Wahooz expands into the great indoors

Teya Vitu//October 26, 2016//

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Wahooz Family Fun Zone is adding an Indoor Adventure Park. Photo courtesy of Wahooz Family Fun Zone.

Family entertainment is going indoors at the Wahooz Family Fun Zone in Meridian with the Nov. 3 opening of the 70,000-square-foot Indoor Adventure Park.

The indoor park is the latest addition to the 26-acre, family-owned Roaring Springs Water Park-Wahooz-Pinz Bowling Center complex that has evolved since two ownership groups first opened the neighboring Roaring Springs and Boondocks in 1999.

“The real inspiration for the indoor park is Idaho weather,” said Tiffany Quilici, marketing director at Roaring Springs, Wahooz and Pinz. “This really rounds out our calendar to provide entertainment all year round.”

The Indoor Adventure Park attractions include The Twister, The Frog Hopper, Sky Trail Ropes Course, Clip ‘N Climb, Ballocity, Bumper Cars, Laser Maze Challenge and Face Place Photo Studio.

Climb Bright Lights is on one of the attractions at the new Indoor Adventure Park at Wahooz Family Fun Zone. Photo courtesy of Wahooz Family Fun Zone.

The indoor park idea dates from 2010, two years after Roaring Springs owners the Tom Nicholson Family and CEO/partner Pat Morandi bought Boondocks and renamed it Wahooz.

Pinz and the Indoor Adventure Park originally were planned to be built at the same time, as the facilities are joined together, but the recession put a hold on the indoor park, though the 24-alley bowling center opened in 2012.

The Indoor Adventure Park cost more than $3 million and was designed by BRS Architects of Boise. The Russell Corp. of Meridian was the general contractor.