This is the last weekend Cypress Gardens Adventure Park will be open until March. The park in Winter Haven closes Monday and will reopen in March without its ride or animal attractions, but with an expanded water park attraction. The move is being taken to ensure the park's long-term presence. About 200 employees will be laid off temporarily and will learn in the next few weeks whether they will be retained, park officials said last week. ...more

November 16, 2008

Cypress Gardens Adventure Park will close Monday and reopen in March without its ride or animal attractions. ...more

November 11, 2008

Last year, Cypress Gardens Adventure Park suffered the dry spells of early fall when as few as 50 to 200 visitors attended on weekdays. ...more

July 29, 2008

Facing the prospects of drawing as few as 50 to 200 guests on September weekdays, Cypress Gardens Adventure Park will open only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in September in an effort to improve its long-range prospects, a park spokeswoman said Monday. ...more

July 28, 2008

TAMPA - A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park to a Mulberry-based land development firm. After hearings Thursday, Judge John Laney III of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Georgia approved the sale of the Winter Haven park to Land South Holdings LLC for $16.8 million. ...more

September 28, 2007

Cypress Gardens Adventure Park is balancing beauty and thrills, owner Kent Buescher says, to move successfully beyond a bankruptcy brought on by three hurricanes to a future as America's best entertainment value. ...more

September 4, 2007