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[shavethewhales]

I think that clearing is simply a backstage service road. It connects the back of the park to some of the key backstage areas and the main road. It's massive due to the amount of grading required to make it passable for large trucks. Guessing this will become a primary haul route for the park for many back of house things. I also originally thought it was too huge to just be BOH, but the satellite view makes it clearer.

I'm wondering what they needed the flat area for to the west of PK, but that is probably also a new back of house area for things like landscaping greenhouses, storage, or whatever. If this is going to be a coaster, it looks like it will be sandwiched between PK and wildfire. Since they are now clear cutting all the trees around coasters, this is probably a good thing.

I don't think they will expand the park much more beyond the area they have now. It's already as large as most parks. You can't get too big or it's burdensome on guests to get around to everything, especially with the hills.

[Wildfire]

I completely disagree about them not expanding much beyond the current area.  They have announced $500 million over the next 10 years, of which only $100 million is for the resort.  Also SDC is one of the smaller parks by acreage.  It is roughly only 35% of the size of Dollywood, 15% the size of Cedar Point or Kings Island, and much smaller than most of the Orlando Parks

[legoerosion]

Correct... I wasn't meaning that you could see them in the photo. But if this photo was taken after they were placed, what general area would they be in?

I see, my bad for misunderstanding what you were asking.



I as to the speculation about the next expansion, I can see them moving M&C to the clearing near OR and using that spot next to FiTH/Mystic river as a decent expansion. But I personally think that the next project after this project will be where the original FiTH was and that back area.

[ColaSDC]

[/quote]And with a whole new area they would need to move some employees or up the pay to hire some more workers.
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It's never bad to pay employees more