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Photo: Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park Resort and Scott Enterprises, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Another great place to take the kids. Located immediately off of I-90 on Peach Street, this indoor waterpark operates year round.
Splash Lagoon Indoor Waterpark Resort is a large Polynesian-themed indoor water park located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The park is approximately 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2). It features nine water slides, two hot tubs, one large activity pool, a five-story activity tree house play structure, a toddler play pool, a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) wave pool, a FlowRider, and a 6,500-square-foot (600 m2) arcade. The resort is connected to a Wyndham Garden, Hawthorn Suites, and a Comfort Inn, along with Quaker Steak and Lube restaurant & bowling alley.
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Teams representing Mercyhurst University, most of which compete in the PSAC for now. Five of its teams are either de jure or de facto Division I members—women's bowling, men's and women's ice hockey, and men's and women's water polo. The rest of the Lakers' teams will move to Division I in July 2024, with the university joining the Northeast Conference.
The Erie Philharmonic is an orchestra that plays a variety of concerts at the Warner Theatre on State Street, which is on the National Register of Historical Places for its Art Deco style. Tickets can be ordered online, and they go well in advance.
Erie's oldest theater group, producing around 12 shows per year. Musicals, comedies, dramas, concerts, and youth theater are common events. Shows run Thursdays through Sundays as a general rule