media release, and will announce the attraction's identity on October 3. The park has described the coming addition as an entirely new experience featuring innovative design and technology, though specifics remain under wraps. Mid-September social media teasers from Lagoon urged fans to save the date for the reveal, according to the Lagoon History Project, which hinted that the ride may be revealed October 3.
Jet Star 2 closed permanently in 2025, after debuting at Lagoon in 1976.
Clearing Room Next to the Old Coaster Site
Fans watching the area have already spotted new clues. Per FOX 13 News Utah, a racing-themed banner appeared at the former Jet Star 2 site, fueling speculation about the 2027 attraction's theme. The station also noted that the Flying Aces attraction — the classic Flying Scooter ride once located adjacent to the former Jet Star 2 site — was taken down, freeing up land next to the back half of the former Jet Star 2 footprint.
Flying Aces may not be gone for good. Screamscape reported that the ride may be refurbished or moved elsewhere in the park. Its removal freed land next to the former Jet Star 2 footprint.
A Pattern of Ambitious, Homegrown Builds
Lagoon has a track record that makes the secrecy around this project believable. For Primordial, Lagoon combined in-house design with outside vendors, according to ThrillZing. That approach produced Primordial, which opened in September 2023 after eight years of in-house development and went on to win the 2024 IAAPA Brass Ring Award for Best New Product, per KSL's coverage of the park's engineering ambitions. The ride combines a 4D interactive dark ride with a coaster layout inside an artificial mountain.
Lagoon's new 2026 attraction, Nutcracker, is a roughly 135-foot-tall S&S Screamin' Swing that launches riders up to 150 feet in the air at nearly 68 mph. That same stretch of expansion saw Lagoon wind down portions of its long-running Wild Kingdom Train zoo exhibit and rehome its big cats and other animals as it phased out zoo animals in 2025, a shift Hoodline covered at the time.
The Nation's Largest Family-Owned Park
Lagoon's willingness to keep pouring money into custom rides stems partly from its unusual ownership structure. It's recognized as the largest family-owned amusement park in the United States, according to research compiled by The Mystery Of Utah History.
The park's roots stretch back to 1886, when it opened as the Lake Park Bathing Resort on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Receding shorelines forced founder Simon Bamberger to relocate the resort inland to its present Farmington site in 1896, where he bought seven acres of marsh and excavated a boating lake, according to Salt Lake Magazine. Lagoon still operates its 1921 wooden Roller Coaster, designed by John A. Miller.
With the October 3 reveal on the calendar, Lagoon will announce the attraction's identity. A racing-themed banner at the former Jet Star 2 site has fueled speculation, but the exact ride model — whether a coaster, a hybrid attraction, or something entirely different — remains an open question until the park's announcement.
