Carowinds to open adults-only pool, swim-up bar

Ages 21+

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🌴 Carowinds is building an adults-only pool and swim-up bar at its water park

Carowinds’ Carolina Harbor water park opens in late May. This year, it is adding an adults-only swim-up pool. (File photo; courtesy of Carowinds)

Grown-ups taking the kids to Carowinds this summer will be able to unwind in an adults-only oasis at its water park — a place where guests ages 21+ can lounge, sip drinks at a swim-up bar and play cornhole.

Carowinds hasn’t announced the new attraction, known as the “Carolina Harbor Shore Club.” But Carowinds’ regional PR manager, Chris Foshee, shared the details on an episode this week of The Coaster101 Podcast, which specializes in theme park news.

Foshee said:

We are doing a little secret attraction-building in the Carolina Harbor section of the water park.

We are going to be opening the Carolina Harbor Shore Club, which is going to be an exclusive pool and lounge area for ages 21 and up, so you bring your wife out there, you got the swim-up bar, you got plenty of lounging areas, and then there’s a little lawn area with cornhole and all the lawn games.