Central Virginia's Largest and Most Exciting Independence Day Celebration is at Kings Dominion July 2, 3 and 4

DOSWELL, Va., June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kings Dominion will celebrate America's Independence Day with three expanded installments of the nightly fireworks display, Night of Fire, on July 2, 3 and 4.  Celebrating over 35 years of family fun and excitement, the Mid-Atlantic's premier amusement park is proud to salute the 'Stars and Stripes' and everything they stand for!

To add to the weekend Kings Dominion is offering free admission to our Military personnel with the "Tribute to the Armed Forces" program.  All active duty, retired and former members of the armed forces will receive free admission to Kings Dominion on Sunday July 3 and Monday July 4.  Proper ID or discharge paperwork is required and family members can receive special discounted admission.

"Snoopy's Starlight Spectacular," a million dollar nighttime walk-through light and sound experience featuring Snoopy and the PEANUTS™ gang continues to light up the nights at Kings Dominion beginning at dusk around 8:45pm.

Designed using a dazzling mixture of low energy and high efficiency LED lighting, this immersive light and sound spectacular is located around the park's Eiffel Tower, along the Center Walkway to The Grove area, and features more than 1.2 million LED lights. The colorful lights and spotlights adorn the Eiffel Tower and surrounding trees up to 80 feet in height.  The entire experience is accented by vibrant animated and stationary light displays, vivid theatrical lighting and other cutting edge special effects, all orchestrated to a custom designed audio soundtrack.

Kings Dominion and Water Works waterpark are open daily until through September 5.  Kings Dominion is a 400-acre amusement park and waterpark, that is home to over 60 total rides, slides, live shows and attractions.  The park features one of the largest roller coaster collections on the East-Coast, with 15 World-Class scream-machines, two children's areas, and Water Works, a 20-acre water playground.  Kings Dominion is located at exit 98 on I-95, north of Richmond.  For more information about Kings Dominion and complete operating hours, please visit www.KingsDominion.com.

Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (NYSE: "FUN") is a publicly traded partnership headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio.  The Company, which owns and operates 11 amusement parks, six outdoor water parks, one indoor water park and five hotels, is one of the largest regional amusement park operators in the world.  Its parks are located in Ohio, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Toronto, Ontario.  Cedar Fair also operates the Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park in Gilroy, California under a management contract.  Cedar Fair's flagship park, Cedar Point, has been consistently voted the "Best Amusement Park in the World" in a prestigious annual poll conducted by Amusement Today newspaper.

SOURCE Kings Dominion