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The attraction’s Gators, Ghosts and Goblins event debuted last weekend, a few days after Hurricane Milton came ashore on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Most of its Halloween decor was already in place as the storm approached.
“We had to tear it all down for the hurricane, except for the haunt. It’s all got plywood around it, so it was fine,” said Mark McHugh, president and CEO of Gatorland.
After the storm — which prompted a three-day shutdown of the attraction —– went out to sea, Gatorland employees concentrated on cleaning up and reconstructing the Halloween feel in time for Saturday’s opening.
“We have a lot of displays. It’s all over the park, going back towards the train station… you got the cryptid area there, billboards all over the place,” McHugh said. “All the pumpkins … we didn’t get them all down, and they were scattered around all this half of the park. We had to go find pumpkins on Thursday.”
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