Snow tubing — in Florida? Get ready for the state’s first alpine park
Florida, you want snow? You got it.
The Sunshine State is getting its first snow park. Yup, you read that right.
Snowcat Ridge is set to open in Dade City in November 2020, so start brushing up your tubing skills.
The 58-acre venue will feature a 60-foot-tall, 400-foot-long “mountain” with a so called magic carpet lift conveyer system seen in water parks.
Take that, Aspen.
Visitors will be provided with single, tandem and six-person rubber tubes to slide down, according to the website. There’s also a bunny hill for miniature people.
CEO Benjamin Nagengast, who also runs TreeHoppers Aerial Adventure Park nearby, said in a statement that Snowcat Ridge will be “unlike anything anyone else has seen before in the Sunshine State.”
Right near the slope is 10,000 square foot play dome, filled with real, live (man-made) snow to build snowmen or snow castles or do whatever else you want to do with it.
After all the activities, get in a little après action at the Alpine Village, complete with bonfire, hot chocolate and fir trees everywhere. Then grab a light show.
The best part about living in Florida? After visiting this winter wonderland, you can drive to the beach the very next day.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Pasco County park will be operate on a “weather-dependent schedule,” up to 120 days a year.
If you can wait a few more years, the Miami-Dade County Commission approved plans for the estimated $4 billion American Dream Miami megamall, which would include, among its many over the top amenities, a ski slope. But that one is set to be indoors.
This story was originally published December 18, 2019 at 1:27 PM.
